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I may be a novice but shouldn't that document not be in a webroot or shouldn't the webserver not render it? I mean, It's not giving any terribly sensitive information but I'd assume that it shouldn't be just dumping like that?
Aren't you asking the obvious here?
My favorite is http://mammals.org.
it seems like it was part of an old project: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Apple-purchase-Mammals-org-and-...
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It's been a long time (obviously), but I think I recall mammals.org being registered right around the same time they were starting to use names like Darwin and Carbon.
Imagine if you will being in the meeting when Jobs shot down the idea "damn it mammals are just too whimpy! i want fierce creatures like big angry cats!!!"
airport.com - what a domain.
Wow! And Airport products weren't even released until 1999. I'm not sure how they did that. Probably something to do with liquid cash assets ;)
seems like icloud.org shouldn't be listed under .br
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That list shows a huge amount of earnt knowledge.

Notice the www.applesmartcovers.com domains? That sort of stuff, while obvious in hindsight, probably nets them hundreds of $K alone.

Sorry, could you expand on that? It sounds interesting, but I don't understand the logic.
I'm not too sure either, but my guess is in implied value, where without an apple and iPad and smart cover, the domain is worth $5/mo but with it, it's obvious prime Internet real estate and worth a lot more. As for how much money apple actually makes from this domain, I'm pretty confident nothing.
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Isn't a bit strange that www.apple.co.uk isn't in apple's huge list of domains?
It looks like Apple Illustration got there first in August 1996. I presume Apple Computer didn't have the foresight to go around registering with every ccTLD back then.

It must be worth a pretty penny now though.

Add to that www.apple.gr as well.
This is only a subset of Apple's less important domains. For example, iwork.com, apple.ca, itunes.com, etc. are not here.
It seems to me that this is a list of their domains that have no functionality other than to redirect to another place. Of the few I tested, they all resolved to the same IP address as well.
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Just out of curiosity, what is the last line for?

    1;
Causes the file to evaluate to 'true' when loaded as a Perl library, which is good form to indicate no error.
Perl modules must return a true value (>0). 1; at the end is the easiest way, but if the last statement in the module always evaluates to true, you're similarly okay.

Yeah, it's weird. :/

I like the domain for "MacOS X Leon."
My favorite too. The OS artwork will look great with the picture of Leon Spinks as the OS mascot.
English:Lion::Español:León
Ok, what was the guy who fount this looking for in the first place?
Such a shame they don't own aapl.com, mac.org & macintosh.{com,org}...

Off topic: I've noticed that recently, Google's first result for 'Mac' has (mysteriously) changed from "apple.com/mac" to "maccosmetics.com"!

That's very interesting. Seems like an unfeasible task to outrank Apple using that keyword.
My search for Mac has a local cosmetics salon ranked first.
I also did a search and I can confirm that www.maccosmetics.com is indeed first. Interesting.
Well my beautiful wife will buy six Mac Cosmetics products some months, outnumbering the total amount of Apple products purchased by our household ever (a total which includes 0 Macs). So it makes some sense to me that more people searching "mac" are looking for the cosmetics, which they research, review, and buy regularly, especially if a portion of Apple searchers are also using more specific terms like "macbook" or "air".
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Really? M.A.C. has more brand awareness for that term outside of this little valley.
Search... plus your world!
SPYWorld result. What did you just tell us about yourself? :)

Edit: I see it too, seems they have invested lots in SEO.

And: where did the [ Normal | SPYWorld ] buttons go? When Google started SPYWorld it was possible to switch between normal and spyworld searches. I don't see the buttons anymore in my search results. :-o

> And: where did the [ Normal | SPYWorld ] buttons go?

They are over on the right, next to the settings gear. Switch from the person icon to the globe icon.

They are supposed to, but not for me.
Check out all the microsoft ones at the bottom...
Those just indicate redirects to Microsoft's website, Apple-owned domains.
What really scares me is that somewhere, some code that looks like "%matrix = (); do 'init'; ..." exists. That's one way to implement config files, I guess...
I'm curious on how many TLD extensions Apple owns for "apple" i.e. apple.com, apple.net, etc
Can someone explain to me what this is (or was since it is no longer listed)?
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /init on this server.

seems like we have hackers from apple visiting!

The perl here will give me nightmares.

%matrix = ( key => val, k2 => v2 );

is your friend :(

yes, i scare easily.