Tag Archives: kentucky domain seizure

Tue 21st April 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Electronic Frontier Foundation Asks Kentucky Court to Uphold Domain Decision - EFF and other organizations ask Kentucky Supreme Court to uphold lower court decision. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky filed a friend of the court brief with the Kentucky Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s decision blocking the seizure of gambling domain names. According to an EFF press release: “No state can order a domain name registrar over which it ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2009
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What Domainers Should (and Shouldn’t) Do Post Kentucky - Here are some things for domainers to consider now that the Kentucky case has been overturned. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned a trial court’s ruling that the state could seize domain names associated with online gambling. The Court of Appeals ruled that domain names weren’t “gambling devices”, which was part of the statute used to justify seizing the domains. As Michael Berkens pointed out, this is a narrow victory. Electronic Frontier Foundation ... read more ...