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The Sex.Com Story Continues

Posted by Hemos on from the rolling-forward dept.

wherley writes "This story at news.com tells the tale of the lucrative sex.com domain, the incompetent Verisign transfer per forged request, and the $65 million dollars in damages hanging in the breeze."

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  1. dotster.com may be a concern as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Once you have payed for your domain name from dotster.com, they want you to buy the NameSafe service for an extra $10 per year, to "prevent any unauthorized changes from being made to your domain." Should I need to buy insurance, or should they guarantee their product?

  2. Re:As far as Verisign is concerned.... by BrookHarty · · Score: 3, Informative

    David Dolkas, an attorney at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, the firm representing VeriSign, said that if the judges were asking "is the DNS database somehow representative of an ownership right, the answer is no."

    "Why not?" Kozinski replied. "Why isn't that exactly what it is?"

    The first court was wrong, Kozinksi is appealing.

    On the the other hand... if the "No Physical Property" argument is true, let the MP3 trading begin!