Comments on: Kentucky Circuit Court Dismisses Objections to Seizure of Gambling Domains

By: Kentucky Appeals Court Shuts Down Attempted Domain Seizure | Domain Name News

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:32:19 +0000

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By: Kentucky Wants Gambling Domains | Domain Spats & Disputes

Kentucky Wants Gambling Domains | Domain Spats & Disputes — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:20:54 +0000

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By: David

David — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:23:09 +0000

Canada are a bit safer

Well, here’s something probably new for you: one of Canada’s prosecution laws might prevent you from posting online details of a pending criminal case. While I’ve yet to read of anyone’s domain name seized for that sort of thing, strange things have happened.

Various jurisdictions, if not every one of them, is going to have some possibly “strange” law people might not be aware of, especially if you’re outside there and what you have is subject to their laws. There’s always the risk someone is going to try to hold you liable somehow, although we live with that risk everyday anyway.

Oh, and maybe go for Switzerland, the Bahamas, etc. :D

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:41:18 +0000

How crazy is it that the US lets people gamble in one region (Las Vegas) and arrests people and seizes assets in another (Kentucky) Crazy.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:39:17 +0000

Utopian I doubt, but many countries do protect individual rights a bit better. England and Canada are a bit safer, I’m sure there are many others. It seems most larger corps have located their assets as far away from Uncle Same as possible, offshore and de-regulated. Regular business practice.
ICANN away from US law and US control asap would be a good start.

Best Regards.

By: Frank Michlick

Frank Michlick — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:43:56 +0000

Moving to registrars in other jurisdictions is not a great long term approach to solving this problem – after all ICANN is still under US law for all purposes, so the next step for someone trying to enforce local laws is going to to the registry or the regulator (ICANN) in order to take domains off the Internet.

By: Adam Strong

Adam Strong — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:57:17 +0000

“A more stable country with better personal rights laws should be used to protect these assets from parasites.”

What utopian country would this be ?

By: steve

steve — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:08:05 +0000

this is why control of the domain/www system needs to be moved outside of the US. A more stable country with better personal rights laws should be used to protect these assets from parasites.
At least move your best domains to registrars outside of the US. Clean generics are at risk as well in the US. If they want it they will take it, it’s obvious for the last 8+ yrs.

By: Chris Nielsen

Chris Nielsen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:52:33 +0000

My first thought is that if Kentucky doesn’t want it’s ISPs to provide access to gambling sites, that the Kentucky ISPs should be required to block access. This way, as Kentucky residents complain to the ISPs, ALL offensive sites can be blocked, and they really will be blocked. If the gambling sites block all Kentucky IPs, residents can just go to the sites anyway by using proxy servers like say AOL.com, which I’m sure most of them do…!

On the other hand, perhaps this is the beginning of the end of the free Internet as we know it?

No, I don’t really think so. Those domain owners, online casino owners, and many others (Gamblers) will be whipped into a frenzy will all band together and put Kentucky in it’s place. After all, they have more money and resources that any one state. :-)

Meanwhile, those of us with proxy domains need to decide if we are going to put them up for sale or build out sites…!