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Saturday, February 20, 2010

For sale by auction: sex.com (reserve of $1 million)

Who could forget the saga of sex.com, the domain that just continues to keep giving? Indeed, it has had such a history that books have been written about it and kept many a journalist in beers for good measure. The rights to ownership of the sex.com domain were at the centre of a 10 year long legal fight, involving allegations of theft from the original owner and all sorts of shenanigans thereafter.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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