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Uh oh… MacDailyNews is reporting that Apple owns the rights to the MacBookAir domain.

According to the site, MacBookAir.org, MacBookAir.us, MacBookAir.biz, and MacBookAir.info all show a 1 Infinite Loop address. MacBookAir.com and .net currently do not provide registration info, but odds are they too are registered to a certain Cupertino address.

Or are they?

Before we all run off pell mell, there are some questions to be answered however. First, how hard is it to put a fake mailing address when registering a domain? Apple doesn’t even own the domain to the regular MacBook.com. And as faithful Macenstein reader Shakelford points out, Apple has never owned a .biz address ever (in fact, no one has). Finally, all the MacBookAir domains we see seem to have been bought up on January 11th, right when speculation began that the MacBook Air name might be for real.

So what’s the deal? Does Apple own these domains, or just some stupid California companies willing to pay GoDaddy $9.99 to get a week’s worth of publicity? Can any of our readers with more sleuthing prowess than ourselves shed some light on this?

Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Aleks for helping us past our idiocy and finding the registration link in question.