Check this Out!

BiT · Mar 21, 2006

This makes the iphone rumor more beleivable, you wont belevie this!
go to your address bar and type "www.iphone.org" and seee what it comes up as. And whois shows iphone.org registered to Apple Computer, Inc.

PowerBookG4 · Mar 21, 2006

this has been posted many times before, but the domain iphone.org has been registered to apple for years, so it does not mean that we are going to get one necessarily, just means that apple had at one time a plan to create one, they may still have a plan to create one but just because this site exist does not make it a definite that we are going to see one soon.

BiT · Mar 21, 2006

Last Updated On:14-Nov-2005 14:59:48 UTC
Expiration Date:16-Dec-2006 04:59:33 UTC

check the activity tho.

or it may be like microsoft did, for their oragami, which maybe was for the ROKR

EDIT-XTREEM · Mar 21, 2006

Apple does own iphone.org... they would have also bought iphone.com and so on if they were really working on something...

BiT · Mar 21, 2006

iphone.com isnt even available.

EDIT-XTREEM · Mar 21, 2006

but apple would buy it.. they always do

BiT · Mar 21, 2006

they probably would offer the person owning it a great price too.

EDIT-XTREEM · Mar 21, 2006

yup
and anyway, '.org'?

Thats orginization, right?

iphone orginization...

BiT · Mar 21, 2006

lol, yea it means organization.

EDIT-XTREEM · Mar 22, 2006

S, why would apple register that then?

BiT · Mar 22, 2006

maybe it was the only one available at the time.

Smartz · Mar 28, 2006

if apple was planning on being a carrier, as in owning the complete delivery of telephone services via an iphone then .org might be more appropriate.

to_tough_to_die · Mar 28, 2006

EDIT-XTREEM said:
S, why would apple register that then?

Remember the JenniCam (I know I'm going back a bit)? When she went on Letterman, he plugged Jennicam.net. Jenny (owner of the site) only owned Jennicam.org and Jennicam.com, so when viewers checked it out, a porn website with a giant "THANKS DAVE" on the front page greeted them.

D3v1L80Y · Mar 28, 2006

EDIT-XTREEM said:
S, why would apple register that then?

Companies register multiple domains (.com, .org, .net, etc) for many reasons.
One of the biggest reasons is to avoid confusion with other companies' sites. They buy up names that they feel that a competitor may or may not use, which could be construed as being from their namesake.

For example, Apple would buy up sites that start with "i" (iphone.com for one) so another company couldn't use it and cause confusion or lead a person into thinking that their site had anything to do with Apple when it really doesn't.

Apple could also sell that domain to someone for use and make a profit off of it. Its called "internet real estate". Lots of companies and people do this and make decent profit from it.

Bottom line is, just because Apple owns a domain called iphone.com doesn't mean they are doing anything with it or that they are developing any new device or hardware.

macmini3399 · Mar 28, 2006

check out iphone.com, not by apple.