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List of Apple domains

From The Apple Wiki

This is an incomplete list of domains known to be used by Apple platforms in regular operation.

Most services are served by subdomains of apple.com.

Domains owned by Apple

Apple is confirmed to own and use the following domains.

Domain Primary purpose
apple-cloudkit.com CloudKit SDK[1]
apple-dns.net iCloud Private Relay
apple-livephotoskit.com Live Photos Kit SDK[2]
apple-mapkit.com MapKit SDK[3]
apzones.com iCloud in China mainland[4]
beatsbydre.com Beats by Dre
foundationdb.org FoundationDB
icloud.com iCloud
icloud.com.cn iCloud in China mainland[4]
iwork.com iWork
mac.com .Mac
me.com MobileMe
pkl-lang.org Pkl "configuration-as-code" language
posplano.com Apple Store planograms
researchandcare.org ResearchKit and HealthKit
shazam.com Shazam
swift.org Swift open source project
webkit.org WebKit open source project

.apple

Apple owns the ".apple" top-level domain. It is a brand TLD, meaning it is fully controlled by Apple, and domains can not be registered by third-parties. Apple provides a TLD policy page.

Content Delivery Networks

CDNs provide worldwide caching of static content for optimal performance.

Domain Primary purpose
aaplimg.com Hostnames used for datacenter routing
cdn-apple.com Content delivery network for firmware
mzstatic.com Content delivery network for Apple Media Services

User-generated content

To protect from potential attacks that may arise from hosting user-generated content, such content is served from separate domains. This isolates any user cookies so they are inaccessible.

Domain Primary purpose
appleschoolcontent.com User-generated Apple School Manager content
axm-usercontent-apple.com Apple Business Essentials/School Manager
icloud-content.com User-generated iCloud content

Claris

These domains are used by Claris products such as FileMaker.[5]

Domain Primary purpose
claris.com Claris website
filemaker.com FileMaker
filemaker-cloud.com FileMaker Cloud
ifmcloud.com FileMaker Cloud

Domains owned by third-parties

In some cases, Apple defers to third-parties to provide services.

Domain Owner Primary purpose
*.apple.com.edgesuite.net Akamai Content delivery network; no longer in use
*.g.akamai.net Akamai Content delivery network; defunct
apple-relay.cloudflare.com Cloudflare Private Cloud Compute
cp4.cloudflare.com Cloudflare Private Cloud Compute
apple-relay.fastly-edge.com Fastly Private Cloud Compute

References