Apple is now registered as the owner of the iCloud.com domain and will take full responsibility for the domain. When the Swedish firm Xcerion was still listed as the registrant for the iCloud.com domain, they used it as their online file-storage service.
The iCloud.com domain still redirects to the Xcerion’s website as of today. But Xcerion had changed the name of the service to CloudMe by which they registered a new domain cloudme.com to support it.
Apple 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 at San Fransisco on June 6, Monday.
The 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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