Apple Purchased iSlate.com in 2007 [For the Tablet?]

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Posted December 25, 2009 at 12:40am by Shalom Levytam

In 2007, Apple purchased iSlate.com leading to speculation that their rumored tablet might be of the same name.

MacRumors discovered that the domain was originally registered in October 2004 by Eurobox Ltd. In 2006 it changed hands to Data Docket, Inc. In 2007 it was transferred to registrar MarkMonitor.com, a site which handles registrations and trademark protections for Apple among other companies.

After further investigation of the domain name registrant history, it seems Apple's name was temporarily exposed as the actual owner of "iSlate.com" for several weeks in late 2007. It was changed back within a few weeks, but MacRumors has found the historic record proving Apple ownership of the iSlate.com domain

What do think? Is iSlate the name of Apple's Tablet? Is it a good name?

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Apple Purchased iSlate.com in 2007 [For the Tablet?]

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t11chb - December 27, 2009 at 6:47am

I did my own whois on the domain and it doesn't say what yours says, so I think this might be fake!

bob - December 26, 2009 at 9:51am

iSlate sounds like something from the flintstones hahaha

matrixmaniac - December 25, 2009 at 10:54pm

They definitely should go away from the i-Words. It's getting boring, limiting and somehow childish. (kids hae these moments when they love this kind of repetition). Apple "owns" great names with great history: so, why not take "Newton II" or so?

Samy - December 25, 2009 at 1:48pm

It's a bad name. I hope it is going to get any name but not iSlate.