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US supreme court ends sex.com battle
In the final chapter of a six-year legal battle over the sex.com
domain name, The U.S. Supreme Court last week rejected the appeal
of Stephen Michael Cohen, the man found to have illegally hijacked
the domain name.
The domain was originally registered by Gary Kreman in 1994. After
a period of one year while sex.com sat dormant, Cohen forged a letter
to Network Solutions, now a subsidiary of Verisign, requesting a
transfer of ownership.
For a reported fee of $1,000, Network Solutions processed the domain
name transfer and sex.com officially became Cohen's property. Cohen
then launched what was to become a multi-million dollar Internet
pornography business based on the sex.com domain name.
In September 2002, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
approved a $65 million award in Kremen v. Cohen, that opened the
doors for Kremen to regain control of sex.com and collect a substantial
judgment from Cohen, including $25 million in punitive damages.
This Supreme Court is the highest court in the US, so Cohen has
no further avenues for appeal. However Kremen faces an uphill struggle
to recover his costs because Mr. Cohen is still a fugitive from
justice in Mexico.
Energy firm denies link to powergenitalia site
Energy giant Powergen says it has no connection to the unfortunately
named Italian website www.powergenitalia.com.
Rumours have been sweeping the Internet that the website for Powergen
Italia is part of the empire of the British firm.
But Powergen Italia is actually an Italian battery firm, which
was unaware running its name together in its URL would prove amusing
to English speakers.
A spokesman for Powergen said: "This site has nothing to do
with us at all. We don't even have an Italian division."
Source: www.ananova.com
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