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It’s always for the protection of the public isn’t it!
What a joke.
Interesting US approach as usual….no beating about the bush just drive the old tank straight on in there
Did like the quote below though
PokerStars, said: “We anticipated this could happen and we’ve developed an action plan which largely consists of us not responding.”
Like the strategy
Some Out-of-the-industry comments.
People are definitely noticing this.
My favorite:
And this just in:
Kentucky is the first in the country to attempt to block online book purchasing by taking over the Web domain name of Amazon.com.
“Unlike bookstores that operate out of stores or in airports in the United States, these operations pay no tax revenues, provide no jobs and yield no magazine benefits,” Beshear said at a Monday afternoon Capitol press conference. “They are leeches on our communities.”
Posted by: Tulse
They must have a lot of time on their hands in Kentucky!….Either that or they have a special crack team of octogenarians who sit around and moan on about…..’back in my day’ stuff and how they can kill that damn interweb thing!
Does anyone know if this kind of state founded law can actually do this?
All my solidarity with US Webmasters! I understand what you’re passing.
I ive in a European country, (*omissis* lol) . The situation here is not better. State Monopolies by 2006 locks access via web to sites of Gambling Online without a local licence, using a method of censure only seen in China!:flush:
The beautiful is that these sites of gambling are equipped with regular European licence and for this the Supreme Court of European Union continues to fining my country for millions and millions of euros each year for blocking these sites with this illegal method. But Monopolies continue, thereby violating the laws of the free European market… And the citizens pay their taxes!
Of course, to all advantage for national games and national lotteries… (mafia!)…The Games and the national lotteries have really reduced left on the streets whole families!
Online gambling? At least more respectable sites have a limit of deposits… National lotteries here are no limits! One of my friend lost his Car (mortgaged as security for loan) for local scratch cards! 1 Scratch card here costs 10€, so 14,618$ and you have only 3 (three) possibilities on 1.567.891 (!!!!!!!!!) to win a prize of 10.000€….Not to mention prize of 1 million euros… combinations raise up to 20/30 millions!!! Bleach!
Earlier this year Govenor Steve Beshear proposed a bill to get approval for twelve casino licenses in Kentucky including seven for racetrack casinos and it was rejected so he can’t be trying to save the people there from the “wrath of the evils of gambling”. It could be he’s just a moron.
So when the internet was created by the US government, it hired network solutions to run the .org, .com, .net, .edu and .mil domains.
At some point the US turned that over to ICANN i believe. does anyone dispute this and if so, who controls the .com domains? Doesn’t ICANN have to license registrars before they can sell .com s?
If so, then it doesn’t matter who the registrar is, if the controlling registrar is ICANN or any other US based org. or even an org with a US office. They can take the domains. Where do .com disputes get settled?
This is my understanding of the domain industry, but it’s a bit old.
Kevin11, CasinoRanking or anyone else with a lot knowledge, do you guys know the details of who controls the .com domain?if the US can effect .com, .net, .org, .us, the only real solution is to use a TLD that is not based in US.
Well, so far it seems he only got two crappy domains…
@AmCan 177615 wrote:
So when the internet was created by the US government, it hired network solutions to run the .org, .com, .net, .edu and .mil domains.
At some point the US turned that over to ICANN i believe. does anyone dispute this and if so, who controls the .com domains? Doesn’t ICANN have to license registrars before they can sell .com s?
If so, then it doesn’t matter who the registrar is, if the controlling registrar is ICANN or any other US based org. or even an org with a US office. They can take the domains. Where do .com disputes get settled?
This is my understanding of the domain industry, but it’s a bit old.
Kevin11, CasinoRanking or anyone else with a lot knowledge, do you guys know the details of who controls the .com domain?if the US can effect .com, .net, .org, .us, the only real solution is to use a TLD that is not based in US.
I agree this may be case Fred.Last night when i was trying to decide where to move my .coms ,every place i found had the ICANN sign on it. My tech guy in Egypt came up with similar idea as you just posted and he recommended that i maybe think about using .ca or .co.uk. Of course when you have good domains that rank well you don’t want to hear that option but I have bad feeling you may be on to something.
Judy
The US is becoming a dangerous country. The application of law is not understandable in a Rest of World point of view. I wonder when some US authorities will go to Amsterdam trying to shut down a coffee shop, or its website. Websites are global, gambling sites have licenses in jurisdictions they can. If it is illegal in the US, it means nothing to other jurisdictions and the only fair thing that can be done is to ban websites from being seen in the US, not taking the website from the owner. There is much more business on it than just Kentucky.
Free porn content is a service. If it was illegal in China the only thing they can do against foreign companies providing it is to ban access inside China. what would Americans say if Chinese Government decided to seize the websites of US companies? Probably laugh.
If Government really want to ban online gambling in the US, just ban IP’s of gambling sites from being seen inside US. Problem solved. No need to take domains or take any action against anyone. But that would be censorship. And such a free country wouldn’t like that, right? Sincerely, sometimes I don’t see much difference between the censorship of China and the freedom of US.
I guess next step, is from other US State taking action against the state of Kentucky saying the websites they seized belong to them because the gambling offered was more targeted to their state than to Kentucky.
CWC informed me to change their (.com extension) to (.net extension). If they hi-jack the .com why won’t they get the .net also? This is getting to complicated for me. What in the hell is going on? I also think maybe PokerStars has the best plan of action, at the present time anyway. I’m out of here!
@casinobonusguy 177622 wrote:
My tech guy in Egypt came up with similar idea as you just posted and he recommended that i maybe think about using .ca or .co.uk. Of course when you have good domains that rank well you don’t want to hear that option but I have bad feeling you may be on to something.
Judy
Not just the rankings down the :flush: but there is also the fact that people in the police states of America aren’t going to respond to a .ca or .co.uk the same way they would a .com (some won’t even click to visit if they see it’s not .com)
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. :whipper”
Albert Einstein@aksana 177513 wrote:
I’m using OpenX ad server. It’s an OpenSource product.
Interesting. Do you block I.P’s down to the state level?
