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State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 25, 2008 @05:11AM from the when-the-state-is-an-avaricious-prig dept.

ashmodai9 writes "In a rather interesting (read: insane) decision, a district judge in the State of Kentucky has awarded control of 141 online gambling domain names to the governor of the state. Most of these are hosted offshore, and very few are registered under US domain name registrars, let alone registrars in the State of Kentucky (are there any?). You can check out the press release here, and confirm that the Commonwealth of Kentucky does in fact now 'own' these domain names by performing a WHOIS search on any of the domains listed here."

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Given its about American people... by Adolf+Hitroll · 2008-09-25 05:15 · Score: -1, Troll

I'm not surprise to hear about them stealing... but if it's from other Americans, I guess it's poetic justice...

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Re:A few of these morons and by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-25 05:43 · Score: -1, Troll

At least they're not a bunch of puritanical hypocrites.
Re:A few of these morons and by fitsnips · 2008-09-25 06:04 · Score: -1, Troll

No there just a bunch of criminal, that so much better.

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Re:no. just imagine by Venik · 2008-09-25 07:20 · Score: 0, Troll

So why are Russia or China worse than the gang of thieving neocons in the White House? Personally, I have more confidence in the UN than in the State of Kentucky.