BREAKING: DoJ to return poker domains
The 'Pokerstars.com' and 'Fulltiltpoker.com' domains will be returned by the US Department of Justice so player funds can be returned.
The United States Department of Justice will return the dot.com domain names which it seized from Pokerstars and Full Tilt last Friday.
According to a release sent out this afternoon, the return is part of a domain-name use agreement designed “to facilitate [the] return of US player funds.”
The DoJ adds in today’s statement that it “will work with the poker companies to facilitate the return of funds to players.”
However, while they may be allowed to withdraw funds, players in the United States will still be unable to play real-money poker on the sites concerned.
Preet Bharara, U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York, confirmed that “No individual player accounts were ever frozen or restrained, and each implicated poker company has at all times been free to reimburse any player’s deposited funds.”
The statement also mentions that “The Government stands to enter the same agreement with Absolute Poker if it so chooses.”
More to follow…