[2] It has commonly been the target of DDoS attacks and lawsuits from organizations listed in the SCBL.
[3] Email security company IronPort Systems announced its acquisition of SpamCop on November 24, 2003,[4] but it remained independently run by Julian Haight.
Julian Haight left approximately two years after the Cisco acquisition.
[6] SpamCop views itself as an attempt to stop spam without the necessity of governmental intervention, but because it lacks the power of a government or large ISP, it may have greater difficulty dealing with spammers' expertise as well as the large bot networks that they control and that they used to cripple Blue Security with a massive DDoS attack.
The outage resulted in messages being rejected due to the blacklist DNS entries all directing to the domain parking service.