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BODOG REACTS TO DOMAIN LOSS.. New Name and URL etc. inside.

Please use this URL to reach BODOG's website until further notice...

http://www.newbodog.com/welcome/89241.html


Message from BODOG explaining why new temporary URL.

http://www.newbodog.com/about/why-newbodog-com.jsp

If anyone wishes to contact their Customer Service department for verification of the new domain, please call them at 888-263-0000.

More Details as to what actualy happened to date:

Surprise litigation shuts down traditional Bodog brands....but New Bodog.com now in action

The past 24 hours have been a torrid time for the webbies and owner of the Bodog.com brand. The online gambling and entertainment group, which trademarked its brands some time ago, has been under siege following a Seattle court order that has hamstrung its brands....at least for now.

Bodog staff put in plenty of overnight overtime to set up New Bodog.com as a temporary solution for an issue that has serious implications for the company and its business.

The first intimation that something was wrong was when players around the planet found they could not access the usual Bodog links on Tuesday. Amid confusion and concern, the gambling group stepped up to explain that the problems were the result of a dispute over the ownership of the Bodog.com domain name, which the group was fighting. In the meantime, an alternative site had been set up for the use of customers.

As Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa went to press it appeared that the US legal situation and Bodog's possible vulnerability in regard to appearing in the USA may have played a hand to the company's disadvantage.

On August 1st a Washington State judge in Kings County, Seattle issued a court order on the registrar for Bodog.com to have the domains taken down due to an unanticipated "patent infringement" claim.

It was part of an uncontested judgement in favour of a company called 1st Technology LLC against Bodog Entertainment Group, with the former apparently winning an award of $48 937 456.

It is not yet clear whether Bodog was aware of the action, or decided that it was too risky to enter the States or be represented in defending it. The group may not have wanted to give the USA the power of jurisdiction over it. In any event, Bodog did not appear and suffered for it.

Known Bodog registered domains have been suspended, and as an immediate 'bandaid' solution the company registered New Bodog.com - the company has trademarked the Bodog brand and founder and CEO Calvin Ayre has said it is going to fight the action with determination.

The implications for brand, business, search engine positioning and other elements are clearly significant.

According to Internet searches, 1st Technology LLC is "....a leading technology licensing company with a patent portfolio of advanced Internet and multimedia innovations.

"1st Technology is headed by Internet pioneer Dr. Scott Lewis who led the development of the world's first single integrated circuit chip with on-board video and audio compression, advanced adaptive digital signal processing technology at Oxford University, and introduced multiple broadband Internet and multimedia technologies. 1st Technology has a long list of industry leaders as licensees.

"The [alleged Bodog] violation relates to the method for the production and transmission of enhanced multimedia information.

"An optimization method is disclosed that enhances the interactivity of multimedia information. The optimization method includes separating a multimedia information into primary and secondary layers and enhancing that information in the primary layers such that the perceived psychographic information quality is improved. This method has the advantage of providing compression and/or transmission algorithms to maximize enhancement of the multimedia information."

"Nearly all aspects of the [Bodog] website have been updated to reflect the environment our clients are accustomed to," says Ayre. "We are working to resolve any of the minor remaining glitches on the alternate site, but other than that it is business as usual."

The timing of the litigation is significant and presumably intended - the first two to three weeks of North American football are the busiest of the year for online sportsbetting in that market sector.

Legal detail can be found at: http://www.metrokc.gov/kcscc/daily%2...7judgments.txt in case number 07-9-21969-8 dated 8/1/2007, and at http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa...asesearchTerms



Thank you, wilheim..



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Notice to all BODOG Players

If you have any pending wagers from before BODOG made this name change please check and make sure they are still in your pending wagers folder and are correct. If not there is no need to start a thread that BODOG is out to rob you or anything like that because they are not.

Simply show some professionalism and email me at:

wilheim@therx.com Back-up CC to person19481950@yahoo.com.


Please include your poster name, the BODOG account the number you play with and a brief description of what your bet or bets were. I will be on it immediately. No one at BODOG wants to steal your props or pending wagers..

Please try to be certain you actually had a pending wager before you email me..



Thanks, wilheim..
 

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Will you have to change the name o newbodog at the top of this page?
 

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Wil, this will be their new domain name from now on? Patent infringement appeals can take a while. Guess we better just switch over. No problem
 

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What I don't understand is how 1st Tech got hold of their domain name so quickly. We're only talking about 3 weeks after the decision. I deal with these judgments in court daily and I've never seen one done so fast unless it's an Unlawful Detainer. What give with that?
 

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I'm not putting any money into bodog through the new site or over the phone. There are so many good sites out there where the CEO is not in jail and the cite has not been changed.

I have a feeling that if you lose your money, you will be saying "i thought something was fishy".

GOOD LUCK,
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I'm not putting any money into bodog through the new site or over the phone. There are so many good sites out there where the CEO is not in jail and the cite has not been changed.

I have a feeling that if you lose your money, you will be saying "i thought something was fishy".

GOOD LUCK,
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Where is it reported that Calvin is in jail ?
 

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Let me nip this in the bud early.

Calvin Ayre is not in jail, nor are any other BODOG executives. This domain name suit is a civil matter and not a criminal one.




Thanks, wilheim
 

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This could actually be used as a new weapon for the DOJ. They could file lawsuits and copywrite infringement cases against large online betting joints and make them show up in US court to defend themselves. Then they could detain them and extort money from them like Neteller. Not showing up would cause them to lose their domain name which can cost them 100's of millions.
 

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This could actually be used as a new weapon for the DOJ. They could file lawsuits and copywrite infringement cases against large online betting joints and make them show up in US court to defend themselves. Then they could detain them and extort money from them like Neteller. Not showing up would cause them to lose their domain name which can cost them 100's of millions.
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Calvin Ayre is not in jail, nor are any other BODOG executives. This domain name suit is a civil matter and not a criminal one.




Thanks, wilheim

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I'd recommend every book out there get a .co.cr or .co.uk domain promptly...
 

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I was just looking around at lines and noticed I cant bring up the bodog site, did they get shut down?
 

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Lost there Domain name....Were have you been.....? Click thru up top
 

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I know better than to bet through bodog, so no need to visit there site.
 

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