Manhunt Starts for Sex.com Snatcher - "The owner of Sex.com is offering a $50,000 (£35,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who stole the saucy domain from him." By Tim Richardson. [Register] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/31/manhunt_starts_for_sex_com/
Sex.com Changes Hands - "An internet businessman has been stripped of ownership of porn portal sex.com following a ruling by a Californian court." By John Leyden. [Register] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/28/sex_com_changes_hands/
Sex.com Owner Wins $65M Damages - [Ad] "A Californian e-entrepreneur has won $65 million in damages over a stolen domain name." By Linda Harrison. [Register] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/04/sex_com_owner_wins_65m/
Yahoo Battles sex.com over Link - "Yahoo Inc., which is trying to distance itself from adult-oriented merchandise and advertising, has landed in another sex skirmish." [Wall Street Journal] - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-530578.html
Sex.com: A Chapter of Prurient Jurisprudence Closes - "San Jose U.S. District Court Judge James Ware ruled in favor of Kremen this week, finding that one Stephen Michael Cohen was guilty of fraudulently hi-jacking the sultry site and ultimately turning it into a multi-million dollar gig." [Internet - http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/520901
Holding on Property Status of Domain Names is Bad News for NSI - "The 9th held last Friday that a domain name registrant may sue a registrar, NSI, for conversion of the registrant’s domain name." [iBusiness Law] - http://ibusinesslaw.info/index.php?p=23&more=1#more23
Sex Site Squatter Fined $65M - "A man who paid $1,000 for the sex.com domain name wins $65m after an online pornographer is found guilty of hijacking the site." [BBC] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1261930.stm
Judge Orders 'Master' for Sex.com - "A federal judge is appointing a special adviser to wade into the long-standing dispute over the domain name sex.com. The move could help settle several unresolved questions." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41480,00.html
Court to Get Control of Sex.net - "When the former operator of sex.com lost ownership of the lucrative site, it was just the beginning. He now stands to lose custody of -- and the income from -- dozens of other porn domains under terms of a new court order." By Joanna Glasner. [ - http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41663,00.html
Net Closes on the Thief of Sex.com - "Everybody wants a piece of the action. Sex.com, the most sought-after address on the world wide web, is at the centre of a remarkable legal dispute involving a fugitive porn baron, betrayed business partners and billions of pounds in potential profi - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4150022,00.html
A Case of Sex Appealed - " Stephen Michael Cohen, the man who operated the porn site for the past five years, is now asking a judge to suspend a transfer of the domain back to Gary Kremen, the San Francisco entrepreneur who first registered the site more than six years ag - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40544,00.html
Sex.com Dispute in Final Stage? - "The fight for control of the domain name sex.com is entering a new -- and perhaps final -- round." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40881,00.html
Sex.com Spends Day on Trial - "Nearly everything was in place Thursday for opening day in a trial to determine damages in the legal battle over the domain name sex.com." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42328,00.html
A Kinder, Gentler Sex.com - "This week, Kremen launched a new version of the Sex.com site that's a sharp contrast to its former incarnation." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42837,00.html
Cost of Sex.com Theft: $65 Mil - "A federal judge brought the high stakes dispute over the website sex.com to a dramatic close by ordering the former operator of the domain name to pay $65 million in damages for fraudulently taking control of the site." By Joanna Glasner. [Wire - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42835,00.html
Sex.com Loser Claims Poverty - "The man who took credit for turning the domain name Sex.com into a multimillion-dollar porn empire now says he is too poor to afford toilet paper." By Josanna Glasner. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50104,00.html
Sex.com Sells (When It's Not Stolen) - News of the judgment against Stephen Cohen, with discussion forum. [Plastic] - http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/05/1535214&mode=thread
Sex.com Returned to Original Owner - News and discussion forum. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/05/0448236&mode=nested
This Sex Drama's Getting Hot - "The ownership of perhaps the most valuable domain name on the Internet, sex.com, could be decided within two weeks." by Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38019,00.html
Eminent Domain Name - "In a federal court in San Diego on Feb. 3, attorneys for Kremen and Cohen faced off again in one of the Internet's longest and most lurid lawsuits." By Jon Swartz. [Forbes] - http://www.forbes.com/2000/02/07/feat.html
Judge Orders Sex.com Returned - "Federal Judge James Ware has ordered the domain name sex.com be returned to the man who registered it six years ago, and required Cohen and the Ocean Fund to deposit $25 million with the court." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40380,00.html
URLs Aren't Property? - "A judge ruled in a lawsuit about the alleged illegal transfer of the domain name 'sex.com' that URLs do not qualify as property, at least under current law." News and archived discussion. [Slashdot] - http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/27/2149230.shtml
Sex.com Saga Still Sizzling - "If a domain isn't actual property according to law, and it's stolen -- as the original sex.com owner claims it was -- then how can he get it back, along with the millions he's lost?" By Craig Bicknell. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36247,00.html
Sex.com Ruling: It Wasn't Stolen - "Domains aren't property, a judge rules in the long, sordid case of sex.com. Therefore, the guy who managed to grab it from its first owner doesn't have to give it back." By Craig Bicknell. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38398,00.html
The Sordid Saga of Sex.com - "Stephen Cohen built a US$100-million porn empire on Sex.com. There's just one problem. The two-time convicted felon stole the name, foes say." By Craig Bicknell. [Wired] - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,19140,00.html