Apple acquires MobileMe.com from Name Admin?

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Looks like maybe Apple Computer has acquired MobileMe.com from Frank Schilling.

Venture Beat has an article that points to Apple renaming their .Mac service to Mobile Me.

A quick review of the domain MobileMe.com indicates that it was previously owned by Name Admin then transferred to domain specialists Trout & Zimmer (who acquire for big corps). Now the domain is sitting with Mark Monitor.

Here's the article.

[DomainsInc]

I bet they paid a pretty penny for that.

[hugegrowth]

that's the kind of brandable name that would be hard for a domainer to use, makes more sense for a company like Apple (ie: he probably got way more for the domain than he could hope to make from it himself).

[tonyfloyd]

like the saying goes......"the rich keep on getting richer"......guess Frank could probably buy the island he lives on now...

[hugegrowth]

must be nice for sales like ireport.com and this one where the seller doesn't need the money and is dealing from a position of strength. they are basically doing the buyers a favour by selling to them!