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The Neverending Sex.com Story

Posted by michael on from the wheels-of-justice dept.

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."

18 of 240 comments (clear)

  1. Why want? by Malicious · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Why want? by yatest5 · · Score: 4, Funny
      Your only visitors will be minors

      Well, they've got nothing much else to do these days what with the sweeping redundancies and the move to cheaper, foreign imports - leave them alone!

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    2. Re:Why want? by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 3, Funny

      i'd know what to do with it: the ultimate sex search engine...i'll leave it as an exercise to the trolls to come up with a name...

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    3. Re:Why want? by Zach+Garner · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't worry, I've got .uk blocked as well!

    4. Re:Why want? by pldms · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't worry, I've got .uk blocked as well!

      Clever. Additionally removing Scunthorpe, Peeover and hundreds of other dubious place names from your mailbox :-)

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    5. Re:Why want? by cHiphead · · Score: 3, Funny

      I would block .fr, but I don't watch Fox News. sorry.

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    6. Re:Why want? by jdreed1024 · · Score: 5, Funny
      (I don't accept any email that contains the word sex, espescially in the address)

      And slashdotters wonder why they're single. I, on the other hand, allow the word "sex" in e-mails, and because of this, have gotten numerous e-mails from eastern european girls who want to marry me or from lonely housewives who want to chat when their husbands are away. Now, which one to choose...

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    7. Re:Why want? by Spunk · · Score: 4, Funny

      spoogle.

    8. Re:Why want? by meringuoid · · Score: 3, Funny

      In the UK, there are the counties of Essex, Middlesex and Sussex. There is also the region of Wessex.

      Not to mention the town of Scunthorpe, which has triggered many a naive filter...

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    9. Re:Why want? by sirinek · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh come on, Dildo, Newfoundland has them all beat!

    10. Re:Why want? by rembem · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't forget Fucking, Austria.

  2. Prior art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Of all the people in the world by _underSCORE · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who I share a name with, why, oh why, did it have to be this jerk?

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  4. Wetwang by Martin+Spamer · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favourite wierd place name is Wetwangin yorkshire, UK.

  5. So "sex" is trademarket? by peter303 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then you have to pay a royalty everytime you do sex?

    1. Re:So "sex" is trademarket? by Drakkar · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm doing this already, so no big difference

  6. WRONG! by peterpi · · Score: 3, Funny
    "This has to be the story which will never end. Back in 1996, Steven Cohen "stole" sex.com from it is original owner (Gary Kremen) by forging a letter to Network Solutions asking for the domain to be transferred to him."

    That doesn't make any sense. You might want to click here

    1. Re:WRONG! by arkanes · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know whats REALLY funnny? When you put that into google so you could have a scathing link, you misspelled apostrophe. Note the spell=1 on the url.