Me.com

Seth Weintraub
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June 01, 2008
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In addition to the mobileme.com as we reported on Friday, it looks like Apple is set to change the .Mac service to me.com as well.  MacRumors found some Apple names in the registration information of me.com which now point to snapsville.com - a social networking site.

Markmonitor is sure doing a poor job of hiding Apple's domain ambitions.

As there is much code in the upcoming iPhone SDK linking to mobileme.com where .Mac used to exist, it is likely that the upgrade will be announced at WWDC with direct tie-ins with the new iPhone and iPhone software.

Why change from .Mac to me.com?  Very likely so that the service can become  Cross-platform. 

We'll see next week!

Comments (6)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 01, 2008 - 8:48am

I hope Apple will let me keep my mac.com address, too, so I can use both mac.com and me.com together.

Andyorkney (not verified) | June 01, 2008 - 9:20am

Maybe keynotemas is coming try this link!

http://www.me.com/test.swf

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 01, 2008 - 10:44am

myname@me.com? dumb.

they'll have to sync/link/push all your old email addresses (yahoo remembers iphone) and link up calenders, contacts, webpages created on iweb, iweb mobile, APIs for facebook etc?? blah blah.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 01, 2008 - 11:28am

has anyone thought it may become .Me
sounds similar
implys internet+personality
.Mac goes to www.mac.com
.Me may go to www.me.com
and %@ is two letters that could be switched

Kev Orng (not verified) | June 01, 2008 - 3:07pm

If they change the @mac.com email address, (which I doubt), they'll probably migrate existing users straight over.

I think it's worth pointing out, as I did over at Macrumors.com, that if anyone thinks there is the slightest chance that there will be an announcement next week that will motivate a surge in .mac (or whatever) signups, then it is well worth the effort to take the five seconds and sign up for the free trial.

Because if you decide to do it after a major improvement to the service is announced, you might not get the username you want. Right now, the user base is relatively small, so there's still a very good chance of getting yourname@mac.com without a bunch of numbers after it. And even if you let the trial expire (as I did in 2002) it will not allow anyone else to use the name you chose, so if you choose to join again some years later (as I did in 2005) you can activate your original name.

There's a much higher chance of there being someone who wants the same username as you among all the iPhone users than there are among existing dotMac members.

So, now that I have safely secured a free dotMac trial for my wife (who said she MIGHT switch to Mac next time she buys a computer) I can freely recommend that anyone who thinks they might have the tiniest chance of developing some future interest in dotMac (or whatever) should run, not walk, to get their free trial. Let it expire, remember the password, and someday, when the service is so awesome that nobody can live without it, you can reactivate your awesome username.

Just my opinion.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 01, 2008 - 8:54pm

Mecom Delta