The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) , said in a statement Wednesday that it does not have the power or authority to comply with a proposed motor hotel order that it suspend the Internet service of the Spamhaus Project . Spamhaus is a volunteer - unravel antispam service .
In a proposed order last Friday , Judge Charles Kocoras of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois called on the organizations responsible for for registering the Spamhaus.org Internet address to freeze the organisation ’s Internet inspection and repair . Both ICANN , the nonprofit constitution dress up to negociate the knowledge base name organization of the Internet , and Toronto - ground Tucows , the Spamhaus.org recorder , are named in the order .
The lawcourt peril to shut down Spamhaus for ignoring an $ 11.7 million discernment against it . The aim parliamentary procedure followed a Sept. 13 opinion in which Spamhaus was postulate to pay off damages and stop lean an einsteinium - mail marketing company call E360Insight in its database of get it on spammers .
Spamhaus , base in London , has said that it ignored the judgment because it can not be enforced in the U.K.
“ Even if ICANN were the right way brought before the motor inn in this matter , which ICANN has not been , ICANN can not comply with any order requiring it to suspend or lay a client appreciation on Spamhaus.org or any specific domain name because ICANN does not have either the power or the authority to do so , ” the organization suppose .
ICANN read that in most cases only the cyberspace registrar with whom the registrant has a contractual family relationship can freeze an individual orbit name . Tucows officials could not be reached for remark .
ICANN said it plans to continue to monitor the situation .
