Bodog's Domain Names Confiscated

**Mousey** · 14th September 2007, 12:17 PM

US-attachable assets

And that may be the straw that at least puts a crimp in the camel's back.

**jetset** · 14th September 2007, 02:42 PM

[QUOTE=Casinomeister;187478]I can attest to that. RTG has pretty much made themselves "untouchable"

You mean RTG. At first, I thought I missed something in this thread.

Yep, makes sense.

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Oops! Yeah, you're right - I meant RTG ownership - fingers typing one way - brain going the other LOL!!

**Random#rs** · 15th September 2007, 08:38 AM

Well we seem to be looking for faults in Calvin today, but Bodog always treated me right; just the opposite of the clip shot joints down there. I don't blame him for the slow pays to the U.S., everybody knows what's going on. In time, I think this will be fixed.

His software ... the 1Tech software ... I haven't heard diddly on the details here. Compression software?! There's a lot of this kind of software and none of its unique. Maybe Spearmaster could shed some light on this.....

Is this a hate Calvin fest; why? We haven't heard all the facts yet. If he creates a decent Casino that's decent to its players then I'd give him the benefit of the doubt for now.

On a side-note: I do love that place on the Island of the Dominican Rep he has down there. (in his blog) ... aah ... I'd like to try one of those Dominican Cigars he's got too!!

**NASHVEGAS** · 15th September 2007, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Random#rs

Well we seem to be looking for faults in Calvin today, but Bodog always treated me right; just the opposite of the clip shot joints down there. I don't blame him for the slow pays to the U.S., everybody knows what's going on. In time, I think this will be fixed.

His software ... the 1Tech software ... I haven't heard diddly on the details here. Compression software?! There's a lot of this kind of software and none of its unique. Maybe Spearmaster could shed some light on this.....

Is this a hate Calvin fest; why? We haven't heard all the facts yet. If he creates a decent Casino that's decent to its players then I'd give him the benefit of the doubt for now.

On a side-note: I do love that place on the Island of the Dominican Rep he has down there. (in his blog) ... aah ... I'd like to try one of those Dominican Cigars he's got too!!

No hate fest here. I am just delusional and hallucinating........I will get a doctor's appt. on Monday.

**jetset** · 19th September 2007, 06:43 AM

Looks like another Bodog domain change - this release just out:

September 18, 2007

St. Johns, Antigua

High stakes, hot women and killer parties in exotic locales - Bodog has always known how to roll. It's all part of the company's play hard philosophy and now it's all part of the Bodog life, as the digital entertainment giant is pleased to announce the launch of www.bodoglife.com

Recently, there have been changes at Bodog concerning the company's domain name. Bodog temporarily used newbodog.com after their root domain was hijacked in a frivolous patent dispute. In an effort to move to a more accurately-named home, the company is pleased to announce bodoglife.com.

"Hey, the world changes, and if you don't change with it, you get left behind. We've been leading the good times for a long time, and nobody will leave us behind," said Calvin Ayre, Bodog's founder. "That said, although the Bodog address is changing the bottom line is: at Bodog, it's business as usual. Same great site, just a new Web address."

Though the domain dispute caused some drama throughout the company, a talented staff of over 1000 people rallied together and maintained the billion dollar business on a strong growth curve during one of the busiest seasons.

In addition to debuting the new domains, the company launched a Football Fantasy site, announced the winner of their Bodog Battle of the Bands contest on fuse TV, launched multilingual customer service, had a Bodog qualifier at the final table of the World Series of Poker Europe and put a new season of Bodog Fight into post-production. Phew.

Bodog is still the most trusted place on the planet to get your kicks, whether they be poker, music, mixed martial arts, casino or sports betting.

This is Bodog. This is the life.

www.bodoglife.com. Play hard.

**bruceleo** · 20th September 2007, 01:55 AM

So this new domain seems to be THE new bodog site. I think the legal battle it's lost then.

**NASHVEGAS** · 26th September 2007, 06:32 AM

http://www.calvinayrelife.com/bodog-...-to-court/html

posted on 24 Sep 2007 by Calvin Ayre.

Click to play "Dueling Banjos"

The Patent Trolls over at 1st Tech have put together a case that has more holes than a golf course and smells worse than 100 pounds of raw meat left to rot in a back alley dumpster during a 2-month-old garbage strike.

On October 11th, 2007 Bodog and 1st Technology LLC will meet in Nevada court to argue the default judgment handed down to the gaming company by judge for the Superior Court of Kings County in Seattle, Washington. 1st Technology is saying the $48 million judgment is fair and good because Bodog was infringing upon its patent (United States Patent No. 5,564,001 entitled “Method and System for Interactively Transmitting Multimedia Information Over a Network which Requires a Reduced Bandwidth”) while operating out of the United States.

Prior to issuing those claims, 1st Tech should have done a more thorough job with their research. Here are the facts:

Bodog Entertainment SA the CR company is an international company and it does not have a presence in the United States and is not part of the Bodog Group of Companies and has no assets. Domains are not assets and the domains it held were on behalf of other companies.

United States patent disputes are not possible against an international company that does not operate within the United States, particularly one that does not have any operations that could even use a patented process.

Nobody involved with the company that was sued or anyone with BodogLife has any knowledge of anyone getting served and this is the basis of the appeal of the judgment on Oct 11th. You cannot have a valid default judgment without having valid service as far as we know.

We believe this ridiculous decision will be overturned and all the domains will be freed. However they will not be returned to their previous roll of prominence in Bodog's operating entities as this roll will be taken by the new BodogLife.com structure from here forward. My guess is that no matter what the outcome of this legal process, Raymond Niro and the 1st Tech Patent Trolls will never see anything but ridicule coming from Bodog as we have been clear since first finding out what these guys were doing when they grabbed the domains….the company they are in court with is not part of the Bodog group anymore, has zero operations and zero assets…and the BodogLife Gaming Group of Companies does not operate in the United States. They will spend a lot of money and we will generate a lot of press but they will figure this out eventually. Oh ya…did I mention they never served us?

This entry was posted on Monday, September 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

**jetset** · 26th September 2007, 06:45 AM

Googling Raymond Niro delivers quite a lot of information, including this:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1153299926232

By the looks of that blog entry Bodog's central defence remains pretty much the same - that they weren't served properly.

"Nobody involved with the company that was sued or anyone with BodogLife has any knowledge of anyone getting served and this is the basis of the appeal of the judgment on Oct 11th. You cannot have a valid default judgment without having valid service as far as we know."

Presumably Mohawk Morris will be the people appearing in court on the Bodog side in Nevada next month - that is going to be one very interesting hearing.

**NASHVEGAS** · 26th September 2007, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by jetset

Googling Raymond Niro delivers quite a lot of information, including this:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1153299926232

By the looks of that blog entry Bodog's central defence remains pretty much the same - that they weren't served properly.

Presumably Mohawk Morris will be the people appearing in court on the Bodog side in Nevada next month - that is going to be one very interesting hearing.

Can't even take a 20 minute break before you beat moi to it

...............Now I planned on checking TheColdEye but I bet (npi) you get there first

**jetset** · 26th September 2007, 07:11 AM

Nope - Paddy has some interesting things to say but speaking personally I tend to worry about reliability when these are overlaid with such abusive and markedly subjective personal comments.