According to No-IP's previous official statement, the order was served without prior notice: http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-

According to No-IP's previous official statement, the order was served without prior notice: http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-takedown/ http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-mic.... Courts do not have carte blanche - they have laws that govern the bounds of their authority. The implication of the parent comment is that even if Microsoft was given a court order, it wasn't necessarily legal for the court to do so.