Here's a great plan - one that could only be dreamed up by a set of geniuses running a spam outfit:

• Get Spamhaus to blacklist your domain due to the enormous volume of crap you spew out
• Be mad that you get blocked, and sue Spamhaus in a jurisdiction they don't reside in
• Noticing that your judgement for millions of bucks didn't have any impact (gee, the out of country company ignored you - shocker), whine to a federal judge about it
• To cap the whole thing, watch ICANN say "I can't"

The statement from ICANN is just delicious:

Even if ICANN were properly brought before the court in this matter, which ICANN has not been, ICANN cannot comply with any order requiring it to suspend or place a client hold on Spamhaus.org or any specific domain name because ICANN does not have either the ability or the authority to do so. Only the Internet registrar with whom the registrant has a contractual relationship - and in certain instances the Internet registry - can suspend an individual domain name.

Heh. For some reason, the term "tool" keeps coming to mind in reference to the angry spammers...

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