GigaOM is reporting that Apple has purchased iCloud.com for $4.5 million, from Xcerion, an online storage company, but has since rebranded their service to CloudMe. The domain still redirects to CloudMe.com at this time. Here’s an excerpt from the report: My source, who is familiar with the company, says that Xcerion has sold the domain […]
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Report Claims Apple Purchased iCloud.com Domain for $4.5 Million

Apr 28th 2011 by

002726-icloud.jpgGigaOM is reporting that Apple has purchased iCloud.com for $4.5 million, from Xcerion, an online storage company, but has since rebranded their service to CloudMe. The domain still redirects to CloudMe.com at this time.
Here’s an excerpt from the report:

My source, who is familiar with the company, says that Xcerion has sold the domain to Apple for about $4.5 million. Xcerion hasn’t responded to my queries as yet. At the time of writing, the Whois database showed Xcerion as the owner of iCloud.

This news has surfaced only weeks after a another report claimed that Apple has completed the server backend work on their rumored, cloud-based music storage service. Currently Apple is said to be wrangling the music labels to get them on board with the service. If Apple did actually purchase this domain, it safe to say the service will be called iCloud.

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