Apple.com

Infobox Website
name = apple.com
favicon =



caption = Screenshot of apple.com home page
url = http://www.apple.com
commercial = Yes
type = Portal
registration = February 19, 1987
owner = Apple Inc.
author = Apple Inc.
launch date =
current status = Active
revenue =

apple.com is url of the official website of Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer. It provides promotions for its products, advertisements (including the company's television ads, usually available in QuickTime format), and product support information. www.apple.com/startpage serves as the default home page in Safari.

History

It was registered by the company on February 19, 1987 3:55, thus making it the 64th oldest registered .com domain name.

It was hacked for a few hours in 1997 by a prankster [ [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelpanic/14909783/in/set-283374/ Screenshot of apple.com hack incident in 1997] ] in a similar manner to goatse.

Current Sub-domains

* store.apple.com - the Apple Store (online)
* dev.apple.com - the Apple Developer Connection
* discussions.apple.com - Discussion forums, primarily for help and support on product issues
* consultants.apple.com - section for consultants
* phobos.apple.com - http links to specific itms pages which automatically launches iTunes if available.
* deimos3.apple.com - another http link to specific itms pages in iTunes
* education.apple.com - redirects to www.apple.com/education, Apple's portal for teachers and students who make use of the company's products or services.

Redirects

* www.itunes.com redirects to www.apple.com/itunes
* www.ipod.com redirect to www.apple.com/ipod
* www.iphone.com redirects to www.apple.com/iphone
* www.apple.com/hypercard redirects to the Wikipedia article on HyperCard

References

External links

* [http://www.apple.com Apple.com]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelpanic/sets/283374/ Screenshots of Apple.com since 1996] mostly captured from [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apple.com the Wayback Machine's archive] courtesy of the Internet Archive.