MacRumors is reporting that they have found evidence that Apple bought the iSlate.com domain name back in 2007, presumably to prepare for the launch of the long rumored tablet the company has been working on.
The domain was first bought by a company named Eurobox Ltd. back in October 2004. It was then acquired by Data Docket, Inc. in 2006. Then in 2007 it was handed to registrar MarkMonitor.com, which handles domain name registrations for many companies, Apple amongst them. The name of the actual domain registrant is hidden to prevent anyone from finding out who actually owns the domain.
Then MacRumors uncovered this nugget:
However, after further investigation of the domain name registrant history, it seems Apple’s name was temporarily exposed as the actual owner of “iSlate.com” for several weeks in late 2007. It was changed back within a few weeks, but MacRumors has found the historic record proving Apple ownership of the iSlate.com domain:
iSlate.com currently leads to no website. As we’ve reported, it is widely expected for Apple to announce something along the lines of a tablet computer sometime in 2010, specifically January.
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