Server Problems For Sportingbet
Published: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
SERVER PROBLEMS FOR SPORTINGBET
World Gaming failure highlights the need to find another host
The UK newspaper The Guardian reported that Sportingbet suffered another blow to its US-facing online gambling business this week after World Gaming, which hosts its web servers in Antigua, announced it may be forced to cease trading.
World Gaming, which had, until recently, been the subject of takeover talks with Sportingbet, suspended trading in its shares earlier this week, saying there was a "fundamental uncertainty" over its ability to continue trading (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa bulletins).
A spokesman for Sportingbet refused to comment, but the newspaper says that the company is understood to be urgently seeking alternative web server providers willing to be linked to the controversial industry.
Sportsbook.com and other US-facing bookmaking and casino websites all operate on World Gaming servers in Antigua. Only its Paradise Poker site is operated separately. Last week World Gaming announced it "may be in technical default of its loan conditions", blaming the imminent enactment of the legislation in the US.
