" 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 ago." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired]

"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]

"Judge rules the lucrative domain name was misappropriated." By Shannon Lafferty. [The Recorder]

"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. [Wired]

"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. [Wired]

"There is still abundant evidence that there are inadequate procedures in place to ward off domain name theft." By Rod Dixon. [CircleID]

"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]

News and discussion forum. [Techdirt]

"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]

"A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, alleges that Mr. Cohen fraudulently obtained rights to use the name sex.com, and subsequently has been reaping millions of dollars in profits ever since." By Tom Davey. [RedHerring.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]

"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]

"A federal judge barred the current owner of the Web address 'Sex.com' from using the Internet domain name after finding he fraudulently obtained rights to it." [USA Today/Bloomberg]

"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]

"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 profits." By Nick Paton Walsh. [Observer]

"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]

"An internet businessman has been stripped of ownership of porn portal sex.com following a ruling by a Californian court." By John Leyden. [Register]

"The fight for control of the domain name sex.com is entering a new -- and perhaps final -- round." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired]

"One of the most lucrative domain names on the Internet will take center stage in San Jose, Calif., this week as a bizarre battle over Sex.com returns to court." By Paul Festa. [ZDNet]

"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]

"The owner of Sex.com is offering a $50,000 reward for the capture of a man who co-opted the site for five years." By Lisa M. Bowman. [ZDNet]

[Ad] "A Californian e-entrepreneur has won $65 million in damages over a stolen domain name." By Linda Harrison. [Register]

News and discussion forum. [Slashdot]

"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]

"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]

News of the judgment against Stephen Cohen, with discussion forum. [Plastic]

"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]

"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." [InternetNews]

"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]

"Case puts most bizarre domain name back in the spotlight." By David Lawlor. [CNN Money]

"The ownership of perhaps the most valuable domain name on the Internet, sex.com, could be decided within two weeks." by Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired]

"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]

"Yahoo Inc., which is trying to distance itself from adult-oriented merchandise and advertising, has landed in another sex skirmish." [Wall Street Journal]