More Domain Names And Gaming Operations Seized On Gray Monday.

The Department of Justice in Baltimore Maryland Has seized two online gaming businesses along with their international owners as part of a prolonged, undercover sting, information of which were released Monday after 11 associated banking accounts were seized in five countries and 10 Web domains were shut down. Homeland Security set up a phony payment processing business in Atlantic City and spent two years infiltrating the world of illegal online betting. If convicted of running an illegal gambling business, the defendants face a maximum of five years imprisonment. Money laundering includes a maximum sentence of 20 years.

The domain names seized were
• Funtimebingo.com
• Goldenarchcasino.com
• Truepoker.com
• Betmaker.com
• Truepoker.com
• Betmaker.com
• Betgrandesports.com
• Doylesroom.com
• Betehorse.com
• BetEd.com
• 2Betsdi.com

We now have heard lots of people say they can still access the sites stated earlier, but we believe this is just because it takes a while for the DNS records to take effect. Sometimes we get the dreaded DOJ page and sometimes we don’t. We will see what happens in the future.

Several of the domains seized this time were a part of the Yatahay Network like True Poker, Doyles Room, Bookmaker, 2betdsi, Betmaker, Betgrandesports, and Beted. Why so many are from one network in not known, but the spectrum of sites this time is greatly expanded to not just online poker sites, but online casinos, online sports books, and bingo sites.

When Black Friday happened the most significant online poker sites were targeted and soon after left the US market. We've not heard of any of the above mentioned sites leaving he United States market as of yet, but would not be surprised to see this happen in the next couple days. Return often as we'll be updating the site as the information comes available.