Judge Charles Kocoras wisely and bravely found in favour of Spamhaus in his decision, which marks a clear victory for the spam blacklister. The case was brought by e-mail marketer e360Insight whose purpose for sueing was that Spamhaus had included e360Insight on the Spamhaus‘ blacklist.
If e360insight’s proposed order directing ICANN to suspend the spamhaus.org domain had won the spamlist would have gone down – the list is responsible for stopping over 50 billion spam messages per day.
Judge Kocoras wrote that the relief e360insight sought is “too broad to be warranted in this case” and that suspending the domain name would “cut off all lawful online activities of Spamhaus, not just those that are in contravention” of the default judgment. He also called e360insight’s motion one that “does not correspond to the gravity of the offending conduct.”
(via arstechnica)