iPhone??

[mikrei]

Has anyone heard of this iPhone. Rumours says that it's Sonyericssons and Apples project.

At least address is already taken...

http://www.iphone.org

...it takes you to apple.com

[themacko]

why would Apple use a .org address? That seems like a hoax to me.

[davidbrit2]

Interesting...

Here's the whois data for iphone.org:

Domain Name: IPHONE.ORG
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NSERVER2.APPLE.COM
Name Server: NSERVER.APPLE.COM
Updated Date: 21-dec-2001

Notice the updated date is nearly a year old.

And strangely enough, there's an iphone.net, but it seems to be owned by Cisco:

Domain Name: IPHONE.NET
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS1.CISCO.COM
Name Server: NS2.CISCO.COM
Updated Date: 05-nov-2001

But it gets weirder. It seems iphone.com is owned by some place called Net10.net. Go figure.

Domain Name: IPHONE.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1.NACIO.COM
Name Server: NS.NET10.NET
Updated Date: 08-nov-2001

So why did I post those two unrelated whois queries? You'll notice that both have an updated date that's prior to the one listed on iphone.org, which supposedly belongs to Apple. That would mean that the reason they chose .org was because that's all that was left.

[Rhino_G3]

it does seem convincing. But if you go to iphone.org it loads a copy of apple's home page.
I wouldn't think that apple would do something so obvious.

[sheepguy42]

Ok, I don't know much of anything about web site design, but as far as the "if you go to iphone.org it loads a copy of apple's home page" thing goes please tell us if the following is significant:
If you click on any link on the pointed-to Apple page (except .mac) you never leave the iphone.org domain and go to Apple.com's. Why would that be? did Apple copy their whole site to this domain?

[davidbrit2]

I think the domain name servers just resolve the iphone.org hostname to the standard Apple web server IP. They probably use relative links in all of their html, so the browser keeps going from the www.iphone.org/ root.

[sheepguy42]

Thanks, that makes sense. I love getting fast responses, and I feel the need to say that despite all the turmoil this site has undergone, I still feel it is the great, friendly, useful site I first came upon in my search for OS X info quite a while ago.

[rfm]

Read today's Herald Tribune. It had a short interview with Steve Jobs at the Apple Expo in Paris. Jobs was asked whether Apple was coming out with an iPhone. Instead of denying it ouright Jobs answered something like: perhaps but is it custom at Apple never to speculate on new products (I don't have the paper here so I can't give you the exact words). I thought this was quite remarkable.