Apple owns “iSlate” web domain [U]

Dec 24th 2009
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(Updated with trademark info) Apple tonight was discovered through WHOIS records to have acquired the domain iSlate.com (currently inactive) two years ago. The company is known to have picked up the domain in 2007 and used the registrar MarkMonitor to keep the ownership secret. However, MacRumors has discovered that Apple’s name was exposed for a few weeks until the identity was suppressed again….

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