Malik reports, “My source, who is familiar with the company, says that Xcerion has sold the domain to Apple for about $4.5 million.”
Pretty smart to get “CloudMe.com” in case their best customer – Apple – ever decides to expand the “Me” brand. Like as not, just perhaps, they’ll have another $4.5 million or so laying around in a year or so…
Un-fing-believable. 4.5 Mil? With that kind of money, Apple should be cybersquating every concievable combination of the iXXXXX.com names? iFart iHope iWish iMe iYou iWhat iEyeCaptain……… For 4.5 million they could cybersquat 562,000 domain names. I guess if you are lucky enough to have registered a name that Apple wants, at the time you are a rich person.
Um.. Homer.. did you read the article? It was not owned by a cybersquatting “person” it was owned by a commercial business who was using it to make money. I don’t know what their earnings are however 4.5 million may not necessarily be a huge amount for the company, nice, undoubtedly but if they were already making revenue off the name, you have to factor in what the cost for giving up their name was.
.Mac had to change because of the iOS devices, however MobileMe is a big step down. Sounds like a self-centered adolescent. “The cloud” is immediately on everyone’s lips, and should remain in use like “the net” or “the web”. $4.5M sounds like a lot for a string of six letters, yet Job’s has paid Apple Corps a lot more just because he told the truth about where he got the idea for the company’s name.
As for Apple Corps, the payout was because there had been an agreement Apple Computer/Inc wouldn’t go into music, not because of the name itself.
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