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New Cartoon Universe game? Warner Bros. hints with domains [UPDATED]

Looney Tunes Cartoon Universe game

Is Warner Bros. planning to launch a massively multiplayer online game or social game called “Cartoon Universe”?

Well, if new domain name registrations are any indication of a company’s future plans, it appears a new multiplayer online game could be in the works.

On November 29, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. registered a handful of domains like CartoonUniversegame.com, Playtheuniverse.com and looneytunescu.com.

All together, Warner Bros. registered a dozen domains on November 29, not all having to do with a game.

Here’s a look at the registrations:

cartoonuniversegame.com
cartoonuniverseonline.com
leelabeque.net
looneytunescu.com
loooneytunescartoonuniverse.com
match-heart.com
playtheuniverse.com
scoobydoocartoonuniverse.com
scoobydoocu.com
thecartoonuniverse.com
toontokens.com
wbcash.com

None of the ‘Cartoon Universe’ domain names resolve to a web page at the time of this post going online.

[Updated on May 3, 2012:. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced Cartoon Universe, a free-to-play, online world that will provide a safe, social environment for young kids to go on adventures, solve puzzles and play games with their favorite Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo! Characters.]

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Warner Bros. Entertainment wins dispute over ThunderCats.com domain name

ThunderCats Cartoon Network

With the return of ThunderCats back to television, the domain name ThunderCats.com has been ordered transferred to Warner Bros. by a single member panel of the National Arbitration Forum.

The respondent in the domain dispute was Equity LLC / Name Admin of New York.

On the point of “Registration and Use in Bad Faith”, although the Honorable Charles K. McCotter, Jr. (Ret.) who served as the panelist did not find that Equity LLC had ever attempted to sell the disputed domain name, McCotter did find that the domain had a competing nature because Equity LLC had posted links to websites and businesses which sell action figure goods in competition with Warner Bros.

Of course, there is much more to the decision than just the point of “bad faith”.

You can read all the gory details of the decision through the information published online here.