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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sex.com Settles with Verisign Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:50:57 -0700 From: Tom Hymes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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