“Perspective's Weekly” is a production of the Association of Players, Casinos, and Web-masters (APCW). A recent edition of Perspectives Weekly carried an interview between Jay Todd of the APCW and former Absolute Poker employee Gian Perroni and the subject was the RCMP and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) “raid” on the Vancouver office of the Absolute Poker marketing arm. Egamingpulse quoted a source close to Absolute Poker at that time, who said that following the raid employees are working remotely as the office is effectively closed. The source also said that "(vital employees) have been given 3 months to relocate to Costa Rica or find another job."
We have since been told by another insider that the “raid” was triggered after the DOJ found information on the Absolute Poker Vancouver office’s location during a routine domain registration check. That check revealed that the AbsolutePoker.com website was registered using details that included the street address of the now-closed Vancouver office. The domain now carries a Corozal Town, Belize location. Using a domain registration detail search is not a technique known only to federal law enforcement agencies. Most internet marketers have used GoDaddy.com or a similar site to track down contact details of a company they want to get in touch with. The Online Gambling industry as a whole has been at the forefront of all internet marketing techniques and can lay valid claim to being the first to develop certain principles and ideas that were then employed outside the sector.
Given that, it is a little surprising what a quick domain search will turn up on some gaming operators.
