CBBC Newsround reports that Warner Brothers, Lightmaker, and Seabottom Productions have purchased domain names related to the title of book six. Among them, the companies registered such names as ‘harrypotterandthehalfbloodprince.com’. Lightmaker is the company that created J.K. Rowling’s website; Seabottom is a company that has been linked to the author. The registrations weren’t made until …read more!

If you’re a Leaky regular, we certainly hope you know the answer to question number three on the BBC’s quiz about events of the past week!. Thanks to Peter for the pointer!

TVGuide in the US has listed Dan Radcliffe at number 5 on the “TV Guide Channels Hottest Summer Movie Hunks” countdown, Hermionellony tells us. Full Bloom (an Orlando Bloom fansite) reported that the show first aired on June 27, but if you click here and register, TV Guide will tell you when the show will …read more!

Many Leaky readers have written to let us know that the “Do Not Disturb” sign has returned to the door on JKRowling.com. What does it mean? She told us that the door would open again, and again, and again with more info – so perhaps there’s another nugget to come rather soon. There’s also a …read more!

BLUBBLE BLUBBLE Everyone, your generosity is simply astounding. Thank you so much. We are still begging: – so that we won’t have to do this again for a long time. Still, checks, money orders, cash (if you feel comfortable sending it), paper clips, bits of string, baby pictures, and old stamps welcome at Leaky, Inc. …read more!

DanRadcliffe.com is sponsoring a charity raffle in honor of Dan’s birthday (July 23). The raffle, for PoA merchandise, will benefit Demelza House, Dan’s preferred charity.

Already: Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com have notification lists for the publication of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Thanks Robin and Denise!

HPANA has a short interview with the Book Six Title hoaxer, in which the “anonymous” person (who says he didn’t expect all the attention yet e-mailed every HP news site with the hoax) says, “If I had not started the hoax, would we all know the real title to book 6 right now?” Loath as …read more!

We’ve finally done it. We’ve outgrown even the amazing generosity of Mantissa.net, who has been hosting us for free since our server exploded around, oh, 2001. Even with our main page a text-only, as it has been all month, we’re more than 200,000MBs above our bandwidth limit. That we’re still operating is only a testament …read more!

Three-time Academy Award-winning Production Designer Stuart Craig will be awarded Hollywood Art Director of the Year at this year’s Hollywood Film Festival. Craig has served as production designer, which is the position responsible for the atmosphere and all around ‘look’ of the movie, for all three Harry Potter films, and is currently working on Goblet …read more!