Apple has recently acquired the domain iCloud.net, recovering from a small Chinese company specializing in social networks. A strategy...
Apple has recently acquired the domain iCloud.net, recovering from a small Chinese company specializing in social networks. A strategy of Cupertino, to bring under its control the brands that can be directly reconnected to the company, thus ensuring a better user experience to users and the absence of any confusion.
As reported by TechCrunch, it seems that the negotiations between Apple and the Chinese actually had been going on for some time. The small Asian reality, owner of the domain iCloud.net, had created a social platform, not too crowded. Cupertino, in an attempt to regain control on the mark, he then chose the dialogue paper with the Chinese company for the domain transfer. Apparently, the agreement would be reached a few days ago: by who.is checks, in fact, iCloud.net is now associated with the Californian group.
AppleInsider, based on an anonymous source, claims like Apple may have paid party figures at 1.5 million dollars for the domain, but such a transaction is not currently confirmed by the United States, as well as in China. In any case, it is possible that the apple has acted not only to protect their own interests on the brand, but also to facilitate the user experience: regarded as services on Apple's cloud will be at the address iCloud.com, l ' similar Chinese could cause confusion among users.
It is not the first time, as always refers to AppleInsider, the Cupertino group launches into such transactions. In 2011, for example, Apple seems to have paid out large sums to get the domain iCloud.com from a Swedish company, for an amount initially hypothesized about $ 4.5 million, then close at 5.2 million after this transaction. By buying iCloud.net, Apple would still have concluded all the recovery operations of interest to related domains: The company, in fact, has over 170 themed iCloud addresses, including iCloud.us, iCloudsales.com, myiCloud.net and many others.
