Comments on: Name Change: Could the iPhone Nano Actually be the iPhone Pico? http://isource.com/2008/12/31/name-change-could-the-iphone-nano-actually-be-the-iphone-pico/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:16:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: hac http://isource.com/2008/12/31/name-change-could-the-iphone-nano-actually-be-the-iphone-pico/#comment-30224 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:16:22 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/?p=3046#comment-30224 I’m sorry to say this, but iphonepico.com does not look like one of Apple’s sites. First, it was registered through GoDaddy; Apple has no need to do that. (You can see that here: http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=iphonepico.com) Second, it uses different nameservers than every other redirecting domain that Apple has. Third, while iphonepico.com does redirect to Apple’s iPhone site, it uses a different style of redirection than Apple’s regular redirecting domains. Apple uses professional redirect pages that even if your web browser fails to redirect, will still return a message and a hyperlink to point you in the right direction.

You could test this by typing this command in Terminal:
curl iphone.com
And comparing the result of this to the result of typing:
curl iphonepico.com

The first is known to be Apple’s. You can see the redirection message that it returns. The second, iphonepico.com, returns no similar message. (In fact nothing.)

Sure, none of this tells us that Apple isn’t behind this, but I would guess that it’s a hoax.

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