Bodog Forced To Change Domain Name – Now This Is Screwed Up
August 30th, 2007
Written By: Adam Sussman
I am not 100% sure of all the details but a few days ago I heard Bodog.com, the online gaming portal had been forced to operate under a new domain, newbodog.com.
According to CasinoWire.com
Bodog were ordered that all domains were to be defaulted and transferred to 1st Technology LLC, a leading technology licensing company headed by Dr Scott Lewis. The reason behind this ruling is an alleged patent infringement.
1st Technology LLC claim that the method used by Bodog to transmit and produce certain multi media is illegal as it violates their patents. The patent in question was filed by Mel Molnick with the U.S. Patent Office in 1995 and published in 1998. The company originally sued Bodog in
A judge had ruled in this initial proceeding that the sum of $48,937,456 should be paid by Bodog, who failed to appear in court. The case then moved to
I was quickly reading David Naylor blog and I know he knows some people who have inside information. According to Naylor, his inside guy said
“If you can use a judgment to force enom to turn off domains, you could do the same thing to ICANN, which means you could sue anyone in the world and get their site turned off.”
From the little I understand, Bodog is not even an
If that is the case, then this is highly screwed up!
August 31st, 2007 12:53
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September 4th, 2007 08:26
I don’t think anyone would think it screwed up if someone determined that the proceeds of ecommerce from a non-US company were going to fund terrorism (I’m not suggesting that Bodog does so).
Fact is that online gambling is illegal in the US. Bodog had a chance to address this very important issue for the benefit of clearing up some of the vagueries of International e-commerce law, and they certainly have the resources to present the case as well as anyone, but chose not to appear… in either venue.
If they are unwilling to confront the issues, they should have to suffer the consequences of their inaction.
July 19th, 2008 22:26
Is this real ? This sounds insane.
This is probably why Calvin Ayre left the house
I wonder how this will turn out now that Bodog management is in new hands (Indian Gaming Commision).
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August 14th, 2008 05:32
Yeah, this was pretty screwed up. However, geetv made a good point - why didn’t Bodog defend itself?
All-in-all, it couldn’t have hurt them too bad. They still rank #1 for the term “bodog” and received a lot of controversial press that had people talking.
August 19th, 2008 06:22
Looking back on this now, it doesn’t seem to have had much of a lasting effect on Bodog’s brand. I think they had enough existing customers that were going to follow them to whichever domain they are currently at. Looks like overall, they made out ok.