Online Gambling Websites React to Kentucky Action: Change Domain Names
Electronic_Dragon wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
A number of online gambling websites have obtained brand new domain names in the event that the commonwealth of Kentucky gets away with seizing up to 141 such URLs named in a complaint.
Kentucky received court permission to seize 141 gambling Web sites’ domain names as it tries to put them out of business there. Gov. Steve Beshear (D) said at a press conference that the gambling-friendly state is taking “unprecedented action” against sites that “siphon off money from regulated and legal games,” such as the state lottery and thoroughbred racing. Kentucky has lost “tens of millions” to unlicensed gambling, he said. Franklin
County Judge Thomas Wingate ordered the domains transferred to Kentucky, “an important first step” in keeping Kentuckians from accessing the sites and forcing sites to pay damages, Beshear said.
The state’s Justice and Public Safety Cabinet had asked the court to force sites simply to bar access to Kentucky users, [...]
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