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The Neverending Sex.com Story
fwc writes "This has to be the story which will never end. Back in 1996, Steven Cohen "stole" sex.com from its original owner (Gary Kremen) by forging a letter to Network Solutions asking for the domain to be transferred to him. Subsequently Kremen sued to get the domain name returned. Through what seemed to be a neverending parade of lawsuits and judgements (Documented on slashdot here, here, here and here, and also in several other places), Kremen finally got his domain back and Cohen was ordered to pay $65 million in damages. In the latest twist, Cohen is asking the US Supreme Court to overturn the verdict of the lower courts by claiming that he owned the sex.com trademark prior to Kremen registering the domain. This should prove interesting since it looks like the filing at the USPTO occured two years after the domain was originally registered."
Who would want that domain?
You won't be able to send spam (I don't accept any email that contains the word sex, espescially in the address)
You'll be blocked by every single netnanny on the planet.
Your only visitors will be minors, who don't know how to search for porn, besides typing "sex" into the address bar.
Doesn't sound like the best audience to me.
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I could try to make some joke about there having to be some prior art concerning sex, but I think this subject has been "beaten" to death... as it were.
No wonder they're fighting hard to keep the name.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
...the first thing to do is to create http://goatse.sex.com ! Then, he'll be RICH!!
End this petty dispute. I want to start using it.
In the meantime, cocks.com is a good substitute.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
"lets fight over a domain that only red necks and kids at school will visit".
I've left to find myself. If you happen to see me, please, keep me there until I return.
Who I share a name with, why, oh why, did it have to be this jerk?
"This is not a company that appears to be bothered by ethical boundaries."
Attorney General Mike Hatch on Microsoft
I will say that Network Solutions surpised me once in that I rang up as needed some DNS servers changed (old domain so web interface didn't work). I though that it would take ages to get sorted. Loads of faxing etc. However rang up, got through to CS, said what I wanted to do and had it done 10 minutes. However I guess that I just got lucky that day
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Cheap UK and US VPS
My favourite wierd place name is Wetwangin yorkshire, UK.
Then you have to pay a royalty everytime you do sex?
That doesn't make any sense. You might want to click here
I've never looked at a trademark patent before, but what does it mean near the bottom, First use date, and First commerce use? Was this guy telling them in 1996 when he filed, that he had first used 'sex.com' in 1979? What?? Or am I missing something?
Shouldn't "sex" be an .org? Or, perhaps multiple .orgs
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
Man, because of the title of this article, "The Neverending Sex.com Story," I was expecting some kind of eternaly-updating fictional erotica on Sex.com.
Instead, I just get some boring old dissertation on who owns the domain.
Oh well, back to work I go.
"Sometimes you have fun, and sometimes the fun has you"