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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."
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.
All this suing countersuing and appealing just makes lawers richers and everyone else more pissed off! Network solutions should have been able to handle this on their own and stopped this whole mess.
There is no god
From day one Network Solutions has been horrible. Their customer service sucks. Because of their f-ck ups in the early days it is now nearly impossible to get information changed on an older domain. Compared to other companies, their prices are shit. And because of all this they ended up causing lawsuits. I'm just happy that now(or for the past few years) there is more than one choice for registering a domain name.
Don't worry, I've got .uk blocked as well!
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
Slashdot looked deep within my soul and assigned
me a number based on the order in which I joined
according to theregister.co.uk (sorry tired and stressed and cant be arsed to make that a link)
the site generates somewhere in the region of 500,000 dollars a month in advertising space alone
So worth quite a bit by the looks of it
S
Kingdom of Loathing (www.kingdomofloathing.com) Addicted is me
That there is no such thing as "bad" publicity, esp. in the adult industry...this is nothing more than a bunch of white noise to generate free advertisement for the guy.
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Wise up,
never bring a twinkie to a food fight.
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...
There is no sig, there is only Zuul.
Oh come on, Dildo, Newfoundland has them all beat!
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.
Don't forget Fucking, Austria.