Bodog Closed

[seawasp]

This is pretty wierd and seems quite silly for a big outfit like Bodog to screw up like this. I suspect they will just come back with a new domain name of some sort.Bodog Closed

[yoyo]

They fell victim to a fairly crafty, devious and well-timed attack (football season about to start) by a guy who put out a dubious "method patent" in 1995 on live casino dealers dealing games online.The guy is a scam artist with a team of lawyers and "method patenting" is fairly controversial in the US, tying up a lot of companies time each year with dubious litigation. Bodog doesn't even have online live dealer games and it's possible Bodog were never notified properly of the lawsuit or, more likely, they simply chose to ignore it and paid the price. One thing you can be sure of is that online casinos will all be rushing to make sure their brand names and URLs are protected in the next few days. The guy that got control of the URL bodog.com is nothing more than a scam artist who doesn't even run online live dealer casino games. He simply takes sites that do run these games to court and gets settlements out of them, which is probably what Bodog will do with the football season starting next week. On the other hand, Calvin Ayre is a fairly proud man who might take his army of lawyers against this other guys lawyers and slug it out in the courts. It might be tricky because Calvin Ayre and Bodog CEO's aren't as stupid as the NETeller founders and would never set foot on continental US and no doubt the scam-artist will be taking that into account - a settlement is the most likely result. I predict Bodog will have their URLs back within a week or 2.

[augustus20]

Will this "method patent" idea come into play if someone steals my idea to set up a neteller system for play money?

[Stick]

Sorry Augustus...I've already done it... it's called PlayPal...Man, the commissions are freakin' sweet... from commissions alone, I can now buy into the biggest play money games around...

[pana23]

bodog has a new domain name www.newbodog.comit all the same new name domain

[yoyo]

the bodog poker client still isn't workingand see how newbodog.com compares with bodog.com on google search rankings

[Blu3B3ar]

The programmers must be shockingly incompetent if the original client was linked to the address "bodog.com" (which is movable), instead of an IP address which is practically unmovable and contacts straight thru the gaming servers without the need of a DNS.

[yoyo]

well they did, cause the old poker client is not longer usable - you have to download and install an identical client from newbodog.com

[pomhat]

2nd hand info, but, apparently you lose all your notes etc with the new client.. however, theres a registry entry that you can change to make the old client work (by changing references of bodog to newbodog) - adverts will be broken though