
I was going to personally comment on how well Apple, and some random domain holder, is doing these days, but I thought I would simply let the stories speak for themselves. As an Apple stockholder, I can only smile.
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Apple secures iPhone.com domain
By Charles Starrett
Published: Monday, July 2, 2007
Apple has completed the purchase of the iPhone.com domain name from Michael Kovatch for more than $1 million, according to a DomainTools report. iPhone.com now redirects to Apple’s iPhone page at http://www.apple.com/iphone/ . Kovatch, who owns several other high-profile domains such as Wine.net and Golf.net, bought the iPhone.com domain in 1995 in hopes to capitalize on internet telephony, even though the technology to support it did not exist at that time. Exact terms of the sale have not been revealed, but if Apple indeed paid more than $1 million for the domain, it would make the domain name sale one of the richest in history.
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Apple May Have Sold 700,000 IPhones, Beating Estimate (Update7)
By Connie Guglielmo
July 2 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.’s initial iPhone sales may have beat analysts’ top projections, suggesting Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs will reach his goal of making mobile phones as profitable to the company as computers and the iPod.
Shoppers may have bought as many as 700,000 units over the weekend, Goldman Sachs Inc. analyst David Bailey said, twice his projection of 350,000. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster pegged sales at about 500,000, more than twice his original 200,000 estimate.
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“This is a very successfully handled launch,” Munster, based in East Palo Alto, California, said in an interview today. He’s rated Apple’s shares “outperform” since June 2004. “The real sign of success would be what kind of legs this product has in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, we estimate a third of Apple’s sales will be from iPhone. This is a huge product.”
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Sales started on June 29 at 6 p.m. in each U.S. time zone as part of Jobs’ plan to gain a foothold in what he called a “giant market.” By yesterday, the iPhone had sold out most of Apple’s stores in California.
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The enthusiasm of buyers such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak may put Jobs well on the way to that goal.
“I was going to only use the iPhone as a test phone at first, but I’m ready now to make it my primary number,” said Wozniak, who got in line at 4 a.m. on June 29 to buy the phone. “I was still a bit negative after a couple of test calls, but then I tried the browser and was shocked at how wonderful it was to have real Web pages.”
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