If you read the Friday morning edition of the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety, you will notice a story about Jerry Bruckheimer acquiring the big screen rights to Idw Publishing's graphic novel World War Robot. But if you had looked at the recent domain records that Disney had purchased: Worldwarrobot-movie.Com, Worldwarrobotmovie.Com, or Worldwarrobotthemovie.Com, you would have known about this announcement before it happened. Jim Hill noticed that the mouse house went on a domain buying spree yesterday (July 29th), snapping up a bunch of Internet addresses for possible upcoming projects. So which projects were on the purchase list? Details after the jump. Among the new domains purchased was MONSTERS2.com, the possible future location for the highly rumored sequel to Pixar's Monsters Inc. At a recent licensing fair, Disney officials supposedly told attendees behind closed doors that Pete Doctor would be following Up with Monsters, Inc 2. We asked
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