Apple has taken public ownership of the applepico.com web domain, records show. Many of the company's domain activities are handled through a San Francisco firm called MarkMonitor. Applepico.com has in fact been linked to MarkMonitor since 2005, but only today was Apple identified as the registrant. Previously the registrant was listed as DNStination, in reality a branch of MarkMonitor used to safeguard the anonymity of clients.