Fortune Lounge Online Casino Group Down

Published: Friday, August 05, 2005 Online-Casinos.com

FORTUNE LOUNGE CASINO GROUP DOWN

Anonymous email spam allegations shut online casino group down over the weekend

The dangers of unquestioned acceptance of anonymous "spam-police" complaints was illustrated last weekend when the large Fortune Lounge group of online casinos had to endure an expensive suspension offline by domain registrar GoDaddy, allegedly on complaints of spamming by the spam monitor SpamHaus, an anonymous organisation that is remarkably hard to contact.

Early reports suggest that GoDaddy acted without first contacting FL with the complaints, something which FL management were investigating as we went to press. FL outsources its email marketing, awarding the contract on warranties against spamming by the contractor.

The incident could have far-reaching consequences for all of the companies involved.

Affiliate sources told InfoPowa & Online-Casinos.com that they were surprised at the allegations levelled at the casino operator, explaining that the FL group went to some lengths to discourage affiliates from this practice, especially since the advent of the CanSpam Act.