Online Gambling’s Second Chance

Not so long ago, the odds looked dim for legal online gambling in the US. Online poker lobbyists were pushing their own interests, which often meant denouncing online gambling as exclusively luck-based and therefore not in the same league with online poker which is skill-based. The dark days of illegal online gambling on offshore sites and at shady online casinos may soon be over though. An interesting DoJ ruling, which came just before Christmas last year, opened the way to the potentially legalization of online gambling, possibly this year. The DoJ’s ruling concerned the 1961 Wire Act, which – together with the 2006 UIGEA – formed the legal basis of the online gambling and online poker prohibition of recent years. As the legal haze around the whole thing was far from translucent, specialists often speculated that both online poker and gambling were in fact still legal in the US under the existing framework. No legal authority ever troubled clarifying anything in regards to the online gambling/poker case. It appears though that the DoJ has finally had enough of the legal ambiguity and decided to make a few things clear for everyone. According to the above said December ruling, the 1961 Wire Act does not prohibit real money wagering through online channels across state lines. It only prohibits sports betting wagers, and that was indeed the target of the lawmakers who had drafted the Wire Act back in the days.

Nevada had already passed legislation aimed at regulating online gambling and poker and so did DC, and with New Jersey eyeing a similar move, this may all just be the tip of the iceberg.

The question now no longer seems to be whether or not online gambling will be legalized and regulated in 2012, but rather on what level this will happen. The DoJ ruling has virtually unshackled states in the matter: any state that wants to can now legalize and regulate online gambling. Federal lawmakers are currently well aware of the fact that they need to make a move soon if they intend to push through federal regulation, otherwise the states may just beat them to it and regulate things for themselves. Federal-level legalization and regulation would be the preferred way to go according to many, as it would offer better safeguards against illegal and problem gambling and it would tackle regulation issues much more efficiently.

The path that led to the above said DoJ ruling was an interesting one: the ruling came in response to a question the states of New York and Illinois addressed to the DoJ. The two states were seeking clarification in the matter of lottery tickets and the Wire Act’s applicability over the online trading of these tickets. The resulting response was obviously a blessing for the online poker and online gambling industries. The possibilities opened by the ruling are truly bewildering indeed. Sites legalized and regulated in the US will not only be able to accept players from other states, they will also be able to accept players from outside the US. The potential for growth for such operations will therefore be quite limitless.

Affiliates will pop up too and old affiliates will be revived. The entire industry will finally breathe a sigh of relief, like a poker prop does when the monthly rake rebate lands in his poker account. He’s a smart online poker player!

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The annual ‘Online Bingo Site of the Year Awards’ are seen as one of the most prestigious in a very competitive industry. For 2011 WhichBingo has introduced two brand new awards, taking the total up for grabs to four. In addition to the usual Bingo Site of the Year and New Bingo Site of the Year, there are the new awards for TV Campaign of the Year and Promotion of the Year. The extra awards are recognition for how far bingo has come in 2011 and it’s now very much a part of the mainstream gaming industry in the UK.

Sites such as JackpotJoy and Tombola will be hoping to do well in the awards after both sites spent heavily on marketing during the year.

Last year the award was won by Sun Bingo, and after they used it in their newspaper promotions it has made the award even more sought after thanks to increased public awareness.

In the new sites category, of which there are around 50 candidates, there are once again a large number of Dragonfish skins (sites which are essentially the same, but have a different appearance). Some of the more innovative sites to launch this year will be hoping their unique features will help them win the award. These include Wonder Bingo, who also have a successful Facebook game, and Popstars Bingo, which features live bingo callers.

You can vote for your favourite sites at http://www.whichbingo.co.uk/online-bingo-site-of-the-year/ until December 31st. Winners are being announced in January 2012.

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What has been happening at Topboss in the past 6 months

It is hard to believe that we last did a Topboss update in December 2010 – time certainly flies!

What has Topboss been up to during the past 6 months? Quite a lot actually – there has been some good and some bad, but let us start with the bad so that we can end off on a positive note!

Simply put – Our industry is in turmoil at the moment – The online gambling industry was left reeling on April 15 2011, which has been dubbed as “Black Friday” when The US Justice Department unsealed an indictment against the founders of 3 of the largest poker rooms – Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and Poker Stars, seizing their domain names, freezing accounts and shutting them down. A week later they seized various bingo and casino sites which were all allowing USA players. In many cases they arrested the owners and charged them with money laundering offences under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ( UIGEA )

As a result, American gamblers were left without a legitimate place to bet online and were left wondering if they will ever see the money they have in accounts tied to the now frozen websites. This resulted in many other online casinos closing their doors before they were next on the grizzly Department of Justice list.

One of the programs which closed down was Best Casino Partner, but the problem is that they shut down their affiliate program and did not pay affiliates ( including ourselves ) but they continue to operate their casinos and are still taking deposits from players!! Read more about this at Topboss Affiliates.

We also had a blow of our own by having to hand over our white label casino – 32 Royal.com to 32 Red PLC who threatened to sue us if we did not hand the domain over to them as they apparently have a trademark on the number “32” . What Judge in their right mind can grant a trademark on a number???? But be that as it may – it was not worth fighting them as 32 Vegas who are owned by William Hill suffered the same fate after a long drawn out court case. The worst of it is that 32 Red had the cheek to send out a press release announcing the seizure of our domain, which makes our blood boil further!!

On the South African front – Piggs Peak announced the date for the appeal of the judgement against them which will determine whether it will be legal for online gamblers from South Africa to play at their casinos. We are keeping our fingers crossed that they win their appeal.

Now onto the good news!

Topboss MediaIn March 2011 we changed our name from Topboss Online to Topboss Media, as this is what we are about – media and advertising. We launched our new website – Topboss Media and our aim is to get a bigger presence on social media networks. You can now find us on Facebook – Topboss Media ( still a work in progress ) and Topboss Group and Twitter – Topboss and Topboss Media.

Did you know that Topboss also does Internet Banner Design ? We already design banners for many of the online casinos – static banners and flash banners, but we offer banner design for any industry – If you have a website and want to advertise your business on other websites – you need banners! Contact us for a quote. Our rates are reasonable.

We haven’t launched as many new websites as we normally do as we have been spending our time revamping and updating our existing websites, but of course we couldn’t resist adding a few new sites to our portfolio so here they are:

Casino Pounds is dedicated to UK Casinos , Online Casino Advisor is a general online casino review site and our 3 new blogs are Ipod Gaming, Blog Online Casinos and Blog Slots.

We are also still busy with our Frontpage to Dreamweaver conversion and have now completed Rand Casinos, Play in Euro, Casinos on the Web, Club 777 and Topboss UK

We have a new addition to our team – Tamaryn who is the Personal Assistant to the owners and does all of our video editing. Welcome to Topboss Tamaryn!

Well thats all folks – until our next update ……

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What happened at Topboss in 2010

Actually the title of this post is wrong. It should say ” Topboss Frantically finishes the last work before Christmas ” but that wouldn’t all fit in the subject line!!

Seriously, it has been a crazy hectic time for all the guys at Topboss. Asides from computers going on the blink, bee stings and switchboards being hit by lightening – it has been work, work and more work. Our guys certainly deserve a well needed break!

To give you an idea of the kind of pressure they are under – Topboss has nearly 150 live websites which all need to be updated regularly and we own a website design and hosting company which entails the design, maintenance and hosting of many client websites. Never mind all the added extras of liasing with Affiliate Managers, Players, Link Exchanges, Advertising, SEO work, analysing statistics, accounting functions and the usual admin and emails that one has to contend with on a daily basis.

They do all of this and more…but still manage to keep a smile on their faces!

It has been a challenging year at Topboss due to the ever changing gambling laws in the various countries, casinos closing their doors, changing their terms and conditions, changing their tracking links, changing their bonuses, reducing their deposit methods and many other frustrating aspects of the online casino industry.

However, the main thing is that we rode through the storm and are as optimistic as ever!

We have had quite a few achievements we are very proud of – We are now averaging 800 000 hits a month across our major sites, we got listed in DMOZ and got approved by eCogra as a “reputable portal” .

We gave 32 Royal a complete facelift – ( This is due to go live on 15 December ) . Silver Star Promotions and Web 500 – our 2 website design sites also got facelifts, as did Slots Crazy ( still a work in progress ) Casino Rand, Online Casino, Rand Gambling and Jackpot Palace.

We launched the following blog sites – Blog Online Casinos, Blog Slots and Ipod Gaming

Sportsbetting sites – South African Online Sportsbet, Sport Bets Online and Sports Bet SA

Slots Sites: Slots All and Go Slots

We have also launched websites which cater specifically for Australian and British gamblers, an affiliate website – Topboss Affiliates and a work in progress site that lists casino bonus coupon codes.

We generally try and launch at least 3 new websites every 6 weeks, so feel free to read our previous blog posts to get an idea of all of the sites that came about in 2010.

Of course we wouldn’t be Topboss if we didn’t keep up with the latest trends, so we are also on Facebook and Twitter!

Sadly, We have stopped our superbike sponsorship, because we unfortunately don’t have the time to maintain the forum nor support the riders as much as we would like to, as we have to concentrate on our core business – namely online casinos and website design. Our riders Nico and Rankin did us proud and are both very talented riders and we wish both of them the best of luck in the future, and hope to still see them on the track making everyone else chew their dust!! We also thank their Team Manager Jacques – Without his guidance, training and support ( never mind his knack of being able to put a whole bike back together before the start of the next race!! ) they would never have achieved such brilliant rankings. Thank You Jacques, Nico and Rankin for giving us a truly enjoyable superbiking year!!

We also need to mention our “behind the scenes” content writers – Corinna, Carol, Sharon, Steve and the many online casinos who provided promotions and casino news for us. ( Too many to mention but you know who you are )

Last but not least is a BIG THANK YOU to the Topboss Team – Shaun, Frank, Yolandi, Jan, Andy and Heather – Without you guys Topboss would be nothing!!

Our offices will be closed from the 15 December and re opening on 10 January 2011, however we will still be available on email.

Wishing all of our clients and readers Happy Holidays !!

Latest News from Topboss Group

As always we have been very busy bees at Topboss. We have launched our first .co site – Go Slots which has some great slot reviews, including details about the new Lord of the Rings Slot – an exciting microgaming slot based on the popular movie with the same name.

We have also decided to venture into 2 markets that we have not ventured into before – The first is Topboss Affiliates which lists reputable casino affiliate programs. The reason we decided to start this website, is so that new affiliates in the industry do not get taken by the sharks in the industry. We have been in the affiliate industry for 10 years and during this time have come across numerous programs that simply rob affiliates by either not tracking their players, taking their players, not paying or simply closing down the affiliate program but keeping all the players delivered by the affiliate. A perfect example of this is Grand Prive. The purpose of Topboss Affiliates website is that it lists only the tried and tested and reputable programs, so new affiliates can be sure they aren’t going to get shafted if they sign up with the programs listed on the site.

We have also posted warnings on all of our websites about First Grand Affiliate program – namely African Palace Casino and Indio Casino. These guys have been up to so much bad stuff that they need a seperate post to explain all their wrong doings!!! Suffice to say – Do not touch them with a barge pole!!

The second market we are venturing into is the Sports Betting market. This is a whole new learning curve for all of us at Topboss, and we will be taking this venture slowly as we will be learning about the industry as we go along. The following 3 sites are all a work in progress, but I believe our designers are doing a pretty good job thus far! Sports Bet Online,   Sports Bet South Africa and South African Online Sports Bet.

Online Casino has had a revamp and is looking really good! Yes, We are a modest bunch at Topboss!!!

One of our older sites – Slots Crazy is in the process of being converted from Frontpage software to Dreamweaver. We will be very glad when these conversions are finally completed.

On a sad note – The casino industry is reeling from the loss of not 1 but 3 fellow webmasters who were all pioneers in our industry and will be sorely missed. Allen Leonard ( aka The Captain ) Lou Fabiano ( The Professor ) and Ted Lou ( Spearmaster ). These were great guys who gave so much to our industry and made the path smoother for all of us as they were all very vocal in what they believed in and were not shy to approach and put the spot light on affiliate programs that were not honest. RIP Allen, Lou and Ted.

 

 

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Latest Topboss News

It has been a while since we last updated our blog. We have had some personal tragedies that brought work to a standstill, but life must go on. On the Topboss news side – One of our designers Charlene has left Topboss to pursue other avenues. We wish her all of the best in her future endeavours.

We have launched some new websites which are still in the process of being completed, but you can have a look at them – Slots All is a slots dedicated website which features slots listed in themed categories. i.e Alien slot themes, Animal themes, mystical themes. You name it – Slots All has it. Still a lot of development to be done though.

2 British sites have been developed – British Online Casino and Casino Online Casino which both list online casinos that accept play in Pound currency.

Topboss.com and Topboss Gaming have been fully converted from frontpage to Dreamweaver software and had a revamp at the same time.

During the past few months there has been quite a bit happening in the South African Casino industry. The holding Company ( William Hill Group ) of 21Nova, Prestige Casino, Joyland Casino and EuroGrand removed the Rand currency option with no notification to players or their advertisers, so this left a bitter taste in the mouths of all concerned. Whilst William Hill is a reputable and well known company – it was a bit of a shock to discover they could do this in such a shoddy manner, and it is not what one would expect from a Group of their magnitude.

Slot Madness – The New RTG casino that launched in Rands and Dollars sold out to the Ace Revenue Group which resulted in Topboss removing all their banners as Ace Revenue does not have a good reputation and until they clean up their act – we are not prepared to be associated with them.

One thing that is guaranteed in the online casino industry is change…but that is what keeps it exciting!