Register.com Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Verio

soupa points out that Register.com has successfully obtained an injunction against Verio for using Register's whois database to spam for domain hosting business. Ahem, while they're at it, they need to go after Interland too, who sends me multiple snail mail advertisements per week to my domain contact address. What are they thinking? I didn't bite on their offer last week, but maybe this week I'll be looking for domain hosting? Here's Register.com's press release. Update: 12/11 5:52 PM by michael: I received some junk mail from Register.com today (the same day this was posted, if you're reading later), asking if I wanted to register some domains with them; it was, of course, addressed to the address culled from Internic's database. So let's keep Register.com's position straight: other people spamming from whois database: BAD; Register.com spamming from whois database: GOOD. Just so that's clear.

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Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

[www.sorehands.com]

Did you notice that register.com included charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. in the complaint?

I'd like to see some of the SPAM harvesters to get hit with that. Emails on websites are to be used to contact people, not to spam people. I had to take off the emails and write cgi to prevent spammers from getting the address.

The line

[www.sorehands.com]

I get so much spam, I like seeing them slapped.

Keep in mind, if Register.com wins, it may be winning based on a click-wrap license. How far do you want this click-wrap licenses to go?

By reading this, you agree to send me all your money.