Apple buys iCloud.com domain for $4.5 million

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Submission + - Apple buys iCloud.com domain for $4.5 million (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28, 2011 @01:11AM

An anonymous reader writes: Well this is certainly interesting. A report on late Wednesday night relayed that Apple recently purchased the iCloud.com domain from Xcerion for a cool $4.5 million. Indeed, iCloud.com now re-directs to CloudMe.com. With such a hefty price tag, Apple clearly must have serious plans for the cloud in the pipeline...

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