[NA-Discuss] Dealing with the Criminal Element

[Danny Younger]

[excerpt]

"A California based commercial Internet service provider whose clients included a laundry list of spammers and scammers is now offline, after the last of the company's upstream Internet providers decided to the pull the plug. 

Atrivo, a.k.a "Intercage," of Northern California, ceased to be reachable from any points on the Internet early Sunday morning when the ISP's sole remaining provider - Pacific Internet Exchange (PIE) - stopped routing traffic for the troubled company." 

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/09/internet_shuns_us_based_isp_am.html

By the way, this is the hosting firm highly praised by ICANN-accredited registrar Estdomains (whose CEO was found "guilty of entering illegal data into card payment systems of Internet stores for the purpose of material gain, creating forged documents, using forged documents, and money laundering").