Judge orders handover of Bodog domains

Guess I missed this one.

The online casino bodog has lost most of its domains, bodog.com is now owned by 1^st technologies.

1st Technology sued Bodog in a federal court, alleging the online gaming company was illegally using a “method and system for interactively transmitting multimedia information over a network which requires a reduced bandwidth” - sounds vague?

So what went wrong for bodog? They failed to attend the court hearing so a default judgement was made in favour of 1^st technologies. Judge Roger L. Hunt ordered Bodog to pay (including interest) $48,937,456 to 1st Technology in March for patent infringement.

Bodog failed to pay the fine so on August 21st, Judge John Erlick ordered all registrars to transfer Bodog related domains to the control of 1st Technology.

The US really hates online gaming don’t they.

Very scary that a US court can make such a ruling against a company that operates outside of the US. Why didn’t bodog see this coming? Could they of?

Bodog have reacted by having a new domain, newbodog.com J bodog.co.uk is obviously unaffected. Will they buy them back, how much for?

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