[cones688]

> not a good match for a dispute like this

I don't understand why everyone thinks MS should have given the notice, then noIP would have sent emails to all their customers "MS is about to take all our domains down" and the C&C's would have had time to reconfigure or transfer domains etc.

Speed and silence were key to the botnets being taken down.

Also it is very naive to think noIP doesn't know that it makes a lot of it's money from botnet hosters - according to previous discussions the abuse@ address does not respond and they don't take action against malicious hosts.