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Kentucky grabs GoldenCasino.com, THIRD DOMAIN SEIZED.
While the Kentucky Internet Gambling Domain Name forfeiture hearing before Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate has been postponed until Friday at 3:30 PM EST, Point-Spreads.com has learned that Oregon registrar PublicDomainRegistry.com turned over the domain name GoldenCasino.com to the state of Kentucky much to the delight of Governor Steve Beshear. Michael Brown on behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the current administrative contact for the domain name in WHOIS searches. This is the third domain name that the state has secured.
Just simply amazing.
goldencasino.com still works for me. but this is unbelievable! this will set a massive legal precedent…although only US authorities can legally play around with this since ICANN is overseen by US.
but still, KY is going mental.
Although the site is still online for me aswell.. the whois mentioned the following:
(same for technical/administrative/registrantRegistrant:
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Michael Brown ()
125 Holmes Street
Frankfort
Kentucky,40601
US
Tel. +1.8592557080Hot damn. Kentucky is operating an online casino!
@Dominique 177740 wrote:
Hot damn. Kentucky is operating an online casino!
How fitting… Kentucky, birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. He must be rolling over in his grave! Wonder who though up this scheme… I would guess some uneducated politician playing online, while watching porn and popping viagra while drinking Jack and smoking some Kentucky Grass! Quick Jethrow, get grannie, ellie may and the truck… we is goin’ to town!
What is next… porn, viagra… can’t a person get a fix anymore?
I’m no fan of Golden Casino, that’s for sure. But seeing their domain seized by Kentucky, literally makes me sick to my stomach.
I really didn’t think this would go this far. Then again, a lot of us thought things wouldn’t go this far when UIGEA was passed.
This is like a bad dream. Somebody wake me up already.
well I think we should file for some domain names using this ruling no?
Why not seize google and yahoo for indexing gambling sites as well?
@LandofOz 177755 wrote:
Why not seize google and yahoo for indexing gambling sites as well?
Or for having served gambling ppc ads in the past!
Fair is fair :bjsmile::Pisser::terms::hitthefanI would like to see if Kentucky takes any domain from a gambling business based in Malta. Given things are not good between EU and US on the gambling matters, it would bring a lot of problems into the table.
In an industry that moves and readjusts as fast as this one, I suspect it will be painful for most of us to observe how slowly this situation evolves and resolves in the legal system.
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Hi all,
okay but the only domains they have gotten are ones that were given up right?
I am not going to worry until I see them take one … or I see another registar cave.
We keep making the comparison to China and how oppressive their government is, but even China would not take actions like these. We have a writer who has been talking about moving out of America lately and I fear this may push him over the edge. This is so damn serious, here is a quote from his latest article…
Imagine if the Las Vegas Sands, the Wynn Hotel and Casino, the Mirage, and several other major American gambling brands had their websites seized by the Chinese government.
Imagine if China did not just deny their citizens the right to visit these sites, but also filed a governmental decree that demanded registrars hand over control of the domain names of these major US companies.
Now imagine that China was successful in gaining control of those domain names, and imagine that those companies did not have a land based presence. They would have seen their entire company gone. Stolen by the Chinese government. Their stocks would crash. Their stock holders would lose millions and thousands of American workers would be out of jobs.
Now, imagine that this was not China doing it to American companies, but America doing it to foreign companies…
AP – A judge has given lawyers for online casinos seven days to file legal briefs in a case that could lead to the blocking of gambling Web sites in the state.
Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate said he wants attorneys to submit the briefs before he holds another hearing in the case that he described as “very complex.”
Kentucky Justice Cabinet spokeswoman Jennifer Brislin said some online casino operators already have begun blocking access to Kentuckians in response to the lawsuit filed by state officials.
After a barrage of questions and comparisons to oppressive regimes, Brislin has stated several times today that their intention is to stop Kentuckians from being able to view the sites, not to shut down the sites to the world.
The PPA filed papers to the judge declaring that poker is a game of skill and not illegal in the state. We have called the Commonwealth of Kentucky officials and confirmed that they truly have received thousands of angry calls, emails, and letters from poker players in the state who had contributed to Beshears campaign.
