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I'm not sure this is new or not, but if you type in the name of a pokemon as a website (e.g. www.gliscor.com) it will redirect to either nintendo's website or the official pokemon website.

Maybe with some more investigation, it could be determined which websites go where and maybe in future discover new Pokemon names somehow.

What I've found out so far is that most third and second generation pokemon redirect to http://www.pokemon.com/ and most fourth generation pokemon redirect to http://www.nintendo.com/

Most first gen pokemon except pikachu don't have a website however pikachu.com goes to the Hey You Pikachu! page on Nintendo Power's website.

None of the Sinnoh starters redirect, perhaps this is for fear of releasing the starters names early.

Exceptions so far:
- Sinnoh Starters
- Pikachu
- Manaphy

I don't know if this is in anyway significant although it could be something interesting to investigate.
 
Wow it does that's wierd, i checked by typing it myself to check if your links were just the link to the site but it does work.
 
The information on gliscor.com was registered on the 15th March and i owned by surprise surprise the following address:

Nintendo of America Inc.
4820 150th Ave NE
Redmond, WA 98052
US
Click to expand...

Also, most second gen names were registered on 1st May 2000.
 
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...interesting...
 
Or maybe nintendo bought all those domain names so noone could steal them, and put them in one website.
 
Ya. because then there are legal issues
 
Interesting.
 
i did magmar, eevee, and gliscor, only gli rediredcted me to nintendo, the other didnt redirect at all
 
Nice! Thanks for that little bit of interesting info.
 
Interesting. Dont work for some pokemon though.
 
i wonder what would happen if you were to type their names in romanised japanese
 
Wtf? Why do we suddenly have a thread about this where everyone is asking surprised? This is standard everyday copyright practice (goofy.com and mickey.com both go to the Disney website, for instance) and has been used to find out new Pokemon names since the second generation came out. It's not weird or even interesting at all, ALL companies do this if they can afford to.
 
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