The History of Sex.com, the Most Contested Domain On the Internet

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:48AM from the what's-in-a-name dept.

sarahnaomi writes On its face, sex.com looks like a no-frills Pinterest for porn, but behind the site lies an ongoing grudge match between the man who invented online dating and a con artist who stole the crown jewel of the internet out from under him. The history of the domain is well documented, with two books and dozens of articles written on the subject. It was first registered in 1994 by Gary Kremen, the entrepreneur who founded Match.com and was savvy enough to buy up several generic domains, including jobs.com and housing.com, in the early days of the internet.

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TLDR by NotInHere · 2015-02-23 02:05 · Score: 5, Funny

dude A registered sex.com
dude B fucked girl @ registry company of dude A and used further tricks to get sex.com
dude B made millions with the domain name
dudes C and D founded google, resulting in loss of "random visitors"
dude A got sex.com back from B through court descision, demanded $64 million
dude B didn't pay, fled to mexico, was turned over, spent time in prison, still didnt pay until today
"The history of the domain is well documented" by richy+freeway · 2015-02-23 02:10 · Score: 5, Insightful

So why are we going over it again?