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Texas Lottery Hits Jackpot, Wins 3 Domain Names
Texas Lottery wins three domain names in arbitration.

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Story Appeared Sept 9, 2010

The Texas Lottery Commission has won a big prize, taking home three domain names through arbitration — including one that gets over 65,000 visits a month.

The group filed the complaint against The Lotto Report for LottoTexas.com, LottoTexas.net, and Megaplier.org. Megaplier is the name of a lotto add-on in the state that lets people multiply their winnings. LottoTexas.com is a big traffic domain, and Compete.com shows it getting nearly 20,000 uniques and over 65,000 visits in July. The domains are forwarded to various pages on LottoReport.com.

The Lotto Report said it bought LottoTexas.com and LottoTexas.net from their previous owner in 2008. They were active web sites before that, and The Lotto Report says it has maintained them by posting lotto results, rule changes, and news.

The Lotto Report had a chance to win the case, but was probably doomed because the web sites included links to the respondent’s paid subscription service. The respondent tried to argue that the subscription service was unsuccessful and winding down, but the panelist found this irrelevant.

Comments & Opinions by Dawn Nettles - www.lottoreport.com

I play the lottery and I lose every time I play - I generally taking losing as a part of life. I move on. I don't let any thing get me down. In the case of losing my domain names, when I make a final decision on what I plan to do - fight them or not fight them - I will be at peace.

I don't mind losing if it's a fair fight, but in this case, I don't feel as though it was fair. This is because the sole WIPO panelist, Roberto Americo Bianchi, who made the decision to give the TLC my domain names, made a mistake in his decision indicating to me that he didn't read or fully consider our response plus he has a track record of ruling in favor of big businesses. His decision came fast - too fast to have examined and considered all the documents he possessed.

Here is one of the mistakes found in his decision and the only one I can tell you about at this time ...

Notice that he emphasizes "after" (he didn't underline it in his decision, it was just italicized) - well ... the problem is we not only stated that I had been recognized as a "watchdog" since as early as 1999 in our response - which was long before I obtained lottotexas.com in Dec 2008 - but we also included 100 of 209 news stories for proof.

IF he had read our material carefully, he would have seen the vast majority of the news stories were regarding the game - Lotto Texas. What happened to common sense and reasoning? "watch dog" ... "lotto texas" ... "texas lottery"

IF he had truly read the news summaries, I don't believe the above statement would be found in his decision as it wasn't necessary since he states in the next paragraph that even if I had demonstrated that I was commonly called the Lotto Texas Watchdog, it wouldn't have made any differences to him.

So here is what I'm going to do for my lottotexas visitors. Because the domain name is in jeopardy, I am making it my home page at www.lottoreport.com. It will always be there and you can depend on having the results and payouts after every draw fast.

Just save the new address in your favorites. The Texas Lottery can't touch this domain name so it will be a safe and reliable site for all of you - www.lottoreport.com.

In case you are wondering why the Texas Lottery did this, it's because they don't want you to know the things I tell you.

Now go on and get your drawing results which is why you came here in the first place! Click here.