Kentucky Seizes Gambling Domains

[draggar]

Can anyone recommend a good offshore registrar?

Will that matter? Aren't all .com, .net, .org, .info, and .us domains registered in the US (since the registry is in the US)?

 

[FuseFX]

Will that matter? Aren't all .com, .net, .org, .info, and .us domains registered in the US (since the registry is in the US)?

I don't think they can force Verisign to relinquish domains of offshore registrars. If they could, BodogLife would have been long taken by the patent-troll Scott Lewis.

 

[NostraDomainus]

Greed Breeds Mean Deeds!

Beware of desperate countries on a downward spiral of greed - there is a tendancy to grasp at straws while being insecure and jealous of others who continue to prosper.

IMO - The Greed Bubble is bursting (with a vegence) and a global Moral Correction is underway. Simply put - Greedonomics does not equal Sustainonomics.

Also IMO - It's just the beginning of the downfall of a once proposerous land... a common outcome for those who sell out their values for money, as history tells us.

Carpe Peaciem!

 

[Fatbat]

FullTilt, PokerStars, Sportsbook... yikes, those are some major players. The list reads like the who's who of online gaming still taking bets from the US. This is truly scary.

 

[jasdon11]

FullTilt, PokerStars, Sportsbook... yikes, those are some major players. The list reads like the who's who of online gaming still taking bets from the US. This is truly scary.

Mustn't have been greasing the right palms

 

[GAMEFINEST]

Can't you set your domains to private?

 

[marcorandazza]

Even more of a reason for me to want Obama elected. A guy can't play a poker game at home but Goldman Sachs brokers can go to work and gamble peoples retirements away. Obama 08

Isn't it strange? The Republican Party markets itself as the party of "staying out of our lives," and "individual responsibility," unless you want to exercise that individual responsibility to look at porn, have non-missionary sex, or gamble online.

My firm is representing a number of affected companies, so I can't chime in on too much here, but I do see some weaknesses in Kentucky's strategy.

Some of the affected domains aren't even gambling sites -- but just sites *about* gambling. It looks like they just sent someone off and said "find any site that sounds like a gambling site."

 

[memmst]

As earlier predicted, the Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has already successfully seized at least one online gambling domain name called LuckyPyramidCasino.com. A check of the WHOIS information for this domain name shows that Eric Lycan from the Commonwealth of Kentucky Justice Cabinet is the new administrative contact. The popular registrar ENOM apparently allowed the transfer of the domain name to the state of Kentucky this morning after receiving a order of seizure from a Kentucky judge.

http://www.point-spreads.com/indust...by-kentucky-governor-who-is-next-to-fall.html

 

[JuniperPark]

Breaking news: Kentucky claims ownership of term "inbred hicks" and "sister-f***ing rednecks". Domain seizures are now in progress.

It's this kind of crap that is really, really embarrassing to us Americans.

 

[shenron]

WTF!

In a few days they'll be claiming all the internet names you can remember of...

 

[Donald Aquilano]

Can someone please tell me what justification the state of Kentucky has in seizing these particular gambling domains? From the list I have seen I don't recall seeing any of them with even the word "Kentucky" in it. Not that that would be justification for taking them either.

Isn't it strange? The Republican Party markets itself as the party of "staying out of our lives," and "individual responsibility," unless you want to exercise that individual responsibility to look at porn, have non-missionary sex, or gamble online.

My firm is representing a number of affected companies, so I can't chime in on too much here, but I do see some weaknesses in Kentucky's strategy.

Some of the affected domains aren't even gambling sites -- but just sites *about* gambling. It looks like they just sent someone off and said "find any site that sounds like a gambling site."

BTW since you didn't do any research I thought I'd inform you that the Governor of Kentucky is a Democrat. Do you understand that this issue go's well beyond party lines.

 

[Fatbat]

All the names I tested so far still resolve to their proper destinations. However, I've received notice from StarPartner to login to my affiliate account to change my links. Nothing on eGaming Review or ATE so far though, which is odd.

This is sickening.

 

[JMJ]

Can someone please tell me what justification the state of Kentucky has in seizing these particular gambling domains? From the list I have seen I don't recall seeing any of them with even the word "Kentucky" in it. Not that that would be justification for taking them either.



BTW since you didn't do any research I thought I'd inform you that the Governor of Kentucky is a Democrat. Do you understand that this issue go's well beyond party lines.

It's the republican right holy rollers trying to squash online gambling. All the while the land based casino's are filling their pockets with fat cash.

 

[Fatbat]

It's the republican right holy rollers trying to squash online gambling.

While it's true that some of gaming's biggest opponents are right leaning, some of them have also been left. Religion and morality play little into their positions. It's all about keeping the dollars at home in their states, spent on lotteries, horse racing and as you pointed out, land based casinos.

 

[JMJ]

Yeah well Bill Frist the last one who pulled a stunt like this in the dark of night while everyone was asleep is from Tennessee, my town actually, and he is a republican with his biggest donors being casino's. Kentucky is as Tennessee is ran primarily by republicans. Legislated by churches. Hell the damn strippers in my town can't get within 3-4 feet of you by law.

 

[Theo]

These domains are not even owned by Americans. I see domains like 777dragon.com (Thailand), Allslots.com (UK), Sportsbook.com (UK).

Whoever proceeded with this lawsuit has damaged braincells from too much Kentucky moonshine!

 

[onlinetv]

. Last week the U.S. govt. spent 1 TRILLION dollars to stave off total financial collapse.

Not quite true. The private bank called, Federal Reserve and World Bank, through their representative Paulson have demanded the Congress give them 1 trillion dollars in cash to disperse wherever they feel like it. They have claimed it will be mortgages, home loans, investment loans, and any other loans that they deem need relief. The call is for all bad debts from all banks, insurance and investment houses (now banks via royal decree), and includes all foreign companies that have any business in the USA! A real zinger there.

The money does not exist and never will. The future sweat of many generations toil, the land, mineral rights, property and water guarantees it. The housing has been nationalized, insurance has been nationalized and now private debt has been nationalized while leaving private profit private! Very nice indeed for those who have over a billion and for the rest of us 98 percent of the world we will pay dearly for their parties.

The real problem is allowing fictitious currency. Fiat currency as our means of transactions. It allowed ruling classes to do things without working for them.

 

[cleverlyslick]

why does the government come up with such stupid ideas to try and stop things.when will they understand that DRUGS,SEX, AND GAMBLING WILL NEVER END.PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS WANT THESE THINGS.THE MORE THE GOV TRIES TO STOP IT THE MORE PEOPLE WILL WANT TO DO IT.there is always ways around things and this is no exception.

 

[JuniperPark]

why does the government come up with such stupid ideas to try and stop things.when will they understand that DRUGS,SEX, AND GAMBLING WILL NEVER END.PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS WANT THESE THINGS.THE MORE THE GOV TRIES TO STOP IT THE MORE PEOPLE WILL WANT TO DO IT.there is always ways around things and this is no exception.

Those are just excuses, just as religion is an excuse.


The answer is always the same: GREED.

 

[cleverlyslick]

seems like some of these sites are still taking bets though.