Comments on: Apple Launches iPhone Dev Center. Minus Domain.

By: cryptonym

cryptonym — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:53:18 +0000

I'm sure the devout windows community would love to have the domain in their hands. We should also get zunephonedevcenter.com as well lol

By: G

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:36:18 +0000

OK Val, well, we'll wait and see...

By: valzilla2cool

valzilla2cool — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:30:30 +0000

@G ("as long as we get a decent return.")

The only thing you'll get is a C & D.

By: liquidicity » GoSquared comes to iPhone

liquidicity » GoSquared comes to iPhone — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:52:38 +0000

[...] We ain’t no domain squatters! [...]

By: trendsettr

trendsettr — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:01:36 +0000

I don't know if they were planning on using iphonedevcenter.com.
They don't actually use ipod.com or mac.com, they just use those as redirecting domains to the apple website. I'm guessing that iphonedevcenter would be the redirect to here.

By: G

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:03:27 +0000

We are more than happy to sell it back to Apple, as long as we get a decent return.

I am not sure on the trademark laws when it comes to domains, but I do know that a lot of third party iPhone sites have "iPhone" in their names, and for Apple to take action against us would force them to take action against all of them as well.

Considering the strength of the iPhone community, and the positive impact it has on the iPhone as a product, I don't think Apple would risk taking action against some of their most loyal customers.

So, we'll keep hold of it until Apple offers us an iPhone or two, oh and maybe a MacBook Pro, ooooh and one of those new iMacs...

By: valzilla2cool

valzilla2cool — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:55:53 +0000

@Jeremy ("So maybe you should sell it to them")

They'll get done for trademark infringement.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:45:41 +0000

On the one hand, I think "wow, you sneaky bastards. You didn't have plans to buy it... You're just holding it hostage like any other domain squatter."

And then I think "Apple... sheesh, get it to-ge-ther. Serves you right! That was some oversight there. Kinda like your lack of support for third party iPhone developers who have been trying desperately to add value to YOUR product."

So maybe you should sell it too them, but not for an outrageous amount. Then take 1/2 the $ and pass it to some indie/freeware iPhone application developer who got screwed by Apple in 1.1.1

By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:46:46 +0000

Nice catch! You should really do something useful with it (or sell it to me) although sadly Australia doesn't have iPhones yet so I can't do much with it either at the moment..