We are seeing recent buzz about could music player, share and service. GigaOM just reported Apple acquiring the domain iCloud.com from Sweden-based company Xcerion.
According to GigaOM:
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.
iCloud.com was a just domain name and a storage-as-a-cloud service owned by Linkoping, Sweden-based desktop-as-a-service company, Xcerion. Xcerion’s iCloud service has just been rebranded to CloudMe, and the company acquired the CloudMe.com domain on April 5, 2011.
Here’s what currently shows up when a WHOIS query is made for iCloud.com:
Registrant:
Xcerion
ATTN ICLOUD.COM
care of Network Solutions
PO Box 459
Drums, PA. US 18222Domain Name: ICLOUD.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Xcerion
ATTN ICLOUD.COM
care of Network Solutions
PO Box 459
Drums, PA 18222
US
570-708-8780
While Apple was working to make MobileMe.com free and buzz is increasing to compete Amazon’s Cloud Locker. Apple’s $1 billion dollar North Carolina data center was recently visited by a local Fox News affiliate, and will be the epicenter for anything related to the cloud. So stay turned.
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