Kentucky To Grab Gambling Domains
September 24, 2008 | by Christopher Nickson
A Kentucky court has clear the way for the state to claim the domain names of 141 gambling sites in order to protect its citizens.
It might sound a little bizarre, but it’s true. A Kentucky court has said that the state is within its rights to grab the domain names of 141 different gambling sites in order to protect its citizens, since the state forbids gambling.
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said:
“Unlicensed, unregulated, illegal Internet gambling poses a tremendous threat to the citizens of the Commonwealth because of its ease, availability and anonymity. The owners and operators of these illegal sites prey on Kentucky citizens, including our youth, and deprive the Commonwealth of millions of dollars in revenue. It’s an underworld wrought with scams and schemes.”
The next step will be a hearing tomorrow when domain name registrars will be asked to hand over the domain names to the State.
According to Vnunet, Justice and Public Safety Secretary J. Michael Brown has acknowledged that a number of gambling sites have blocked Kentucky residents, but said that his duty was to those in the state. Gambling might be banned in the Bluegrass state, but it’s not in most parts of the world.
The implications of this could be far-reaching on Internet commerce.
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casinobuff on Sep 24th, 2008 at 9:55 AM:
The US is completely backwards on its gambling prohibition high horse. Get with it you over zealous hicks... regulate & tax it already like most other countries!
No Name on Sep 24th, 2008 at 10:27 AM:
Most of the U.S. is a huge joke on the world stage. Your economy is failing, you piss of the world in a million different ways, your country is crumbling. Youre in massive defecits and debts. Majority of your population is a brainwashed consumer slaves. I trully feel sorry for your citizens.
Now repeat after me.... We just want to protect the Kentucky citizens, including our youth. Oh and save the world from terrorism.
Cut the ********... its a few guys making money while the rest of you sit there and take it...
But ironically , I think i need to check if any of the mentioned sites have any odds on the outcome of this .... I think this is a good opportunity for me to earn some extra euros ...
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Kevin Bush on Sep 24th, 2008 at 8:18 AM:
I'm all for them banning these sites and I agree, they are pretty corrupt and they do promote spam. Kudos Kentucky, kudos. ;]