Gary Kremen claims he’s the rightful owner of the multi-million dollar domain, sex.com. He says that Stephen Cohen hijacked the domain in an identity spoof and tried suing both Cohen and Network Solutions for the faulty transfer. A Judge issued a free pass for Network Solutions (which Kremen vows to appeal), but his [...] Continue reading →

The .org domains got a boost of confidence when the price paid for engineering.org, $198,895, made it to the ‘top 25 prices ever paid for a domain name’ list. [...] Continue reading →

Verizon Wireless lawyers registered the domain name VerizonSucks.com to keep company critics from launching an anti-campaign, but they were surprised to find out that the publisher of 2006 had registered the name VerizonReallySucks.com. Verizon issued legal warnings to the site owner, who claims he just wanted to occasionally poke fun at the large company. [...] Continue reading →

Even though there’s no content on the site hell.com, the url pulls in over 100,000 unique visitors a month. However, the domain name is now up for sale in what promises to be a heated auction. The name broker HitDomains.com thinks they’ll get at least $8 million for the name. [...] Continue reading →

While some report the number of domains hijacked in a Serbian 'eTerrorist' attack to be in the high 2000's, Network Solutions says "No." The company maintains that very few websites were affected, and that their servers were not hacked. The hijacking was an age-old email spoof job, which is completely avoidable by every [...] Continue reading →

The site WhoAmI.com was hijacked from the rightful owner, Solid Oak Software, when someone from Serbia called Network Solutions pretending to be the account administrator and giving the whois data false information. Solid Oak is still waiting for Network Solutions to correct the error. [...] Continue reading →

Mark Hogarth spent a great deal of cash registering the names of famous authors, but he claims his intention was to send the traffic (via affiliate links) to popular book sites like Amazon.com. He says that he now realizes that he may have made a mistake by offering to sell some of the names [...] Continue reading →