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Protesting the Kentucky Confiscation

A hot ticket item up for debate in the US online casino gambling industry is the Kentucky government’s attempts to confiscate the domain names of some of the top gambling sites in the world. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced the proposed legislation just last month and the news of an imminent domain name seizure was met with instant protestations from the internet gambling industry and other sectors affected by the domain name seizure. Kentucky’s Franklin Circuit Court is gearing up to make a ruling in the case and online casinos and domain name registration companies are waiting with baited breath for the results.

This case became so controversial that the presiding judge in the case extended the ruling by several weeks so that lawyers and companies representing both sides of the issue could submit arguments and briefs to the courts for consideration in the judgment. The hearing is scheduled for tomorrow and this ruling could have a potentially very negative affect on the online casinos facing seizure of their domain names. Information in the case notes that Beshear’s list of online casinos susceptible to seizure include 141 domain names.

The courts have temporarily seized these domain names pending the ruling – this has meant that the online casinos have no idea the fate of their domain until tomorrow afternoon. Both sides have presented their arguments, and call me biased, but it seems pretty clear that the Kentucky government is a bit out of its league with this legislation. The state of Kentucky would have unprecedented power over the internet casinos and could force the sites to comply with nearly any ruling with the threat of domain closure as the alternative to non-compliance.