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A federal judge has ordered ICANN to delete a spam group’s domain name, spamhaus.com. ICANN claims that they can’t comply with the courts orders as they do not have the ability to delete names. Instead, the group says that this can only be done by the Registrars.…
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Hotmail filed lawsuits against eight companies who had sent unsolicited emails from hotmail accounts. The courts backed Hotmail, owned by Microsoft, and issued preliminary injunctions against the eight companies.…
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Thomas Cameron, a network consultant, suffered three days of downtime when his internet account was cancelled because his ISP had not thoroughly investigated the source of recent spamming activity. Thrown off because she hadn’t used the full numerical address, the ISP representative had simply unplugged Cameron without warning. Once she …
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The country of Tonga had set its TLD .to out for resale through the company Tonic. Now they’ve introduced a no-spam policy. Any .to domains involved in spam will be booted, says His Royal Highness Crown Prince Tupouto’a.…
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Sanford Wallace ran one of the largest ‘spamming’ companies in America, Cyber Promotions. Even after having his company shut down, Bigfoot, a company that provides free email addresses, won a lawsuit prohibiting Wallace from sending emails to Bigfoot users and users of Bigfoot affiliations.…
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Cyber Promotions, Inc., an email marketing company most known for spamming, is currently in the middle of a trademark dispute with Hormel over the use of the world “spam”. Hormel demanded that Cyber Promotions stop using the word ‘spam’ in their domain spamford.com, but the company rejected this request.…
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Netcom claims it had to block incoming email from Hotmail, a free email service, due to significant spam from a Hotmail email address. The majority of the spam was head to various AOL email addresses, but AOL rejected the messages as spam, causing them to pile up on Netcom’s servers, …
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Web Systems, an internet development company, filed for a restraining order against Cyber Promotions, a notorious web spammer. The suit claims that Cyber Promotions used Gavin Clarkson’s, Chairman of Web Systems, email address in spamming, which in turn flooded the web development company’s servers.…
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In a suit that both sides are calling victory, AOL members can now block spam messages from Cyber Promotions; however Cyber Promotions can continue sending junk email to those AOL members that have not blocked them.…
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