Tag archive: Spamhaus

The U.K.-based Spamhaus Project is in danger of losing its domain name as the result of a lawsuit filed in U.S. court. Spamhaus maintains blacklists of sites and computers known to be used by spammers to distributed illegal messages, phishing schemes, viruses, worms, and unsolicited commercial email—by their estimates, they help protect the mailboxes of mord than 650 million Internet users (including sites like the White House, the… Read More

“Spamhaus said “pink contracts,” which have been around for many years in the anti-spam community, are at the root of the problem. Defined as agreements between ISPs and spammers in which the Internet host agrees to exempt the spammer from the company's normal terms of service in exchange for a hefty fee, the practice held myth status until anti-spam groups were able to prove financial relationships between ISPs and… Read More