Supreme Court Rules on Sex.com
 

Sex.com is a domain that was originally registered by Gary Kremen who registered it through Network Solutions which is now called Verisign. Stephen Cohen used a letter forged with Kremen's name so he could become the domain's owner.
Thanks to this tactic, Cohen became the head of a multi-million dollar Internet porn empire while Kremens spent 6 years in court fighting to get the domain back. Cohen is to pay $65 million in damages for what he did.
However, since Cohen has escaped to Mexico, it may be impossible to recover the damages. Verisign may lose money for the erroneous transfer. Verisign states that domains are not property but the Supreme Court's ruling appears to contradict this.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

i wonder if the fake signed name thing would work on other urls................


hummmm................

That's a total crock of shit. They just don't want to be liable for damages due to their fuckup. When their defense is down to that, you know they're on thin ice.

SpaceAce

Yep. I'm itching to see them get fucked in the ass over this.

Could it be possible that sex.com could end up owning verisign due to this?

I'm handwriting one out to Network Solutions right now for Sleazydream.com. I'm even going to include one of your cards!

Hahahahaha tomorrow I will own the #4 site on Sextracker!!

:winkwink:

DH

kewl, maybe I will see him somewhere and rat him out!

:Graucho

(rubs hands together...)

or take a bribe to NOT rat him out. :)

I have a letter from some guy named lensman saying i am to be the newly appointed CEO of adult.com

never took it seriously though.

methinks verisign is worth more than $100M - but gary will be able to treat his wounds ok with that measely settlement anyway if he wins the case against verisign too -- don't worry.

is that all he's suing for? damn, ppc must be working out after all.

so who is currently running sex.com?

Gary Kremen owns it. he always did, just had it stolen from him for awhile.

ahhh okie, i was confused,
i am so out of it you people have no idea how bad of a headache bug spray can give u ahhhh my brain feels puffed out,
bedtime!

The stupid thing is that Verisign let it actually get to court.

The moment the query was raised they should have done something about it, from what I read they just denied it then ignored it.

You have to ask yourself why, what was in it for them?

And these idiots are still in charge of URL registrations?

only an idiot would still be paying $30 or $35 for a domain per year nowadays anyways....

hahahahahaha

35 per year???

people are STILL paying that?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

newbs:thumbsup

They do that to everything and everyone then wonder why they lose business and end up in shit like this.

I hope the fuckers get hit and hit hard. They've had it coming for a very long time.