Sex.com Settles with VeriSign [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Sex.com Settles with Verisign
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:50:57 -0700
From: Tom Hymes <tom () avnonline com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

Declan,

Thought your readers might like to know that Gary Kremen of Sex.com has
finally settled his case with Verisign over the theft of his Website by
Stephen Cohen back in 1995. As reported below, Verisign was deemed at fault
by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and a rather important precedent
established regarding registrar responsibility concerning customer domain
names. The first few graphs of our story are below, with a link to the full
version.

Thanks,

Tom Hymes
Editor in Chief
AVN Online Magazine


SAN FRANCISCO - A six-year battle between Sex.com owner Gary Kremen and
VeriSign (Network Solutions) over the theft of his domain by Stephen Cohen
has ended. The two sides have settled their litigation, after the U.S. Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals held VeriSign responsible to tort for the Sex.com
theft, which Cohen effected using a forged letter to the registrar.

The appellate court had ruled that VeriSign, known at the time as Network
Solutions, was responsible to what is known as the "tort of conversion" when
it failed to return Sex.com, despite Kremen's complaints and proof that
Stephen Cohen had stolen the domain by way of a forged letter to the
registrar in 1995.

The two sides settled the dispute April 19...


http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=81224

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