Help On Determining existence of Business - www.WorldPokerParty.com

[CopagCardsCom]

Hi,

Any help on this matter would be appreciated.

I am trying to determine if the following company has gone out of business? The company was/is the ECM Group.

They used to have the following websites:

www.getontheisland.com
www.pokerisland.com
www.wpptour.com
www.worldpokerparty.com

This group is out of Ft worth Texas. All the websites are down and the phone numbers no longer work.

Any inside knowledge would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff

[nsdjoe]

Don't know for sure, but I imagine Party/iGM would try to sue the pants off any other company using the words 'party' and 'poker' in their name.

[Phill S]

sue them how exactly?

welcome to the world of ofshore business - even if it says texas, its actually somewhere in the carribean.

[nsdjoe]

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sue them how exactly?

welcome to the world of ofshore business - even if it says texas, its actually somewhere in the carribean.

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well there are ways to sue internationally, but youre right. it does get sticky.

[Orpheus]

Sorry, no inside info, but perhaps the following might help you further your search.

I'm getting nothing, netwise, on "getontheisland.com" and "wpptour.com". I'd guess that they have been DNS-purged, and the change has already propagated to my DNS server. Of course it could be something else. You might want to check Google's cache and save any information from the most recent scan of those sites (Try the text-only cache. If the sites had a lot of graphics, the straight cache might not display properly or at all)

WPPTours (who the World Poker Tour [WPT} would probably be happy to sue) had the support phone number 877-536-3496, which was previously used by LeaseACasino.com (defunct for about a year), which was run by the ECM Group (as is worldpokerparty.com, see below) I think this is the company that you should be investigating (though there are quite a few legitimate companies by that name around the US/world)

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www.worldpokerparty resolves to 212.100.224.116 (server down), which is also www.ECMgroupServers.COM


Domain Name: ECMGROUPSERVERS.COM
Registrar: PRIMUS TELCO PTY LTD DBA PRIMUSDOMAIN/PLANETDOMAIN
Whois Server: whois.planetdomain.com
Referral URL: http://www.planetdomain.com
Name Server: NS2.RACKSPACE.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK [note: "Registrar Lock" just means that the owner has protected their site from domain hijacking]
Updated Date: 01-dec-2004
Creation Date: 30-oct-2003
Expiration Date: 30-oct-2009

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Poker island.com resolves to 216.104.191.80 (website operational but all content deleted -- displays root directory)

Domain Name: POKERISLAND.COM
Registrar: DOMAINDISCOVER
Whois Server: whois.domaindiscover.com
Referral URL: http://www.domaindiscover.com
Name Server: NS1.TIERRA.NET
Name Server: NS2.TIERRA.NET
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 24-feb-2005
Creation Date: 14-dec-2000
Expiration Date: 14-dec-2006

NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in these records is the date the
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration
date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring
registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to
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