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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe is correct - I am investigating.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It appears so far that this student, Christopher
Mettin is an entrepeneur who has created a </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TLD registry that is part of
Public-Root.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is located at: <A
href="http://tld.gqbc-online.com/index.htm">http://tld.gqbc-online.com/index.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is not a fraud or a crime. If INAIC is in
violation of any laws or registration requirements,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>then Joe should report them to the proper
authorities. Oh wait, he does that all of the time and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>lo and behold, the matter falls into a black
hole.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Translation: Joe's vendettas against people are of
no concern to law enforcement. They regularily toss</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>his complaints into the trash. His claim is that
they are feckless and harried by other crimes and "Oh, they</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>just don't have enough time to
investigate".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nonsense. If half of Joe's claims were true,
many people would be fined or in prison. Yet, no one has been
arrested</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or convicted of anything. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh, and by the way, the website listed above is
STILL ONLINE and operating today? How can this be, if its such a </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>horrible fraud? I'm sure the German police would
have stopped this student if he was committing a crime - right?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course, the answer really is that this is a very
smart young man who is starting a business of his own and is</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>doing nothing wrong. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe's web page on this matter (<A
href="http://baptista.cynikal.net/gqnet/news-item.html">http://baptista.cynikal.net/gqnet/news-item.html</A>)
is full of lies, distortions and slander. Let me list</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>these:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe claims that the principal of Gymnasium Querfurt
said that the student would be "punished" for some "wrong-doing". I see no
mention of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>any wrong-doing, except perhaps that he did not
make it clear enough that his website was not the official school website.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The principal mentions some "trouble caused to Joe
by the student", but there is no mention of what this is. My guess:
Joe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>invented some vague complaint and, as he always
does, puts on an air of authority, making some claim that he has </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>some rights to speak for the namespace community.
The principal probably took him at his word and thought he was</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>apologizing to some representative of a large group
of people. Joe is NO SUCH THING. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On Joe's Querfurt news page, he makes some
reference to the student contacting ARIN for something. First of all, ARIN
has</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>no authority in Europe - RIPE is the RIR for
Europe. Secondly, as Joe often does, he provides NO proof of any such contact.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You would think that if Joe had any evidence of
this, he would not hesitate to post it on this page, but its not there. Why?
Probably</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>because it is all a lie. Joe can clear this up by
presenting such evidence of a fraudulent contact between this student and
ARIN.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now, lets look at the myriad of lies and
distortions in the September 21, 2009 section of Joe's Querfurt "news"
page.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In this he states: "<FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>German high school students at the Gymnasium Querfurt are the recent
victims of a Top-Level Domain (TLD) sales scam run by Dutch con artist </FONT><A
href="http://bit.ly/aY8KoZ"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Herman
Xennt</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>. Herman known to the
Netherlands police is a convicted felon who was arrested for drug trafficking
and tax evasion."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lets take this apart:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. German High School students were NOT victims of
a recent Top-Level Domain sales scam. INAIC is a legitimate business with many
paying customers. If it was a scam, it would have been reported and shut down by
the Dutch authorities. Joes claim that the police are</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>simply "too busy" all of the time, is
nonsense.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Joe calls Herman Xennt a "con artist". Show me
convictions for fraud that Herman has. There aren't any. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. Herman is not a convicted felon, that I can
tell. I have asked for official copies of any such court papers and
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe has refused to provide them. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4. Some folks were living at the Cyberbunker (Not
Xennt) and were running an XTC lab and it caught fire. They arrested
everyone</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>there including Herman. The subsequent police
investigation found that Herman WAS NOT involved in any way in this
drug</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>lab and he was RELEASED. Joe doesn't tell you that,
does he?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5. Finally, this section finishes up with one of
the old Baptista saws: "Tax evasion". Again, Joe WHERE ARE THE
COURT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RECORDS?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the next section, Joe hallucinates:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The school
joins an impressive list of organizations on the INAIC victims list. Both the
Government of Turkey and SITA (Societe Internationale de Telecommunications
Aeronautique) participated in marketing stolen property through INAIC. In these
cases the intellectual property rights to top-level domains sold by INAIC are
part of a commercial fraud involving former partners of Herman Xennt and the
</FONT><A href="http://bit.ly/bIzZqq"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Top
Level Domain Association</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>, another
front for the organization."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lets see:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. The school was not a victim of anyone, including
INAIC.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Turkey and SITA were victims alright - of Joe.
In 2005, after Herman and others would not let him run the show, he set out to
destroy the effort and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as part of this effort, he threatened and insulted
people in the Turkish govt and SITA (as well as those at Tiscali and others)
into dropping their support</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for the project. You can see one of his
accusations against his victims here, that they participated in "marketing
stolen property" - in the US you</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>can be sued into poverty for making those kinds of
false claims.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. What does the TLDA have to do with any of this?
I'll tell you what - the TLDA IS A VICTIM, again, a victim of Joe Baptista. As a
founding member and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>officer of the TLDA, I can tell you that Joe has
done nothing but try to destroy our organization. As we began to
accomplish things, Joe misused our</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>public e-mail lists to further his mad vendetta
against Herman and Co. It got so bad that we finally banished him from the
lists. Joe would regularily insult</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>our members, including calling Karl Peters a
"welfare bum" and insulting his family. He did similar things to Bradley
Thornton, one of our other active members.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This actually led to a loss of credibility for the
TLDA since all the public saw when they looked in on us was Joe attacking and
everyone else trying to </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>defend themselves against his vile
actions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The next section of the website may contain some
kernel of truth. It appears that INAIC has confused Christopher's gqbc-online.de
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>with an official school project. According to the
school principal, this is not the case. This error should be corrected
asap.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Funny thing is, that later in the new pages, Joe
states:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Christopher
Mettin the schools 18 year old student network administrator runs the </FONT><A
href="http://bit.ly/cUW3Z1"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>GQnet</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> student project for
the </FONT><A href="http://bit.ly/ciRfu"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Gymnasium Querfurt</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe, wait a moment - you just said that GQNet is
being misrepresented as official school page, now you are claiming that it is
official?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which is is, Joe?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe concludes the Querfurt news section by
complaining about incorporation of INAIC. As stated before, it is
probably</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>illegal in Holland to run a business that is not
legitimate and if so many people were being defrauded, the Dutch authorities
would</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>have closed down this business a long time ago. Why
haven't they? Could it be that INAIC is a legitimate business? You</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>judge for yourself. : <A
href="http://www.inaic.com">http://www.inaic.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Conclusion: This "news" page is just another one of
Joe's attempts to tar people who would not kow-tow to his demands. Joe
has</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a need to have people consider him a "wise internet
guru" and demands that they all sit at his feet and respect his "wisdom".
He</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>has falsly claimed that he is a "representative" of
the "public root" or otherwise represents the interest of some unknown TLD
holders</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and others, yet no one of substance has ever come
forward saying that they cede that role to him. Anyone who dares to
question</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>his authority or go against him will be on the
receiving end of his wrath. He will launch an intense vendetta against that
person or</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>persons and will attempt to recruit others into
this effort. This is what happened with the TLDA in the last 3 years - he
attempted to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>use the legitimacy of the TLDA as a weapon in his
vendetta against Herman Xennt and as a result, almost destroyed it. When
those</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>he tries to recruit show hesitation to join the
cause, he adds them to his list of "enemies" and attacks them as well. This is
evident</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in his attacks against Karl Peters, the Chairman of
the TLDA board. When Karl asked him to calm down and refused to kow-tow
to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>him, Joe called Karl a "welfare bum" and insulted
Karl's family. A similar fate befell Bradley Thornton as
well.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What Joe did in 2005 was to destroy a business
opportunity that would have benefitted thousands of organizations and would
have</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>been a credible alternative to the monopoly of
ICANN. Everyone should realize what damage this psychotic has caused. The
reason</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that I keep harping on this is that I am determined
that he not be able to cause any further damage to people. Education and
information</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>about what he is will go along way towards
mitigating future damage. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thats why I have the list <A
href="http://lair.lionpost.net/mailman/listinfo/baptista-offenses">http://lair.lionpost.net/mailman/listinfo/baptista-offenses</A>
online - as a repository for all of the information regarding</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe's antics. Anyone with information on his antics
that is not currently on that list, feel free to join the list and post
it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My conclusion, until and unless other facts are
presented: There was NO SCANDAL involving the Gymnasium Querfurt or Christopher
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mettin. This student is simply an entrepeneur that
has started a small business and I wish him well and am so sorry that he
has</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>become a pawn in the psychosis of Joe
Baptista. For the most part, the stuff on Joe's Querfurt news page is
misleading, omissive and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in places, a flat out lie. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your patience while I
investigated.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you have any questions, please contact
me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=baptista@publicroot.org href="mailto:baptista@publicroot.org">Joe
Baptista</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ga@gnso.icann.org
href="mailto:ga@gnso.icann.org >> GA">ga@gnso.icann.org >> GA</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:17
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [ga] The ICANN / INAIC scandal
drags in the Gymnasium Querfurt high school again - Palmer investigates</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>It has just come to my attention John Palmer is investigating
the Gymnasium Querfurt scandal - <A
href="http://bit.ly/5AEP1w">http://bit.ly/5AEP1w</A> - expect more insightful
comments to come this way.<BR><BR>cheers<BR>joe
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