According to Xbiz.com, "The Free Speech Coalition says it is looking into legal options available for performers affected by the PornWikileaks.com site, which has exposed volumes of personal data information on thousands of performers." “Free Speech Coalition stands in opposition to the violations of performer privacy by PornWikileaks,” FSC Executive Director Diane Duke said Friday. “This is … [Read more...]
Business Insider: Meet The Boy Genius Who Just Took Down The Online Poker Industry
BusinessInsider.com just published a article entitled "Meet The Boy Genius Who Just Took Down The Online Poker Industry" citing a story published by Australia's Courier-Mail newspaper. The article tells the story about an Australian, Daniel Tzvetkoff "who set up the payment processing schemes used by the biggest poker sites to handle their (mostly illegal) transactions". According to … [Read more...]
Why Is Anyone Surprised Over Yesterday’s Gambling Domain Seizures & Why No Publicly Traded Company Got Charged
Just days after Washington DC announced it was legalizing online gaming including online poker, the US Government charged the operators of the largest online poker sites PokerStars, FullTiltPoker, AbsolutePoker (using UB.com) all offshore companies, on charges of, violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, operation of illegal gambling business, conspiracy to commit bank and … [Read more...]
Sears Files Suit Over DieHardSpray.com
According to Chicagobreakingbusiness.com Sears has filed a suit against the company who registered the domain DieHardSpray.com, which is being used “in connection with a ‘numbing agent for male genitalia,’" The suit alleges that the domain registration and use has "diminished, blurred, and tarnished, and will likely continue to diminish, blur, and tarnish Sears famous DieHard … [Read more...]
Story Of The Year? Court Orders Google To Disclose Parked Domain Metrics
Media Post May have just found the story of the year for domainers. A judge presiding over a potential class-action lawsuit by search marketers against Google, has ordered the company to divulge financial metrics associated with its parked domains program." "The data that Google must disclose concerns its assessment of the quality of sites within its AdSense network, including its parked … [Read more...]
US Not The Only Country To Seize Domains: Nominet Shuts Down More Than 3,000 .Co.Uk Sites
According the telegraph.co.uk, Nominet, the not-for-profit company that controls the registry of “dot uk” domain names, held a meeting in London on Monday, with authorities including the Metropolitan Police and the Serious and Organized Crime Agency which both lobbied for a new system that would allow them to suspend “dot uk” domain names to tackle online crime. At the meeting … [Read more...]
IndianOil.com Beats Back A WIPO Challenge from Indian Oil Corporation Who Won A UDRP On IndianOil.Org In January
Back In January we wrote and criticized a WIPO decision handing the generic domain name IndianOil.Org to the Indian Oil Corporation Limited of New Delhi, India Back at the time we asked, knowing that the same company filed a UDRP against the com version , whether IndianOil.com would be next? Today we got an answer. No. In a three member panel WIPO decision entered today, the domain … [Read more...]