Bodog Poker apparently loses control of domain name in lawsuit

August 28th, 2007

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We reported earlier today on the apparent loss of control by Bodog over the Bodog.com domain name. At the time of that story, there were few reports regarding the cause for the loss of control, and Bodog’s statement alluded only vaguely to legal issues.

Now reports are surfacing that the domain was awarded to a US citizen as part of a judgment stemming from a patent suit against Bodog that the company failed to respond to. As reported on ShoeMoney.com:

“Earlier today the Bodog website (bodog.com) went down. Many people thought it was just technical issues. A good friend inside Bodog pinged me and told me that the site was actually yanked out from under Bodog’s hands earlier today.

Apparently, some guy in the US who was awarded a patent for something to do with taking bets online filed a lawsuit against Bodog awhile back. Bodog didn’t respond because they are not a US company. So a judge awarded a default judgment of 50 million.

Yesterday, the guy with the judgment used it to seize control of Bodog’s domain names from Enom. Almost all of their sites are now offline, and now they are going to loose all of their SERPS.”

We’ll have more updates and info as they becomes available.

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