Apple seizes 16 web domains via ICANN complaint

Christmas PD5FM $10 discount“When you own domain names associated with the trademarks of a large company, more often than not, they’re going to file a complaint with the ICANN UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy),” MG Siegler reports for TechCrunch. “And more often than not, they’re going to win control of the name. Such was the case yesterday with 16 names related to Apple that one man happened to own.”

Here’s a full list of the domains Apple now owns with the win:

• blueipod.com
• iphonecheap.com
• iphonetoys.com
• ipodaccessories.info
• ipodkits.com
• ipodsbaratos.com
• macbookpro.biz
• macbookpro.com
• macbookpro.net
• macbookpro.org
• macfriend.com
• redipods.com
• macbook.us
• macbookpro.us
• macbooks.us
• macpro.us

Full article here.

[Attribution: MacNN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]

43 Comments

  1. My guess is that the entire set of domain names was given to Apple as a package rather than individual names.

    It is so funny to read the David?Goliath and Hitler remarks about Apple, but those same writers never question the intent of someone getting a domain like Macbookpro.com. I’m sure there was an innocent, legitimate reason for this person to have those site names. Oh how awful of Apple to be so petty.

  2. “Just what is your angle? “

    Well, here’s your sine.
    All I can axis that you coordinate your area with plane and practical points. Or Euler up with illogical limits approaching infinity.

  3. Wikipedia entry on plural possessives:

    When the noun is a normal plural, with an added s, no extra s is added in the possessive; so pens’ caps (where there is more than one pen) is correct rather than pens’s caps.

  4. “Wikipedia entry on plural possessives:”

    As my car mechanic says, “Well, there’s your problem.”

    Alternate grammatical forms have always been acceptable in the English language.

    Want to argue more? I’ll cite thousands of exceptions evidently acceptable in the English language.

    Gross’ or Gross’s?

    Bring it.

  5. Actually, you are only squatting meetmac.com (I went to it).

    Since Apple has been offering “meet your mac” sessions (or something to that effect) for it’s new customers (who purchased One to One), I would actually be surprised if Apple DIDN’T go after your domain.

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