Internet governance organisation ICANN has said it does not have the authority to suspend the website of The Spamhaus Project.
An Illinois court last week proposed pulling Spamhaus.org in response to a lawsuit brought against the anti-spam organisation by an company it accuses of spamming.
The threat of domain loss came after the anti-spam organisation refused to comply with a September ruling by a US court requiring it to pay $11.7m in compensation to e360 Insight, pull the organisation’s listing, and post a notice stating that it was wrong to say e360 Insight was involved in sending junk mail.
In the proposed court order, published last week, Judge Charles Kocoras of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois calls on either ICANN or Tucows, the Spamhaus.org registrar, to pull or suspend the domain in response to Spamhaus’s non-compliance with the court’s original ruling.
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