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It really isn’t that surprising that Microgaming is one of the first online casino gambling companies to implement blocking technology on Kentucky residents. The company only has roughly 30 days to effectively implement the change or else they will face the judge at the forfeiture hearing and could face the loss of the Microgaming.com domain name. Microgaming has instituted the IP blocking on all of the company’s internet gambling software and payment services. This means that all of the online casinos that license Microgaming software will have no chose but to also block gamblers in the 13 targeted US states.

The US states listed previously comprise the states that have explicit legislation in place against forms of internet gambling. Up until this point the offshore online casinos had little reason to enforce the US’s ban on internet gambling. The federal legislation on the subject, the UIGEA is hugely flawed and has little recourse for enforcing the restrictions on online caisno gambling companies licensed and operating outside of the US. The UIGEA looks to specifically block the financial transactions between the US gamblers and the offshore internet casinos. Since the UIGEA regulations have not been implemented though, two years after the legislation passed, many foreign companies ignored the US ban on internet gambling.

But the Kentucky case puts the whole situation at a new level. Now the foreign online casinos have a lot to lose for non-compliance. For this reason, Microgaming is the first of many internet gambling groups that are likely to institute geo-blocking technology for Kentucky residents specifically (may companies may choose to similarly block all of the questionable US states).