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=Domain Names and Trademarks=

Blizzard Entertainment owns numerous trademarks and domain names for ~~future Diablo products~~games in their empire. ~~www~~These do not necessarily mean anything, especially not in the short term; they bought Starcraft2.~~diablo3~~com before Starcraft was even released.eu~~www~~But they do give some indication that the company has an ongoing interest in developing more games in their various game worlds.~~diablo3.esDiablo4.fr~~

~~May 28, 2004 diablo2.fr, diablo3.fr. vivendi owned.~~ ==Domain Names==

~~'''''Diablo II: Salvation''''' was a title~~ A partial and growing list of Blizzard registered years ago, apparently to use for a potential Diablo movie. I remembered hearing the name long ago, and a search turned it up in our news archives, way back on [http://diabloii.net/news/archivenews/archive1/~~arc9.shtml|February 27, 2001]. Since they haven't done anything with it yet, I think we can chalk it up to just another trademark bought~~ Vivendi owned domain names and ~~not used. This happens all~~ the ~~time in business, which is why we aren't getting too excited about that "The Burning Crusade" trademark~~dates they were registered.

* Diablo2.fr

* Diablo3.eu

* Diablo3.es

* Diablo3.de

* Diablo3.fr

* Diablo4.fr

~~Ricard sends word that on 24th March 2006 Blizzard registered the diablo3.es (Spain) domain. They recently also aquired the diablo3.de domain from a third party.~~==Trademarks==

'''Diablo II: Salvation''' was a title Blizzard registered in 2000, as a title for a movie or video game. [http://diabloii.net/news/archivenews/archive1/arc9.shtml In 2001] Blizzard instigated legal action to force New Line Cinema to change the name of their upcoming Vin Diesel-staring action film from ''El Diablo.'' Blizzard was ultimately victorious in the suit, and the film's title changed to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266465/ ''A Man Apart''].

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