An important online gaming
news site reported that UltimateBet.com, CakePoker.com and DoylesRoom.com are
some of the online poker room domains that had been seized by the commonwealth of Kentucky on yesterday night after the
hosting company, GoDaddy.com, decided to pass on several domain registries to
the commonwealth. According to the news release, the hosting company said that
they have decided to cooperate with the commonwealth by turning over the
domains currently owned by several online poker rooms and gambling companies yesterday after
5:00 pm.
Judge Thomas Wingate of the
Franklin Circuit Courtroom said today that until he finalizes his deliberation,
the commonwealth
of Kentucky must leave all
online poker and casino sites right as they are operating now, which means that
the commonwealth can’t shut down any of the GoDaddy registered sites until the
Judge gives this final word on next Wednesday. But even when the recent domain seizures
have caused general concern among the online poker community, the gaming
industry didn’t give up in its effort to clarify this issue and expose their
arguments to convince the judge that a domain name could not be considered
"property" as the commonwealth
of Kentucky claims.
Now the online gaming community
will have to wait another week to see what’s going to happen with the 141
domains targeted by Kentucky’s
Gov. Steve Beshear, and until then, all sites will remain cautious but
operating as usual.
