they confiscated the DOMAIN NAMES. .com is a US based TLD, and most of the root servers are here as well.

This isn't particularly meaningful by itself, it just makes stars/tilt/ap jump through hoops as far as the domain names they use.

They did this to bodog too, and I bet noone even remembers that.

This site was called atdhe.net

America is a ****ing joke taking down international websites. They think they own the world.

Still cannot access withdrawal option at cashier on FT... PS seems fine so far.

Anyone else?

In England and just did a $50 test withdrawal from ftp, which went through fine.

Couldn't this simply be a web site hack? Why would multiple (and separate) businesses be affected by some arrest warrant at the exact same time?

Also, only AP is showing up like this for me, and the jpg is named http://www.absolutepoker.com/banner7.jpg - this seems more like hax than something official.

Ugh.....nm then.

Can't withdrawl at all on full tilt

works fine for me too but I bet it won't for long.


FML is this the end?

Was just reported on CNBC a few minutes ago. Major sites charged with fraud.

How about you all go to Reuters and check out the headline story at the top of the site: http://www.reuters.com/

http://twitter.com/CNBC

so, we don't really have anything better to do with our time and resources than seize internet poker domain names? really?

This is not a joke. Check out the breaking news banner at http://www.reuters.com/

Im in Indiana and all work find except pokerstars.com but I can play on the client itself fine

This is an automated message sent from Full Tilt Poker.

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Date and Time: 2011-04-15 14:01:44
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Amount: $500.00 (USD)

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immediately. Bank transfer withdrawals may take up to 10 - 15
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This is what is so frustrating about twitter, why can't they at least link an article or something with more information?

are they shutting down the websites or the entire poker client?
If they are shutting down the poker client, what about all the legal european, australian, asian etc players who have nothing to do with the stupid uiega crap. How does that affect all the legal players?

Brobama does what he wants. I just don't understand how they could block access to it from countries where online gambling is legal. Last round of domain seizures was Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement going after bootleg music, movies, and software domains.

wow

About 0% chance this is due to state differences imo, probably just the DNS not updated yet.

I get the FBI warning within EU, and someone from UK posted that its the same for him. (Stars has a valid UK license i think?) Would be quite weird if its blocked in EU and working in some US states.

i can withdrawl. should i??

I think we're missing something here. These sites are charged with illegal gambling (duh) and fraud.

I really, really, really hate to think of this, but ... might UB not be the only one cheating users?

All of the mentioned+absolte down for me in Austria, can't cash out on ftp either

i put a request in about an hour ago on ftp to cash out.

also im playing a session currently and nothing has happened to me.

Also, there is probably no coincidence that this is happening on Apr. 15, the Friday before taxes are due in the states.

OMFG......Im east coast and ALL still working properly here!