Kentucky Seizes Gambling URLs
Don´t worry folks the Governor of County is smoking marijuana, atleast that is my take on this whole issue. I seriously think he will have a hard time actually seizing any of these foreign owned domains and some of these US based domains might just file a massive lawsuit saying this is unconstitutional and they would probably win.
Poker players and those involved in the online poker industry were absolutely flabbergasted this morning when browsing the online poker news headlines, their email boxes, and poker forums, they found that a court judge in Kentucky, USA, has ordered the seizure of 141 online poker and gambling domains, to be transferred to ownership of the plaintiff – the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Among the 141 online gambling domains to be seized are some of the biggest players in the industry – PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, DoylesRoom.com, AbsolutePoker.com, Bodoglife.com, CakePoker.com and even the leading online gambling software developer, Microgaming.com.
I cannot fathom how the Governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear – who instigated the whole thing – got the idea that he can take control of domain names belonging to small companies outside of the US, but according to the Franklin Circuit Court of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, he can.