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Convicted felon Stephen Cohen allegedly wrested sex.com from its owner via a forged letter to Network Solutions.

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• Eminent Domain Name

  http://www.forbes.com/2000/02/07/feat.html
  "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]

• Former Sex.com Owner Claims Poverty, Slavery

  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20020130/103204_F.shtml
  News and discussion forum. [Techdirt]

• Manhunt Starts for Sex.com Snatcher

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/31/manhunt_starts_for_sex_com/
  "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]

• Net Closes on the Thief of Sex.com

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/11/nickpatonwalsh.theobserver
  "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]

• Sex Site Squatter Fined $65M

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1261930.stm
  "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]

• Sex.com Changes Hands

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/28/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]

• Sex.com Owner Wins $65M Damages

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/04/sex_com_owner_wins_65m/
  [Ad] "A Californian e-entrepreneur has won $65 million in damages over a stolen domain name." By Linda Harrison. [Register]

• Sex.com Returned to Original Owner

  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/05/0448236
  News and discussion forum. [Slashdot]

• Sex.com: A Chapter of Prurient Jurisprudence Closes

  http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/520901
  "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]

• The Sordid Tale of Sex.com

  http://money.cnn.com/2001/03/06/sbrunning/biz_sex/
  "Case puts most bizarre domain name back in the spotlight." By David Lawlor. [CNN Money]

• URLs Aren't Property?

  http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/27/2149230.shtml
  "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]

 

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