Cooper’s hero in the leatherstockings tales was able to outdo the Iroquois Confederation. The Mohawks are part of that. Kahnawake is the Canadian reservation for the Mohawks. It lies just outside Quebec. Most of the sites I play have servers there.
What do Ultimate Bet, FullTilt and Bodog have in common? A tracert to one or the other resolves to the mohawk.ca servers. There are any number of other sites that use their IP service.
Early in my poker play, I played a lot on PokerRoom. It is also one of the mohawk.ca family. They had a muli-day outage at one point that they blamed on Kahnawake servers. Seems then they had all their pipes with a single backbone provider and that provider went tits-up of several days and they had no alternative pipe. That is a poor business practice.
While you and I get a free lunch on the internet after paying for the basic service, people maintaining commercial sites