Last year, electronic marketing firm e360insight sued the anti-spam blocklist Spamhaus in U.S. District Court over being included on the Spamhaus website as an alleged spammer. Since Spamhaus is a UK company, the jurisdiction of a U.S. Court may be questionable, but Spamhaus found (the hard way) that the court was still willing to enter a default judgment. e360insight then attempted to take Spamhaus.org by using the US Marshall service to try to seize it from its domain registrar, Tucows, but failed on a technicality.

Sadly, the latest development is that the US Federal Court in Illinois has granted e360's motion to enter its judgment against Spamhaus in the U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, allowing the seizure from Tucows, which maintains offices there for one of its products.

This would be bad news. However, Spamhaus hasn't been sitting around idly waiting to be crushed by the U.S. legal system. When Tucows was served, e360 had the nasty shock of discovering that Tucows was no longer the registrar for Spamhaus. Spamhaus.org has now been registered through Gandi in France. We're pretty sure that the French aren't about to hand over a UK company's domain registration due to a U.S. judgment.

The Spamhaus guys can be found to be going "neener, neener, neener!" in news:news.admin.net-abuse.email in response to e360's posting there.

http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement.las so?ref=3 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2006 102700261694 http://www.e360insight.com/news.php