A review of the online gambling domain names by the Kentucky Supreme Court

October 26th, 2009

The protracted legal battle between Governor Steve Beshear and the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) over the attempted seizure of 140 domain names has finally reached the Kentucky Supreme Court.
This week, the Kentucky court will review the state’s appeal of a lower court ruling that an old statute forbidding gambling [...]

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Google will allow advertising for online gambling in UK

October 20th, 2008

Google received the highest approval, from the Queen, to allow companies to buy sponsored links for the online gambling in UK. Google stopped advertising online gambling in the search results pages in 2004 after the US Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) and the express claim of the US [...]

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Gambling Media: Kentucki vs. Online Gambling

October 18th, 2008

Although Kentucky’s culture is generally considered to be Southern, it is unique and also influenced by the Midwest and Southern Appalachia. The state is known for bourbon and whiskey distiling, tobacco, horse racing, and gambling.
The biggest day in horse racing, the Kentucky Derby, is preceded by the two-week Kentucky Derby Festival [...]

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Big drop in US gambling revenue

July 11th, 2008

US gambling revenue dropped  15% in May. In Las Vegas, the percentage is 16.4%. As for Atlantic City, the casinos gambling revenue down 11% in June, comparing with the same month of the last year (a single casino shows an increase in revenue, Harrah’s Resort Casino). In Illinois, gambling revenue was [...]

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Barack Obama accused of illegal online gambling

July 9th, 2008

On the campaign’s national website, Obama ask for donation between $5 and $2300 in exchange of a chance for every donor to be chosen as one of the 10 supporters to meet Barack backstage in Denver.
Tom Barrett, head of the Minnesota Gambling Control Board, consider that this is an illegal raffle and a [...]

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No clarification for online gambling

June 29th, 2008

The House Financial Services Committee voted down a bill, H.R. 5767, that would have prevented federal agencies from issuing rules implementing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Lawmakers failed to agree on setting a clear definition of illegal Internet gambling.
Alabama Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus says that “Today’s vote was a [...]

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Betfair

June 24th, 2008

Betfair

Type
Betting exchange

Genre
Online gambling

Founded
2000

Founder
Andrew Black and Edward Wray

Headquarters
London, United Kingdom

Website
http://www.betfair.com/

Betfair is the world’s largest Internet betting exchange. The company is based in Hammersmith in West London, England.
Since Betfair was launched in June 2000 it has become the largest online betting company in the UK and the largest bet exchange in the world. [...]

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Predictions for the gambling industry

June 18th, 2008

Gambling revenue will grow to $155 billion in 2012 from a 2007 revenue of $114 billion with an annually rate of 6.5 percent per year, says PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in a report released this week.
Asia, and especially Macau, will be the world’s fastest growing gambling region.
In accordance with this report, the US revenue [...]

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France to allow online gambling

June 12th, 2008

France accepted the rules imposed by the European Union and will allow online gambling operators starting with the middle of the next year.
Online casino and poker sites will be able to operate gradually, the details will be established soon.

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Gambling affiliate

May 19th, 2008

A gambling affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity.
We well define the gambling corporative, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. It can be a casino, poker room, bingo halls, lotteries, sports betting agency, as well as hotels, restaurants, [...]

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US judge rejects online gambling

May 17th, 2008

Lee Rousso, the Washington State Director of the Poker Players Alliance, filed a lawsuit on July 1, 2007, seeking to have UIGEA declared unconstitutional, considering that the new law discriminated against interstate businesses and, thus, violated the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. He said that UIGEA was supported [...]

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Legal online gambling in America

May 12th, 2008

During July 29-30, 2008, will take place the conference Next Generation in Gambling (NGG) (Exploring multi-channel delivery of games to customers while complying with federal and state laws in Canada, United States and Latin America).
The event will target the casino, racing, and lottery companies working in North American jurisdictions, focusing to [...]

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Who Owns the Internet?

May 9th, 2008

An already tested method to defeat the online gambling companies started to act again, after Bodog.
1st Technology made a complaint against several companies including Digital Gaming Solutions SA, Costa Rica International Sports, Action Poker Gaming Enterprises and SBG Global; two Norwegian companies: Playsafe Holding AS and eCom Enterprises; and Digital Gaming [...]

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South Africa will regulate online gambling advertising

February 5th, 2008

NCOP Economic and Foreign Affairs Committee wants to modify the National Gambling Amendment Bill, in order that only licensed interactive gambling providers may advertise  interactive gambling in its generally accepted form of remote gambling.
There it is still under discussions between the various provinces the way the online gambling [...]

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Gambling Media: US elections 2008 from a gambling perspective

February 3rd, 2008

Californians energized by unprecedented primary election
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
Propositions 94-97 are referendums that would repeal the gambling compacts with a no vote. Those measures have attracted by far the most spending of any of …
Gambling interests funded ad campaign
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY
Beshear said during the campaign that he [...]

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Netherlands will act against the companies that infringe online gambling ban

January 30th, 2008

The Dutch justice ministry introduced new regulations that will held criminally liable the banks and credit card companies that will facilitate online gambling on foreign sites for the Dutch citizens.
In accordance with Dutch News, in some months it will be published a list with the banned web sites (this decision [...]

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UK white list for online gambling advertising, updated

January 17th, 2008

U.K. Gambling Act of 2005 went into effect Sept. 1, 2007, restricting online gambling advertising to only those companies based in the United Kingdom or other countries in the European Economic Area. The EEA consists of the 27 countries in the European Union together with Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. Countries [...]

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Finland strategy to ban online gambling

January 16th, 2008

The new borders of the Internet started with the online gambling. Internet meant, at its beginning, freedom of information, products and services. Now, it keeps from less to less this initial meaning.
I am a fun of the online gambling, especially online poker, but now I see it like an animal in a [...]

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My predictions come true: a new Las Vegas in Russia

January 10th, 2008

My predictions about the boom of the gambling industry in Russia come true sooner than I expected. Russia’s Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov set up a gambling zone, Azov-City, in the Scherbinovsky district of Krasnodar area and the Azov district of Rostov region. A budget of about 18 billion [...]

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Mobile gambling redivivus?

January 3rd, 2008

Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe) is financing the UK-based gambling company betNOW. This way gamblers can place bets via text message, with the actual wagers charged to phone bills. Winnings can be picked up at local post offices. Balderton Capital invested also in Betfair. I know myself another [...]

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