Regardless of who makes it happen, the solution to the abuse of intermediary service providers is increased cooperation and transparency, not controversial one-off takeovers by individual private companies.

All Malware Defendants:
b. Intentionally and knowingly accessing and sending malicious code to the
protected computers and operating systems of Microsoft and its customers
without authorization, in order to infect those computers and intending to
cause damage and benefiting therefrom;

The company's services went offline Monday when Microsoft served it with the restraining order. Although Microsoft doesn't accuse No-IP of wrongdoing, it alleged the company failed to take prompt action when cybercriminals used its service for managing botnets, or networks of hacked computers.

Microsoft intended to simply filter out the botnet-related traffic from No-IP's domains. But a technical error knocked some of No-IP's customers offline, although Microsoft said on Tuesday the issues had been resolved. No-IP disagreed.