This ends Dynamic Dolphin's business as a domain registrar. On November 22, 2013, ICANN terminated the Registrar Agreement with Dynamic Dolphin. Media Breakaway is the owner of Dynamic Dolphin, Inc, an ICANN accredited registrar who, according to KnujOn, is one of the few Internet registrars that serve the majority of spamvertised web sites. In 2008, CBS News reported that Media Breakaway was charging people cell-phone charges for supposedly free ringtones. MySpace alleged that due to Scott, "some of the messages were sent from accounts whose sign-on information had been hijacked by phishing." An arbitrator on Jawarded MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney's fees against " spam king" Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC, of Westminster, Colo., "for barraging MySpace members with unsolicited advertisements." The award was 5% of the amount demanded by MySpace. Steven Richter, President and General Counsel of the company, denied the allegations. In January 2007, his company Media Breakaway was sued by popular social networking website MySpace for allegedly gaining access to members' accounts and using them to send millions of spam messages appearing to be from users' MySpace "friends". He was interviewed on The Daily Show by Rob Corddry on 30 March 2004. One of the most famous emails was the offer of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards in 2003 Richter claims to have sold 40,000 decks before they were even printed. His company once sent some 100 million emails a day. Richter was listed in the ROKSO top 100 spammers, but is no longer included there. Steven Richter, who is Scott Richter's father and President and General Counsel of Scott's company, commented "OptIn is profitable but for these lawsuits." Richter paid $7 million to Microsoft in 2006 in a settlement arising out of the lawsuit alleging illegal spam activities. Microsoft's refusal to settle a $20 million claim based on Washington state spam law is what forced OptInRealBig to file for bankruptcy. The company claimed to have assets of less than US$10 million and debts of more than $50 million.
Facing a $500 million judgment in Washington state from the Microsoft case in March 2005, filed for bankruptcy protection.
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued Richter in December 2003. He and his companies have been sued several times for mass sending unsolicited advertisements. His companies were major senders of Email spam and he was at one time referred to as the 'Spam King', as at one point his company was sending some 100 million emails a day. Other related companies are Dynamic Dolphin and. Scott Richter (born 18 July 1971) is the CEO of Media Breakaway, formerly known as LLC.
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