Full Tilt Poker Reclaims Domain Name, and Typos Too

Full Tilt Poker might have been involved in a high-level battle over its domain name with the FBI, but that was far from the only fight over URLs that Pocket Kings – the company which owns FTP – has been engaged in recently. According to a report at DomainNameWire.com, Full Tilt Poker has spent most of April regaining control of misspelled versions of its primary website, winning a dozen domain names in total.

Of course, the amount of traffic picked up by these typo domains is small when compared to the primary domain: FullTiltPoker.com. But given the massive number of people who attempt to reach FTP each day, misspelled domains can also receive significant traffic – certainly enough to make them worthwhile targets for poachers who would like to capitalize on the misdirected hits.

Just this week, Pocket Kings gained control of three fairly typical misspellings: fulltiltepoker.com, fulltiltpokar.net, and fultiltpocker.net. Other domains won back for FTP in recent weeks include fltiltpoker.com, fulltilts.net, loginfulltiltpoker.com, and fuiltiltpoker.com.

The latest domain names have not yet redirected to Full Tilt Poker’s site, though that will likely be the ultimate result of the move.

The battle over FullTiltPoker.com was a much bigger priority for the site; the domain was temporarily seized by the US government as a part of their crackdown against three major online poker sites. The Department of Justice ultimately reached agreements with Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars under which their primary domain names could be used, but only in jurisdictions where online poker was legal, or to refund money to USA poker players.

The combination of the seizure of the primary Full Tilt Poker domain and the acquisition of several misspelled domain names by Poker Kings created an unusual situation for several days. As DomainNameWire.com pointed out, there was likely a time in which players could reach Full Tilt Poker’s website – but only by intentionally making typos to reach one of the misspelled domains.