Apple Finally Gets Ownership of iPhone.com From Domain Owner
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007A post on Paul Sloan “The Key” blog talks about Apple finally getting control or buying out the domain name iPhone.com. Apparently, iPhone.com use to point to a website that had a bunch of ads on it that sold cell phones, however the website did not sell iPhones, go figure. It was probably a MFA (Made For Adsense) site.
If you are unfamiliar with the term “domain tasting” than this is the post or article will help shed some light on the subject. Basically, domain tasting is when an individual or a business purchases a large amount of domains and parks them right away to test to see if there is any traffic on the domain name and also to see if the traffic can be converted into clicks which generate revenue. The two things they are looking for is “type-in” traffic and high “click-through-ratio (CTR). If the domain names they register makes more than what the domain name cost, then they keep the domain names, however if they don’t then of course the obvious route is to cancel the domain names.





