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A Brief History of 'sex.com'

linuxwrangler writes "Violet Blue's current 'Open Source Sex' column in SFGate covers the amusingly sordid history of sex.com. More graft and corruption than hanky-panky, the article details some of the exploits surrounding the much-desired URL, including an attempted assassination, drug smuggling, money laundering, and a bid to buy out Ceasar's Palace. From the article: 'It's estimated that Cohen made over $100 million off the URL in the years he had it, even making a 1999 bid to buy Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and was only forced to give it back to Kremen when a San Jose court awarded the URL (and $65 million in damages) to Kremen in 2001. It had been a five-year struggle for Kremen, both in battling his speed addiction and in trying to raise funds for his own litigation. Even though his dot-com boom resume boasted typical startup-style impressive credentials, Kremen was only able to afford the court bills when bitter Sex.com porn industry rivals helped fund the case.'

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  1. slow day??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yawn....

  2. I got your breif history right here.... by AssCork · · Score: -1, Troll
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    The following replies are posted by unwashed nerds.
  3. Cohen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is he the same semi-retarded dude who wrote shittorrent?

    PS Plenty of big name porn sites raked in 100 million in the 90s.

  4. Brief history... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: -1, Troll

    There was a boy and a girl. A video camera and a website. The boy made money while screwing over the girl, and the girl filed a Cal-OSHA complaint. The End.

  5. DUPE!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i dont know when but i know i saw the history of sex.com as a story a long time ago! fucking dupe you tards!

  6. Merry Christmas Sex.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HO DARE ! ...bees welcomin yo damn self to
    da home o' St. Niggolas ... NIGGER CLAUS ! ... dont be eatin no yellow snow wiles ya here !
    Hello chilluns, set yoself down and lets me be tellin yaz da tale of
    how Old
    Saint Niggolas become Nigger Claus.
    Used ta be, way back when ... Crimmus only be fo whitey. Lil black
    chilluns be
    wakin up ta find nuttin but piles o' shit unda dey Crimmus tree while
    whitey
    cross town be gettin all da good stuff.
    Well in dis little town way up nort, dey be dis black chop shop owner
    by da
    name o' Niggolas. Now like any black man, Niggolas he liked his
    whiskey.
    One night, while he wuz staggerin home from da local saloon wif a
    steamin hot
    bucket o' fried chicken wif all da fixins undah his arm old Niggolas be
    detained by da pigs and befoe nights end died from internal injuries he
    sustained when they shoved a billy club up his hairy black ass fo what
    da
    Reverend Al Sharpton said wuz "no apparent reason."
    Instantly da towns black clergy called a special meetin' and wif da
    help of da
    Reverend Jesse Jackass dey canonized old Niggolas and henceforth
    "Saint"
    Niggolas came ta be.
    Now chilluns, yaz wud think dat da story wud end wit dat but no fuckin
    way. Be
    sittin yo ass down cuz deys mo. Ya seez, what I didn't mention was dat
    ol'
    Niggolas was stereotypically hung like a moose and consequently was
    also da
    pappy of most of da towns lil black chilluns.
    Crimmus aftah Crimmus it pissed him off dat he wud hafta wait til
    Crimmus NITE,
    afta whitey had gone ta bed ta go steal presents fo his own chillun.
    Dats why,
    in some black neighborhoods till dis very day Crimmus am STILL
    celebrated on da
    twenty SIXT o' Decembah.
    Well, aftah goin ta his reward Saint Niggolas saw a way to right this
    terrible
    wrong. So ever since then, Saint Nig as "Nigger Claus" can be found
    looting
    department stores and stealin presents outta whiteys trunk in shopping
    mall
    parking lots all over the world so dat on Crimmus eve he can load up
    his flashy
    red Eldorado convertible and be deliverin' em to all da po' black
    chilluns.
    On da way he stops at all the white folks houses(except fo da Jews ...
    even
    Nigger Claus has SOME standards)and steals all their presents, eats
    their
    cookies, raids their liquor cabinets and rapes their women. Den it's
    off to da
    ghetto to bring smiles ta da faces of all da lil black chilluns.
    So next Crimmus eve chilluns, be lookin up inta da sky round midnite.
    And if ya
    sees a nappy headed, jolly old fat man, stinkin of booze and dressed in
    red
    standin up behind da wheel of a red ghetto sled Cadillac pulled by a
    team of
    angry pit bulls dat ain't no Santa ... Dat am "NIGGER CLAUS" !!!

    Fuck Niggers! fuck Kwanzaa ! Long Live the KKK!!! Fuck.

    Cletis.