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Appellate Court Overturns Seizure of Gambling Domains

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Yesterday, the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned a seizure and forfeiture order for 141 domains used to promote, conduct or advance illegal gambling. The list of 141 domains contained popular gambling sites including: fulltiltpoker.com, indiancasino.com, bet21.com, allslots.com, bodoglife.com, bookmaker.com, sportsbook.com, sportsbetting.com, superslots.com, pokerstars.com, doylesroom.com and goldenpalace.com. The Kentucky Court of Appeals ...

New Top-Level Domain Application Period Delayed

Monday, January 5th, 2009

  The top-level domain process is going forward but will likely be delayed.  Original estimates were that the application process would begin this spring.  However, in an advertisement in the current issue of the Economist magazine, ICANN stated that the new top-level domain process will commence in the second half of ...