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Proposed opening bid on eBay for the rights to www.carrodoleao.com, put up for auction by Tony Ashcraft, a Texas resident. Ashcraft came to own the address through a strange confluence of events. He noticed it on a number of virtual posters in Rainbow Six 3, a videogame (shown here) for the Xbox. Thinking it was an extension of the game, he tried to log onto the site, only to find it hadn’t been bought —by Ubisoft, the game’s developer, or anyone else.

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