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Bodog
Defeats
Patent
Trolls
November
28,
2007
Months
ago
patent
trolls
stole
the
domain
name
“Bodog.com”
out
from
under
Calvin
Ayre,
and
the
United
States
Courts
let
them
do
it.
However,
it
looks
like
Ayre
is
having
the
last
laugh
after
all,
and
the
trolls
can
continue
to
try
and
rip
someone
else
off
because
the
government
will
let
them.
Ayre
was
the
owner
of
the
wildly
popular
Bodog.com
and
online
casino
and
gambling
website,
which
is
now
located
at
Bodog
Life.com
instead.
Patent
trolls
had
stolen
the
domain
name
Bodog.com
from
him
and
were
hoping
that
he
would
pay
them
hundreds
of
thousands
of
dollars
to
get
the
domain
name
back.
Instead,
Ayre
quickly
moved
all
of
his
online
gambling,
casino
and
entertainment
ventures
to
another
site
–
BodogLife.com.
The
patent
trolls
may
have
been
successful
in
getting
the
courts
to
agree
to a
patent
infringement
case
and
letting
them
keep
the
domain
name,
but
without
the
casino
itself,
the
domain
name
is
worthless.
There
will
still
be
those
that
go
to
the
site
not
knowing
that
there
is a
new
site
to
go
to,
but
those
that
do
will
quickly
be
brought
to a
page
that
shows
them
the
actual
way
to
go
is
to
the
new
site.
The
trolls
have
the
old
site
and
the
ones
that
were
linked
to
it,
but
Ayre
has
a
new
site
and
due
to
the
hoopla
it
is
more
popular
than
ever
before.
Ayre
however,
gets
the
last
laugh.
When
the
trolls
at
1st
Technologies
first
took
his
domain
site
it
was
worth
roughly
$692,580.
Since
that
time,
the
price
of
the
domain
has
dropped
at
least
75%
and
now
it
is
worth
less
than
$264,930
–
and
that
number
is
steadily
dropping.
For
without
the
online
casino,
it
is
simply
a
domain
name
–
nothing
more.
For
his
part
Ayre
has
seen
his
new
site
gain
in
growth
and
in
worth
– it
is
now
worth
more
than
a
million
dollars.
It
seems
that
in
trying
to
hurt
or
destroy
Bodog,
1st
Technologies
actually
made
them
stronger
and
more
financially
viable.
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