HowZim
08-08-2005, 09:11 PM
Hello Experts!
I have the following quesitons that I hope someone can provide some suggestions/answers/opinions. Thanks in advance!
Background:
- I own a small scale web hosting company in California
- My business has just started for 6 months
- A potential client offered good money to bring his local gambling business (Sports betting) on-line
- My Client's business model is let his Users to place the bet on 'line-of-client' (based on how well he knows his 'gamblers') over the internet.
- My Client will be posting the 'pay-out' rate of the sport games on-line.
- Win or Lose, my Client will pay/collect money offline (in person.)
- i.e. No REAL money transaction will be done via the web site, or the internet
- Client agrees that instead of each User starts with $xxx.00 amount, I can use xxx POINTS instead.
Questions:
1) If My Company register the web address (domain name) for my Client, will my company gets into trouble?
2) Since there is no money transaction done over the internet, can I legally host this web site in the U.S. ?
3) To play it safe, what if I sub-contract out to the hosting companies off-shore...
a) Will my company still gets into trouble? (Since I am still the point of contact for my client.)
b) Can anyone suggest WHERE and WHAT hosting companies (with PROVEN reliability) that are available off-shore where I can LEGALLY secure this business deal?
Any feedback that you guys can provide are greatly appreciated!
Looking forward to hear from you.
Sincerely,
I have the following quesitons that I hope someone can provide some suggestions/answers/opinions. Thanks in advance!
Background:
- I own a small scale web hosting company in California
- My business has just started for 6 months
- A potential client offered good money to bring his local gambling business (Sports betting) on-line
- My Client's business model is let his Users to place the bet on 'line-of-client' (based on how well he knows his 'gamblers') over the internet.
- My Client will be posting the 'pay-out' rate of the sport games on-line.
- Win or Lose, my Client will pay/collect money offline (in person.)
- i.e. No REAL money transaction will be done via the web site, or the internet
- Client agrees that instead of each User starts with $xxx.00 amount, I can use xxx POINTS instead.
Questions:
1) If My Company register the web address (domain name) for my Client, will my company gets into trouble?
2) Since there is no money transaction done over the internet, can I legally host this web site in the U.S. ?
3) To play it safe, what if I sub-contract out to the hosting companies off-shore...
a) Will my company still gets into trouble? (Since I am still the point of contact for my client.)
b) Can anyone suggest WHERE and WHAT hosting companies (with PROVEN reliability) that are available off-shore where I can LEGALLY secure this business deal?
Any feedback that you guys can provide are greatly appreciated!
Looking forward to hear from you.
Sincerely,