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Apple Going After 'iPhone' Porn Domains

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Apple is not shy when it comes to protecting its name. The company has pursued a variety of companies with Apple-esque domain names, including appleoslion.com and ipods.com, but it is now setting its sights on porn domains with "iPhone" in the title.

According to Domain Name Wire, Apple filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO) over seven domain names that include the word "iPhone" and redirect to adult Web sites.

That includes: iphonecamforce.com, iphonecam4s.com, iphoneporn4s.com, iphonesex4s.com, iphonexxxforce.com, iphone4s.com, and porn4iphones.com.

As DNW pointed out, the iphone4s.com domain (warning: don't type that in at work), the name of the latest iPhone, is probably most troubling since users are likely to type that in.

A WIPO spokesperson confirmed the filing. Apple has also filed multiple complaints with the organization over infringing domain names.

Earlier this year, Apple went after the owner of several iPod-related domains, including ipods.com, appleipods.com, and ipodhack.com, as well as iphhone.com, and iphine.com. The company won that complaint in July.

In May, Apple successfully obtained the apple-downloads.com and apple-oem.com domain names. In March, Apple also won the rights to appleoslion.com, appleosxlion.com, macoslion.com, macosxleo.com, macosxleon.com, and macosxlion.com. Last year, it was awarded appl.com and aplle.com.

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Chloe Albanesius

Chloe Albanesius

Executive Editor, News

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