Appeals court upholds Sex.com ruling

Friday, April 1st, 2005

As a reminder that domain name hijacking was alive and well even before ICANN’s recent policy changes, a federal appeals court last week rejected Steven Cohen’s appeal last week that he pay businessman Gary Kremen $65M for stealing the domain name sex.com in 1995. Cohen skipped the company shortly after the original ruling in 2001 and hasn’t paid Kremen one cent. However, Kremen did snag a mansion owned by Cohen and received a settlement from Network Solutions. Kremen reportedly now makes $8M a year from the sex.com domain name.

Further Reading:

  1. Court Ruling on Baidu v. Register.com Has Implications for Domain Registrars
  2. Sex.com Battle Becomes Deadly
  3. ICA Issues Statement on Kentucky Court Ruling

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