Cracking Down on Botnets

another case of "catching a botnet by the tail"

http://www.emailsecuritymatters.com/site/blog/all-about-spam...

although really essential and important, what bothers me is that, due to some misconceptions about botnets, this kind of effort keeps being presented as a big step towards "less spams" or "less malware" which is wrong on the longer term ...

"a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order cutting off 277 Internet domains believed to be run by criminals as the Waledac bot"

I would expect most botnet domains are hosted in a country with lax cyber laws.

Update: Researched a little further, ICANN owns the DNS root zone and is run in the US, does the US really have the authority to cut off pieces of the internet? WTF? I really hope I'm missing something.