Short Take: Judge bars Sex.com owner from using domain name

A federal judge has barred the owner of Sex.com from using the Internet domain name after finding he fraudulently obtained rights to it. U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Jose, Calif., issued a preliminary injunction ordering rights to the domain transferred to San Francisco entrepreneur Gary Kremen, who said Stephen Cohen used fraud to secure the coveted Web address. Ware found Cohen forged a 1995 letter that persuaded Internet name registrar Network Solutions to transfer the domain.

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