The leading online gambling sites, Absolute Poker, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, were affected by the indictment issued on Friday in New York’s Southern District.

According to the Department of Justice, they will be allowed to reclaim their domain names in order to refund money to players, whose accounts were not frozen.

U. S. Attorney, Preet Bharara stated that the agreements allow for Absolute Poker, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker to use their domain names to facilitate the withdrawal of U. S players’ funds held in the companies’ account and that the deposit of funds by U. S players is highly prohibited.

However, the players based in the U. S, are not in legal danger since there is no federal law that prohibits playing poker online.

The three online gambling sites according to Bharara, bypassed a 2006 federal law barring banks from processing payments to offshore gambling websites. The sites are based outside the U. S and do business with U. S customers.

People have been reported to have lost access to their accounts when U. S. authorities seized five Internet domain names and froze about 76 bank accounts in 14 countries that has been said to belong to the online poker companies.

Though information about the other sites was not revealed, it was reported that the PokerStars can now start the process of returning money to former U. S. customers.