‘I thought only your host change can effect your rankings, not the changing of your registrar… ‘
It improves your ranking in the country of the registrar but doesn’t negatively affect your rankings elsewhere. I have top rankings in India but that doesn’t help… obviously if having a us registrar helps your usa rankings you will lose that boost, but it wont negatively affect rankings.
http://www.gandi.net is a registrar in france that is highly over priced. The system there is confusing but many blackhats use this registrar so they might not care about court orders.
http://www.resellerclub.com – I use these guys and they are cheap and in India. Free privacy services.
I’m surprised so many casinos are using USA registrars, but I can honestly see that as not even being taken into consideration. And like someone else said, the location of the registrar might not even matter. ICANN controls everything and they are in the states, there was a reason a while back that the government wanted to retain control over the internet in US hands.
For all we know this could be a plot to get people to fight the court order and as soon as they show up in the state they will be arrested themselves.
Long live the land of the free!