Sex.com Settles Case Against VeriSign 165
netcentr writes "A press release on CircleID has announced that the owner of the Sex.com domain name today has got 'a final settlement with VeriSign (formerly Network Solutions, Inc.), concluding a six-year legal fight that set several important precedents for the future of the Internet. After the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted Sex.Com a sweeping victory that held VeriSign/Network Solutions, Inc. (collectively "VeriSign") strictly responsible for mishandling the famous domain name, Sex.Com and VeriSign have settled Sex.Com's lawsuit against VeriSign.' Gary Kremen was awarded a $65 million judgment against Cohen for stealing the domain name, which the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn on June 12, 2003."
Blank Page? (Score:1, Informative)
no more RTFA
2nd post? (Score:5, Informative)
The base VeriSign site:
http://www.recallverisign.com
Check out this page by GoDaddy.com about VeriSign: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/PressReleases/inte
PDF Mirror just in case (Score:3, Informative)
How much did they settle for? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How much did they settle for? (Score:5, Informative)
Court of Appeal Decision (Score:5, Informative)
You can find the decision by the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit at:
Kremen, et al. v. Online Classifieds Inc., et al. [uscourts.gov] (pdf warning)
To get the html version, paste this url:
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf
into the Adobe PDF Conversion Page [adobe.com].
Re:Why so much (Score:5, Informative)
$25 million of the award was punitive damages, so presumably, the other $40 million was compensatory (lost profits) and legal fees (probably mostly legal fees).
Interestingly, those damages were awarded by a judge, not a jury. Here's a link [law.com]. I would've expected a smaller judgement from the bench.
Re:One in a million (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Astounding (Score:5, Informative)
Stupid from a common sense point of view, smart from a business point of view. I can think of a lot of domain name fuckups that, could the owner have sued, would have sunk the registrars. As it is, they've avoided huge lawsuits for the last 8 years.
It took a domain name with the potential money behind it of sex.com to push it all the way through the courts to the current situation.
Re:Good (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Aren't there enough? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Court of Appeal Decision (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How much did they settle for? (Score:4, Informative)
I worked with Steve Cohen weeks after he stole sex (Score:5, Informative)
He also asked all the secretaries to pose naked, used the company phones to call Nevada brothels for business advice and other shady activities.
I was later deposed as a witness for a sexual harassment case against the company because of his behavior (he was not an employee but rather an acquaintence of the owner) and the behavior of other sales people. The company's attorneys were in the process of searching for him at that time, which was around 2000 or 2001.
I can't wait for him to finally get caught. He reminds me of Robert Vesco; he's probably funding Al Queda or Russian prostitution rings or something now.
Re:maybe I'm missing something... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Expires 2012 - Still Stuck With Verisign? (Score:2, Informative)
If you had bothered to paste the first part of the whois you would display the fact that Kremen can not change the domain himself anymore:
Domain Name: SEX.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS2.PERSIANKITTY.COM
Name Server: NS1.SEX.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 03-dec-2003
Creation Date: 18-oct-1995
Expiration Date: 17-oct-2012
I guess it's just going to sit like that until NSI decides that it's time for the real owner to have control back.
Re:The thief made much more money (Score:2, Informative)
Once they did steal one of my domains and then sold it back to me for $1,200 under another company name that was owned by Verisign.
Verisign does what they want to do and have been doing it for way too long and getting away with murder.