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Picks Up WizardofOzMovie.com Ahead of Remake — Warner Bros

Picks Up WizardofOzMovie.com Ahead of Remake — Warner Bros

Movie studio gets key domain name for future Wizard of Oz remake.

Wizard of OzTurner Entertainment, owned by Warner Bros, has picked up the domain name WizardofOzMovie.com ahead of a planned remake of the 1939 classic Wizard of Oz.

The domain name was owned by a Canadian man who had noted “this domain is for sale” in the whois record and listed it for $500 on Sedo.

But Warner Bros didn’t end up paying the owner directly for the domain name name. It filed a UDRP at National Arbitration Forum and upon receiving the complaint the owner capitulated.

The studio does not own WizardofOz.com. That domain is owned by Don’t Worry Inc, which appears to be a Fresh Jersey computer services firm. There are no UDRP disputes pending for WizardofOz.com.

Had Warner Bros not procured this domain name it still had some other inferior ones up its sleeve. It registered WizardofOz-Movie.com, WizardofOz-TheMovie.com, and WizardofOzTheMovie.com in March 2010.

The studio also owns TheWizardofOz.com, although many people forget “the” when typing domain names.

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