E360 Files Lawsuit To Shut Down Spamhaus

Robert McMillan of itWorldCanada writes:

After winning a US$11.7 million judgment against the Spamhaus Project Ltd., e-mail marketer e360 Insight LLC is asking a federal court to shut down the antispam service.

E360 has filed a proposed court order with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois that calls on the organizations responsible for registering the Spamhaus.org Internet address to suspend the organization’s Internet service. Both the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Tucows Inc., the Spamhaus.org registrar, are named in the order. The proposed order can be found at this website.

The proposal follows a Sept. 13 ruling from Judge Charles Kocoras ordering Spamhaus to pay damages and stop listing e360 Insight in its database of known spammers. Spamhaus, based in London, initially ignored the judgment saying that it could not be enforced in the U.K. But observers worry that e360’s proposal could be approved by the judge, possibly resulting in a shut down of the service. [Source: itWorldCanada]