After several years on the lam, the man who hijacked the domain name Sex.com from Gary Kremen in late 2000 was finally captured by Mexican authorities and turned over to U.S. Marshals and the U.S. Border Patrol.

Stephen M. Cohen commandeered the Sex.com domain in 2000 and used it to operate a pornography site. After a messy, bizarre trial, Cohen was ordered to return control of the sex.com domain to Kremen by the U.S. District Court, not long after which the court ordered Cohen to pay $65 million to Kremen in restitution.

Unsurprisingly, Cohen fled the country and stayed in Tijuana, Mexico, operating yet another pornography site, before Mexican authorities detained him after he tried to renew his work permit to operate his porn business.

The irony is hardly going to escape anyone about how a man on the run from authorities for stealing a high-profile Internet property attempts something legitimate as to register and later renew his work permit to operate a sex site.

Cohen, who was said to be living large, was arrested for contempt of court as based on his failure to pay Kremen, the latter of whom registered the indubitably highly-priced domain sex.com domain in 1994 during the early days of the explosion that was to be the commercial Internet. At the time, domain registration was free, and the earliest of such domains registered turned out to be among the most valued items on the Internet not too long after.

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