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February 19, 2006
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Internet domain names all registered for donated pandas to Taiwan

BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Sixteen domain names related to the two pandas donated to Taiwan have all been registered with marked price for all the 16 hitting as high as 3.33 million yuan (416,000 U.S. dollars), the Beijing Morning Post reported Sunday.

The 16 domain names both in Chinese and English for Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan have all been registered by one person, an IT worker surnamed Peng in Shanghai.

"I'm engaged in IT industry, I'm quite confident in prospects of domain names of 'tuantuanyuanyuan.com.', and 'tuantuanyuanyuan.com.cn'," Peng was quoted by the paper as saying.

Peng spent only about 2,000 yuan to ...

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