Metafilter: Hoopla.com Stolen, Net Sol says, "Oops! Not Our Problem!"
"Leslie Harpold's Hoopla.com was stolen from her through a series of dodgy faxes (or something...) and now, Network Solutions is throwing up their hands and telling her they can't do anything." (April 12, 2002)

peterme.com: Who knew that Google lied?
Peter Merholz notices that Google suppresses the Textism googlebomb by falsely claiming there are no links to Textism page about Verisign. (May 20, 2002)

Textism: Hoopla and Verisign
How an unidentified stranger was able to take hoopla.com and why Verisign won't transfer it back. (April 12, 2002)

Textism: WTF?
"NetSol, who are by any objective measure a stumbling army of stumbling boobs that stumbles more from year to year, have sold the great Leslie Harpold's hoopla.com domain out from underneath her." (April 9, 2002)