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Top: Computers: Internet: Domain_Names: Disputed_Domain_Names: sex.com:
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» Sex Site Squatter Fined $65M - "A man who paid $1,000 for the sex.com domain name wins $65m after an online pornographer is found guilty of hijacking the site." [BBC]
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» Sex.com Loser Claims Poverty - "The man who took credit for turning the domain name Sex.com into a multimillion-dollar porn empire now says he is too poor to afford toilet paper." By Josanna Glasner. [Wired] (January 30, 2002)
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» Yahoo Battles sex.com over Link - "Yahoo Inc., which is trying to distance itself from adult-oriented merchandise and advertising, has landed in another sex skirmish." [Wall Street Journal] (August 23, 2001)
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» Manhunt Starts for Sex.com Snatcher - "The owner of Sex.com is offering a $50,000 (£35,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who stole the saucy domain from him." By Tim Richardson. [Register] (May 31, 2001)
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» Sex.com Spends Day on Trial - "Nearly everything was in place Thursday for opening day in a trial to determine damages in the legal battle over the domain name sex.com." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] (April 9, 2001)
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» A Kinder, Gentler Sex.com - "This week, Kremen launched a new version of the Sex.com site that's a sharp contrast to its former incarnation." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] (April 5, 2001)
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» Cost of Sex.com Theft: $65 Mil - "A federal judge brought the high stakes dispute over the website sex.com to a dramatic close by ordering the former operator of the domain name to pay $65 million in damages for fraudulently taking control of the site." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] (April 4, 2001)
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» Sex.com Owner Wins $65M Damages - [Ad] "A Californian e-entrepreneur has won $65 million in damages over a stolen domain name." By Linda Harrison. [Register] (April 4, 2001)
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» Net Closes on the Thief of Sex.com - "Everybody wants a piece of the action. Sex.com, the most sought-after address on the world wide web, is at the centre of a remarkable legal dispute involving a fugitive porn baron, betrayed business partners and billions of pounds in potential profits." By Nick Paton Walsh. [Observer] (March 11, 2001)
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» The Sordid Tale of Sex.com - "Case puts most bizarre domain name back in the spotlight." By David Lawlor. [CNN Money] (March 6, 2001)
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» Court to Get Control of Sex.net - "When the former operator of sex.com lost ownership of the lucrative site, it was just the beginning. He now stands to lose custody of -- and the income from -- dozens of other porn domains under terms of a new court order." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] (February 7, 2001)
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» Judge Orders 'Master' for Sex.com - "A federal judge is appointing a special adviser to wade into the long-standing dispute over the domain name sex.com. The move could help settle several unresolved questions." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] (January 30, 2001)
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» Sex.com Dispute in Final Stage? - "The fight for control of the domain name sex.com is entering a new -- and perhaps final -- round." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] (December 29, 2000)
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» A Case of Sex Appealed - " Stephen Michael Cohen, the man who operated the porn site for the past five years, is now asking a judge to suspend a transfer of the domain back to Gary Kremen, the San Francisco entrepreneur who first registered the site more than six years ago." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] (December 6, 2000)
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» Judge Orders Sex.com Returned - "Federal Judge James Ware has ordered the domain name sex.com be returned to the man who registered it six years ago, and required Cohen and the Ocean Fund to deposit $25 million with the court." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] (November 28, 2000)
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» Sex.com: A Chapter of Prurient Jurisprudence Closes - "San Jose U.S. District Court Judge James Ware ruled in favor of Kremen this week, finding that one Stephen Michael Cohen was guilty of fraudulently hi-jacking the sultry site and ultimately turning it into a multi-million dollar gig." [InternetNews] (November 28, 2000)
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» Sex.com Changes Hands - "An internet businessman has been stripped of ownership of porn portal sex.com following a ruling by a Californian court." By John Leyden. [Register] (November 28, 2000)
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» URLs Aren't Property? - "A judge ruled in a lawsuit about the alleged illegal transfer of the domain name 'sex.com' that URLs do not qualify as property, at least under current law." News and archived discussion. [Slashdot] (August 27, 2000)
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» Sex.com Ruling: It Wasn't Stolen - "Domains aren't property, a judge rules in the long, sordid case of sex.com. Therefore, the guy who managed to grab it from its first owner doesn't have to give it back." By Craig Bicknell. [Wired] (August 25, 2000)
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» Sex.com Saga Still Sizzling - "If a domain isn't actual property according to law, and it's stolen -- as the original sex.com owner claims it was -- then how can he get it back, along with the millions he's lost?" By Craig Bicknell. [Wired] (May 11, 2000)
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» Eminent Domain Name - "In a federal court in San Diego on Feb. 3, attorneys for Kremen and Cohen faced off again in one of the Internet's longest and most lurid lawsuits." By Jon Swartz. [Forbes] (February 7, 2000)
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» The Sordid Saga of Sex.com - "Stephen Cohen built a US$100-million porn empire on Sex.com. There's just one problem. The two-time convicted felon stole the name, foes say." By Craig Bicknell. [Wired] (April 15, 1999)
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