Freelance Journalist Kieren McCarthy has signed a publishing deal for an upcoming book “Sex.com”.
Everyone in the domain name business knows the basics of the Sex.com domain. A domain name so valuable that it was stolen from the rightful owner who, when finally found guilty of the theft, fled the country to avoid paying a $65M judgement. Perhaps the Sex.com saga has come to an end as the domain was sold for about $12M last month.
I’m picturing a book written in the style of Mark Bowden’s Killing Pablo, which did an incredible job of framing a true story that was almost unbelievable.
In the words of McCarthy, “The best, most exciting, most important story surrounding the formation of the Internet we know today is the incredible tale of Sex.com.”
In addition to being a great story, I suspect this book will also shed more media attention on the domain name industry. Sadly, domain theft like that of Sex.com hasn’t gone away; it’s just become more sophisticated.
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