With Apple’s Tablet rumours only heating up in the past few days, MacRumours got their hands on an article that says that Apple reportedly bought the domain name iSlate.com some time back.

The iSlate.com domain was originally registered in October 2004 by a company called Eurobox Ltd. It later changed hands to Data Docket, Inc. in 2006. In 2007, however, the domain was transferred to registrar MarkMonitor.com. MarkMonitor handles domain name registrations and trademark protections for many companies, including Apple. As is typical, however, the name of the actual registrant was initially hidden to obscure the identify of the actual owner. Up until this point, one could still easily dismiss all this as a simple coincidence.

The following historic recording pins the ownership on Apple, so ther’s no denying the Apple part in all this.

The only conclusion I can draw through all this is that the upcoming Tablet will (probably) be called iSlate. Works for me.