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From the taking-my-ball-and-going-home department
From FTV [wftv.com]:
A Florida company that sells online commercial payment software has sued its former chief technology officer, claiming that a porn site snapped up its web address when he allowed it to expire. Global Secure Epay LLC filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court. The St. Petersburg company accuses co-founder and former CTO Lev Gorodinski of keeping vital passwords, software code and other sensitive information after abruptly quitting. [...]
The company's registration with GoDaddy expired and Gorodinski refused to give the company the information needed to access the account and re-establish its ownership, Epay officials claim.[...]
The last customer, a preschool, left when the Epay web domain was turned into a pornography site, the lawsuit alleges.[...]
Why is it always porn sites?
