Spamhaus safe from ICAAN
p2pnet.net News:- Britain’s anti-spam house, Spamhaus, decided to ignore an American district court ruling ordering it to pay $11,715,000 in damages to e360insight and e360insight’s David Linhardt.
Spamhaus was also told to, “remove Linhardt’s ROKSO record and to cease blocking Linhardt’s spam”.
But the Illinois ruling, “shows U.S. courts can be bamboozled by spammers with ease,” said Spamhaus at the time, saying the suit went to default judgement when Spamhaus didn’t accept US jurisdiction and, therefore, didn’t defend it.
e360 also wanted a court order to have Spamhaus’ domain name delisted.
What would happen if spamhaus.org was suspended by ICANN?
“Spamhaus.org’s Spam Advisory List, the Spamhaus Block List, blocks 50 Billion spams per day across the Internet, therefore the effect of suddenly not blocking such a large amount of spam would mean that volume of unwanted junk hitting mail server queues all over the world,” says ceo Steve Linford on Spamhaus site. “That in itself has a technical effect we can not properly estimate but would certainly cause very serious problems in most countries.
“Technical issues aside, the vast majority of those 50 Billion spams are highly illegal, spam for drugs, extreme pornography, scams and bank phishes. The effect of 650 million email boxes (Spamhaus’ userbase) suddenly receiving such a barrage of illegal spam, scams and bank phishes is, in my opinion, extremely dangerous. For this reason alone we believe that ICANN suspending spamhaus.org is almost certainly a no-starter.”
But ICANN says it couldn’t suspend the domain, even if it wanted to.
“Even if ICANN were properly brought before the court in this matter, which ICANN has not been, ICANN cannot comply with any order requiring it to suspend or place a client hold on Spamhaus.org or any specific domain name because ICANN does not have either the ability or the authority to do so,” it states.
“Only the Internet registrar with whom the registrant has a contractual relationship – and in certain instances the Internet registry – can suspend an individual domain name.
“ICANN has made this posting in response to community interest expressed on this topic and will continue to monitor this matter.”
Also See:
decided to ignore – Spamhaus ignores US court, September 15, 2006
Spamhaus – Spamhaus answer to the Proposed Order to suspend spamhaus.org, October 10, 2006
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