After the news late last week that Apple could be renaming its suite of online services from .Mac to Mobile Me it appears that the company has also purchased the domain “me.com”.

Me.com currently points to Snappville.com but a Netcraft page for the domain lists an Apple email address as the DNS contact.

Macworld is also reporting that Apple has snapped up multiple .me domain names which are up for grabs from the country of Montenegro.

The .me registry states that Apple has registered domains such as ipod.me, apple.me and itunes.me.

Trademark-holders have until 20 May to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro.

“The .me extension gives every company on the planet the opportunity to personalize their brands…and make them more relevant to today’s Internet-savvy teens,” says Roland LaPlante, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Afilias. “Companies should be registering .me names not just from an intellectual property protection standpoint, but because there is so much business opportunity to personalise products.”

Companies can reserve .me names from more than 60 domain name registrars. Anyone can register a .me name from 6 June through 26 June. The .me registry is scheduled to go live on July 17.