Tag Archives: Steve Beshear

Mon 17th November 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Common Sense Comes to Kentucky - Finally, someone with common sense lays the hammer on Kentucky’s Governor. A Kentucky appeals court has granted a motion to stay the forfeiture hearing for 141 gambling related domain names until it can hear arguments. Of course the appeals court could still make a blunder, but this is further proof that U.S. courts eventually get most things right and prevent injustice. Although painful and expensive for domain owners, the fact that U.S. courts have a good appeals ... read more ...
Fri 26th September 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Governor Beshear Has Bitten Off More Than He Can Chew - Governor of Kentucky’s drastic step to seize domain names may backfire. Beshear: Public Enemy #1 I haven’t written about what’s going on in Kentucky yet. Frankly, I was so dumbfounded by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s action to seize online gambling domain names that I didn’t know what to write. Yesterday I got a call from a reporter for The Courier-Journal and I spent about a half hour talking through the issues with her. (You can see her article here.) ... read more ...