According to WHOIS searches Wednesday, Apple is now listed as the owner of the iCloud.com domain. As late as Tuesday, the domain was still registered to Swedish firm Xcerion, which had used the URL for its online file-storage service.

Reports that surfaced in late April said for the iCloud.com domain. Several weeks before those reports, Xcerion had changed the name of that service to CloudMe and registered a new domain, cloudme.com, to support it.

As of late Wednesday, iCloud.com still redirected users to Xcerion's site.

On Tuesday, the name "iCloud" as its "upcoming cloud services offering," and said several executives, including Jobs, would talk about the service during the opening keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next Monday, June 6.

Apple offered no details about the service other than its name in the short issued Tuesday.