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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.'
Yawn....
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The only thing missing from the Sex.com story is a dead stripper found with a rubber alligator lodged in her throat
Well, that seems easy enough to fix...
Now, where to find a rubber alligator...
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Ah, score another for the good old social engineering that made it posible to obtain the domain without having the rigts to it.
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Is he the same semi-retarded dude who wrote shittorrent?
PS Plenty of big name porn sites raked in 100 million in the 90s.
That sounds like an interesting story. Too bad the article is so poorly written that it hardly explains what happened.
Oh... there's another one.
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Wow. She's a machine artist. I kid you not!
I find this all very interesting. However, I'm wondering if there's a similar tale behind the owners of whitehouse.gov - the other hot pr0n site on the internet.
The Kai's Semi-Updated Website Thingy
In the end, he too ended up in a Tijuana prison. However when he was set to be released he insisted on staying because he just loved filthy mexican cock too much. You see, in the streets of Tijuana it cost at least 5 pesos but in prison it was free.
I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
Did Cohen really share a cell with Michael Milken or did he stay at the same prison but at different times? I'd be more interested in reading about that if he did actually share the same cell.
Also, this author's credentials sound like something that could only qualify someone for work in San Francisco:
Violet Blue is author and editor of over a dozen sexual health books and erotica collections. She is a professional sex educator, lecturer, podcaster, video blogger, porn/erotica reviewer and machine artist. Violet is also a fetish model, a member of Survival Research Labs, an author at Metroblogging San Francisco; girl friday contributor at Fleshbot, a San Francisco native, and a pro blogger. For more information and links to Web sites discussed in Open Source Sex, go to Violet Blue's Web site, tinynibbles.com.
Please tell me I live in a sane world when I say even Dvorak or Cringley has better credentials.
Crow T. Trollbot
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.
you type it right... oh see what you get for only being one letter out...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Ahoy, Captain Spooge! Arrrrr...
Am I the only one that finds these google ads at the bottom of that article to be apropos:
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Joshua J. Kugler
Don't you see? Sex.com is our birthright! It's a national treasure. It is a god among TLDs. That's why I think we should make it public domain and put a wiki up there so we can all teach and share what we've learned about sex. Like the future, sex.com belongs to the children. The next time somebody mentions sex.com, think of the children!
Uhh... wait a sec...
Electric Monkey Pants
Anyone working with Survival Research Labs is OK in my book.
While I'm not a huge fan of her style, I must say that she writes a sex column; her crededentials are appropriate and well-suited for the job. On the other hand, the thought of associating Dvorak or Cringley with sex makes me run in terror.
Can any adult webmasters weigh in on the amounts of money to be made in your business? How much would you say your "average" pr0n site pulls in? What amount of traffic is required for that?
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... if you could type it with one hand.
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry
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!
her credentials are a pile of *hite. Thats the point.
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da home o' St. Niggolas
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
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
Fuck Niggers! fuck Kwanzaa ! Long Live the KKK!!! Fuck.
Cletis.
Assassinations? Oh my. Mother told me having sex was nothing but trouble, but did I listen?
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
I think Cringely is the one who should feel sullied by that association. At the very least he has 'Triumph of the Nerds' and 'NerdTV' to his credit...what does John Dvorak or "Violet Blue" have to their credit?
Cringely is not always right, and maybe even wrong a lot, but he's usually worth listening to.
Sony ha
During that area, you could make 100M$ from nothing even WITHOUT any sexy domainname.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
This isn't even news anymore. The whole sordid saga of sex.com was reported on wired.com at least 5 years ago! Why is this making the rounds now?
eTrade SUCKS
That probably refers to her membership in Survival Research Labs, integrating animal corpses with gears and stuff.
-mkb
Please tell me I live in a sane world when I say even Dvorak or Cringley has better credentials.
Better credentials for WHAT?
Yes, I suppose if I were looking for someone to write a column about technology, one of those gentlemen would be the better choice. But if I were looking for someone to write a column about sex, you better believe John C. Dvorak would be at the very bottom of my list!