WagerWeb.com is a Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

 based sports book that offers betting lines on an array of sporting and media related events.

Founded in 1994, the company is a privately held online gaming

Online gambling

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 company, licensed and located in San Jose, Costa Rica. Wagerweb.com features an online sportsbook and racebook, an online casino

Online casino

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 and an online poker room. The company caters to a mostly American customer base. Besides normal sports events, WagerWeb offers betting lines on media related events.

From their conception until 2004 WagerWeb employed betcbs.com as its primary operating site. WagerWeb was forced to migrate and adopt WagerWeb.com as a their primary site due to violating CBS Inc.'s

CBS

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trademark. Wagerweb never released the domain to CBS but agreed not to use the domain for gaming purposes.