Spamhaus rests easy
US judge rules against suspending Spamhaus domain.
At the end of a month-long court battle, a US judge has ruled that UK
anti-spam advisory organization Spamhaus will not have its domain suspended
as a penalty for mislabelling a spammer.
Back in September, a US court found Spamhaus guilty of mislabelling
Illinois-based company e360 Insight as a spammer, and ordered the British
organization to pay $11.7 million in damages. Spamhaus merely laughed off
the ruling at first, pointing out that the US court had no authority over
the UK-based organization.
Determined to have their vengeance however, e360 Insight and its head David
Linhardt then demanded, as part of an appeal, that domain management
organization ICANN be ordered to suspend the spamhaus.org domain.
However, Judge Charles Kocoras issued an order late last month denying e360
Insight's motion on the basis that the suspension of the spamhaus.org
domain would cut off all lawful online activities of Spamhaus, not just
those in contravention of the Illinois court's injunction.
01 November 2006
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