Kentucky Seizes 141 Gambling Domains
The commonwealth of Kentucky issued a seizure order on September 18, ordering 141 domains be taken from their registrants.
order-of-seizure-of-domain-names (adobe Reader Required)
“”The Domain names shall be immediately transferred by their respective registrars to an account of the Commonwealth of Kentucky “”.
The seizure was taken after the Commonwealth found that the “domains were being used in connection with illegal gambling activity”.
However some of these domains are simply parked domains not sites taking bets.
The domains seized include: (the full list is on the adobe file)
fulltiltpoker.com
indiancasino.com
bet21.com
allslots.com
bodoglife.com
bookmaker.com
SportsBook.com
SportsBetting.com
superslots.com
pokerstars.com
doylesroom.com
GoldenPalace.com
As far as I can tell, no notice of this action was given to any of the registrants, nor was any hearing held giving the registrants an opportunity to appear
The order does talk about the court holding a hearing sometime in September to for registrants who want to claim there domain “qualifies for return”
Obviously a very scary tactic taken by one state.
Another reason you might want to consider moving your domains to a registrar outside of the US, as this order is to the registrars of the domains, not the central registry.
Whether this move can stand legal challenge is highly questionable.
The order did state that the “domain configurations shall remain unchanged”, so the domains should continue to resolve to the registrant’s sites. This may be an attempt to greatly limit the commonwealth damages in the event this “order” is overturned.
What is another state decided tommorow to seize adult domains, because they contained illegal obsence material?
This will not cause the registrants to hire legal representation, go to Kentucky and try to get their property back.
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that what it says:
BullShitWebsites- websites(humans too) that provide useless info or trying to sell you something that you don’t need and wanting your money and more money!!! Is your website the BullShitWebsite?
All ( 99.999% )websites fall in that criteria!!!
Who says all the neanderthals are extinct?
UPDATE
http://www.thedomains.com/2008/10/07/kentucky-hearing-held-today/
All US registrars are a waste of time and will not speak… wasz recomended this link by several IMEGA memebers, http://www.safenames.net/gamingwebsites.aspx, gave them a call, UK Registrar, governed by UK legislation, Fulltiltpoker, Bodog and many more use them and transferred to them all my domains that are not on the Kentucky list, Godaddy and Netsol have locked my domains so i am playing follow the leader here. Got em all protected at Safenames and I see that eceryone is registering .eu domains with these guys with a proxy service. This is not the endbut the beginning, if several states get together then it will become a federal matter so good bye USA and hello England. Let me know if anyone comes up with any more suggestions.
Mad
We moved all our domains to a ICANN approved registry in the Bahamas.
We believe it is the only true “offshore” solution.
Check it out:
http://wwwNameVault.com
UPDATE
The Kentucky Court of Appeals Overturned the Domain Seizure Order today
You can read more about it at:
http://www.thedomains.com/2009/01/20/kentucky-appeals-court-overturns-the-domain-seizure-order/
Until now only the very popular USA casinos have been taken by the Kentucky government only to support their local gambling. Internet Freedom is in the hands of a local state?