That's fine. Just do a price match via your credit card. Most of them offer this service for free.

It's Nicole Bilderback.

All someone has to do to get around this is get the IP address for the website and add it to their hosts file.

All the provider (casino) needs to do to get around this and prevent it in the future is to register domains in other countries. I'm sure that's what they will do and then email all their customers. They can also build this into their clients if they don't use a web interface.

Not that hard....

Actually, there are several issues with that.

1) The CPEs (DSL/Cable Modems) that most service providers don't support IPv6. No major ISP will force the firmware upgrade of millions of CPE just to enable IPv6. Even then who knows what all the folks home network uses (wireless, OS versions, etc). Imagine the calls to the helpdesk.

2) Most of the DSLAMs in the DSL market aren't IP aware. Those cost more than the ones doing simple ATM VP/VC mapping or ATM>Ethernet (dot1q / QinQ) conversion. That offering will need to roll up to the BRAS which probably won't be able to support that many NAT translations as the big boys terminate 100k+ sessions. I can't speak for CMTS stuff.

3) The big boys customer is no longer the subscriber but it's actually wall street. That's who they care about making happy. So imagine the opportunity they have once they figure out a way to NAT all their non premium subscribers. That's another $5 a month for anyone that needs a public *dynamic* ip address. Then another $10 on top of that for a public static IP.