Apple would not let me register a developer account using my domain name macscan.net. Got a letter from their legal team.
This was not for any product or app I was even thinking of making. This was purely: 'You cannot use that email address'.
This was not for any product or app I was even thinking of making. This was purely: 'You cannot use that email address'.
Macinlock, Mac Cleaner, SMS Mac, Atomic Mac, Mac Powersuite, Wise Mac Care, iFamily for Mac, Macdaddy, CareMyMac, MacTvision
... the list goes on. Just go to some site like macupdate.com or _the_ Mac App Store and search for apps with "mac" in the name, there are hundreds.
For example the company macpaw.com is a company which is over 11 years in the business now. They are regularly featured, yet are allowed to exists.
It highlights Apple's arbitrariness in these situations.
Apple doesn't have to let anyone register a developer account. They don't need a reason if they decide to reject certain account names.
Might be your long held personal email or whatever, but it also looks like a scam URL.
This is the origin of the mac name too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)
* https://apple.com/uk/legal/intellectual-property/guidelinesf...
* https://trademarkelite.com/trademark/trademark-detail/733918...
Even in the the US where MacX or McX is a foreign construct, there have been legal cases where people named McDonald/MacDonald are allowed name their restaurants after themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_legal_cases#The_r...
(Hope I don't get sued too)
If the latter, did you consider...
What do you with a developer account? Develop apps? What do apps need? A support email address? Would a support email address ending in macscan.net be confusing or misleading? Might the confusion be intentional or accidental? Why even risk dealing with this confusion in the future when you can prevent it right now?
No. Not in any way.