iPhone.com acquired by Apple
updated 05:15 pm EDT, Tue July 3, 2007
Apple owns iPhone.com
It has been confirmed that Apple has finally succeeded in purchasing the domain name iPhone.com from Michael Kovatch. Kovatch is something of a domain name profiteer, having himself bought the iPhone.com domain in 1995 before the iPod or even the original iMac. He's also the owner of several other high-profile, domain names like SoccerShop.com, Wine.net, Golf.net, Noc.net, WineOnline.com, Kovo.com, TeeShirt.com, and CyberWine.com. DomainTools reports "Michael said this last week was a very busy one inside of Apple. He was holding out because he truly wanted to use the domain." Traffic to iPhone.com had, obviously, skyrocketed in the last 6 months." The domain is still in Michael’s account under Domains by Proxy but Apple plans to transfer the domain in the next week. The iPhone.com domain reportedly fetched more than $1 million.
woot!
07/03, 05:33pm reply
I love Apple but I'm going to side with the squatter on this one. He had the foresight to buy that domain name in **1995**, he deserves every penny. :)
chas_m
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Joined: Aug 2001
what?
07/03, 06:21pm reply
He owns "kovo.com"? Wow, that's... uhm, very high-profile indeed. What the heck is a kovo?
Jeronimo2000
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Joined: Aug 2001
Kovo
07/03, 10:09pm reply
That's Apple's cloaking device that's being released in 2012.
PookJP
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Joined: Jan 2001
You can tell...
07/04, 11:12am reply
he's being registering these things since the mid-90s. Cyberwine - funny how dated the whole cyber prefix seems these days.
talisker
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