Searches made through WHOIS on Wednesday revealed that Apple is now registered as the owner of the iCloud.com domain and will take full responsibility for the domain from then on. Last Tuesday, the Swedish firm Xcerion was still listed as the registrant for the iCloud.com domain which they used thus far as their online file-storage service.
Before the rumors surfaced late April that Apple bought the said domain, Xcerion had changed the name of the service to CloudMe by which they registered a new domain cloudme.com to support it.
The iCloud.com domain still redirects to the Xcerion’s website as of today.
During the revelation of what to expect in the Apple WWDC to be held at San Francisco on June 6, Apple uncharacteristically defined iCloud as their “upcoming cloud services offering.” Several executives including the CEO Steve Jobs would talk about this type of service offering during the opening keynote on the upcoming WWDC coming Monday.
There were no details revealed about what the service is about other than its name which was included in the press release that Apple issued last Tuesday.
Some experts say that iCloud will be similar to an online music storage service offered by Apple’s rivals like the Amazon and Google which gives the iPhone users to stream music and videos from their iTunes collection directly from Apple servers to their devices. Apple has signed deals with major music licenses which became the basis of most analysts in speculating that the company will release a music subscription service as part of the iCloud.
The price by which Apple will charge the users for the iCloud service is still unknown although some analysts would say that the company will offer a part of the service to iPhone users for free.
Apple already filed the trademark application for their iCloud service through the European Union Regulators office but iCloud will remain registered under Xcerion in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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