MacRumors’ Arn buys MacBookAir.com, Wired’s MacBook Air mockup

Everything went a little crazy Monday night after someone found out that MacBookAir.com redirected to http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday?

It turns out that MacBookAir.com had been registered by Arn of MacRumors. He cleared that up in a post at the MacRumors forums and then in this post on the Macworld page of Mac Rumors:

This redirection is not an endorsement by Apple itself. Anyone can redirect any domain (they have control of) to any other domain and add a “query string” (?text). You can change it to whatever you want, and this query is passed to the web server. In this case, Apple.com ignores the query.[...]And besides, MacBookAir.com isn’t registered by Apple… it was registered by us. If Apple decides to use the MacBook Air name, they are welcome to the domain.

In addition to that, more MacBook Air news out of Wired this time: Wired has posted a mockup of what the MacBook Air will look like (see the top of this post.) It is “unbelievably thin” and has a tapered appearance, being thicker towards the hinge and thinner towards the palm-rest. Wired is not usually a Mac rumors poster, so it stands to reason that they are fairly confident in this mockup.

Via [Mac Rumors, Wired]