Not terribly unexpected that a number of presumably unrelated sites would trace back to the same server farm but the same IP?
[profile]Webzcas[/profile] would know the deal with things like this. Where's he at?
This coming from an industry that believes that when players can be traced back as sharing the same IP, they are immediately "red flagged" as possible multi-accounters, and we get the old "linked accounts" justification for restrictions and confiscations.
Either casinos know damn well that these are bullshit excuses for saying players are linked, or they know from experience that a shared IP is very STRONG evidence of linkage, beyond that of the IPs just being in the same group, such as a common server farm, or honest unlinked players that just happen to live in the same town and use the same ISP.
The casinos themselves may be separate, but maybe there is a link at a higher level, such as the ultimate beneficial (and of course secret) owners. This was pretty much the case with Rival, and the 4 top guys there were very careful to keep their names secret. When they were "outed", we saw all Canadians banned Rival wide in a knee-jerk reaction because this is where these secretive 4 guys lived. The Rival white labels also link back in many ways to the same central support, same processor, same central database, and same operating companies (Bonne Chance & Silverstone), which themselves were designed to obscure the trail that ultimately lead back to the 4 people at the top.
It could be that the structure at the top of RTG is more similar than they would have us believe, with RTG being far more than just the software supplier. RTG have already inserted the Hastings layer between themselves and the operators, most likely to obscure, than for clarity and transparency. They then allow Hastings to pretend to operate an independent complaints resolution process that rogue casinos can treat with contempt without fear of any sanction being applied by Hastings or RTG. Maybe the large number of supposedly independent RTG casinos are controlled by a much smaller, but secretive, group of owners.
We have already caught Virtual at it, pretending they have nothing to do with the mystery company that bought the old Crystal Palace casinos, yet Virtual promoted these supposed competitor casinos on their own fake independent review site, saying they were all "the best", and by pure coincidence, all offering the exact same bonus code to put into the cashier if you were a new player. I bet you will find these two groups also share the same IP addresses.
The next step would be to follow the counter argument, that is that it is simply the fact that they are RTG that causes this. It can be done by looking to see whether the accredited RTG casinos that we know are independent operations also show up as linked to each other in reverse lookup.
Apart from poor provision, having the same IP address for unrelated SECURE services could mean that if one is hacked, they are all exposed. In layman's terms, hack JC, and you have them all by the b******s.
The same applies to a home network sharing the same IP, hack into one device, you have access to them all.