Bodog online
casino owner enjoys rebound
Calvin Ayre, owner of the
popular online casino and gambling website Bodog Life, enjoys a
rebound in domain value.
Patent
trolls created one of the biggest controversies in the online
gambling industry by snatching the domain name "Bodog.com" with
the help of the U.S. Courts, right out of the hands of owner
Calvin Ayre, using a patent infringement case to take the
valuable domain, along with a few others, part of the
entertainment package offered by Bodog. The online gambling firm
was quick to move the online casino and the rest of the services
to a new domain name:
BodogLife.com and the owner of
the Bodog brand, Calvin Ayre, has posted on his blog "...2.5
months of having all of Bodog's old domains black holed by the
Patent Trolls over at 1st Technologies, domain evaluation
experts say Bodog's original domains have lost over 75% of their
value, while the new Bodoglife domain is now worth over $1
million dollars and climbing."
According to Ayre, when the Bodog.com
domain name was snatched, it was appraised for $692,580 and as
of November 14th the domain was worth $264,930. Is the Bodog.com
domain really worth $260,000+? Not really - without the online
casino, poker and betting services behind it - there is really
nothing to Bogod but the occasional type-in traffic and
forgotten old ad-banners. Patent trolls: 0 - Bodog online
casino: 1.
Published on
11/21/2007
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