Apple buys iCloud.com domain name?

GigaOm writes that the domain was previously owned by Swedish company Xcerion and used as a cloud storage space. The company, however, rebranded its iCloud service as CloudMe after buying the CloudMe.com domain on April 5.

A banner on the CloudMe site says, "We are pleased to announce that iCloud is now CloudMe."

GigaOm references a source who claims that Apple paid $4.5m (?2.7m) to Xcerion to acquire the site but claims that the latter is still listed at the ...

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