"The Story Behind iPhone.com" was posted by ThinkingSerious and received 10 users commented
Andrew Warner said,         
May 7 2008

Man, I wish I bought a bunch of domains back in the day.

Before Apple’s iPhone there was iPhone.com said,         
May 8 2008

[...] blogger behind ThinkingSerious.com, Elmer Thomas, happened to run into the original owner of iPhone.com at Starbucks; see the video [...]

Before Apple’s iPhone there was iPhone.com » Domain News said,         
May 8 2008

[...] blogger behind ThinkingSerious.com, Elmer Thomas, happened to run into the original owner of iPhone.com at Starbucks; see the video [...]

Video Interview with former IPhone.com owner | Domain Name News said,         
May 8 2008

[...] Thomas of Thinking Serious, ran into Michael Kovatch at a StarBucks and used the opportunity for a video interview about the [...]

Fotobuch said,         
May 8 2008

That’s an interesting story. Michael Kovatch is selling iphone.com to Apple, isn’t it? I can hardly wait to see what happens next.

ThinkingSerious said,         
May 9 2008

Minor correction: He bought the domain in 1993, not 1983 :)

More Friday Links » Self Made Minds said,         
May 16 2008

[...] Elmer runs into Michael Kovach in Starbucks, Michael bought iphone.com in 1993 and kept it until 2006 when he sold it to Apple. [...]

Mally Magazine Subscription said,         
May 18 2008

Didn’t he sell it for 1 millions dollars?

iPhone.com - proof forward thinking pays ! | The-iBlog said,         
June 8 2008

[...] enough, out of a Starbucks cup which will make sense in a minute!) I cam across a post over on thinkingserious.com. In said post, I found a youtube video of an interview with a chap called Michael Kovatch. Michael [...]

Phelim said,         
June 8 2008

Why wouldn’t he look you in the eye? Was he lying or were there just lots of more interesting people about…

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