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Home 29 Feb 2008 Virginia Supreme Court Narrowly Upholds Jaynes' Conviction Email Way back in 2004 the country's first criminal spam case, Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jaynes, convicted large scale spammer Jeremy Jaynes under the Virginia anti-spam law, and sentenced him to nine years in jail. I was the Commonwealth's technical expert and wrote about my experience. Since then he's been working his way through the appeals process, losing at each stage. Today the Virginia Supreme Court handed down its decision. They upheld the conviction, but only by a single vote, 4-3. See more ... posted at: 23:53 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/jaynesappeal.trackback 27 Feb 2008 More on the Front Running Class Action Suit ICANN Several people pointed out that although the suit still hasn't appeared in PACER, copies of the complaint are available online, including this one at Lextext. Having read it, I'm rather underwhelmed. See more ... posted at: 22:16 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/front2.trackback The Front Running Class Action Suit ICANN In a recent press release, Los Angeles law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner says it's filed a class action suit against Network Solutions and ICANN for front running. (If you tuned in late, NetSol admits that if you query a domain name on their web site, they will speculatively register it so that it's only available through NetSol for five days, at their above market price.) This is a very peculiar suit. See more ... posted at: 00:26 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/frontrunsuit.trackback 16 Feb 2008 We're CAN SPAM compliant! Whoopee. Email Recently, several of my friends have been writing about mailers who boast that they're compliant with CAN SPAM. Here's our distilled advice in one handy word: don't. See more ... posted at: 14:06 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/compliant.trackback 15 Feb 2008 Dot travel continues to head down the tubes ICANN Last year I wrote two blog entries on the dire state of Tralliance, owner of the .travel registry, which was bailed out at the last minute by a large loan from the registry's controlling shareholder, Michael Egan. Since then they've taken some decisive steps on the road to irrelevance. Originally, they had strict rules about who was allowed to register, basically only members of a list of well known industry associations. As of December 21, they have new rules that seem to limit registrants to anyone who shows the faintest interest, with a preference to bulk registrations. (If you followed the history of .aero, the deja vú is intense.) In September, they sold their search.travel search engine for about $300K to a company controlled by Egan, stating they needed the cash to stay in business. Then, according to an SEC filing, Labigroup, another company controlled by Egan, has agreed to buy at least 25,000 .travel domains, producing over $250,000 of simulated revenue which looks an awful lot like taking money out of one pocket, waving it around, and then putting it back in one's other pocket, particularly since another SEC filing two weeks ago reveals that current owner theglobe.com is selling Tralliance to yet another LLC owned directly by Egan. See more ... posted at: 23:49 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/traveldrain.trackback 06 Feb 2008 Neustar and Afilias jump on the No Tasting bandwagon ICANN In a message posted to the ICANN GNSO list, Avri Doria forwarded along a most interesting document from Neustar, who runs the .biz domain. See more ... posted at: 09:30 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/biztaste.trackback 03 Feb 2008 There's a lot of money in domain tasting ICANN Dell's anti-tasting suit that I wrote about in December has been heating up, according to court documents filed in January. There's been a lot of predictable legal skirmishing in which the defendant registrars deny that they're also the registrants, claim that they're really outside the US so they haven't been served, argue about some server disks that the allegedly non-US defendant has at a data center in Florida, and so forth, but what really jumps out are the arguments about how much money this suit is (again allegedly) costing the defendants. See more ... posted at: 21:32 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/tastebucks.trackback

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