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.
Posted on 01 November 2006 by
Virus Bulletin
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