FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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 Vote-auction.com back online

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 Berlin, October 22, 2000

 Below you find the latest press release by Vote-auction.com
 [formerly voteauction.com]. We have included any information
 on the latest developments of the site and the people and
 users behind it.

 For any further information feel free to contact
 pr@vote-auction.com or in urgent cases call +49-175-2066954.

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 Voteauction.com is dead, long live Vote-auction.com


 The "Leader of the Election Industry", voteauction.com
 has regained access to the web via its new domain

 http://www.vote-auction.com
 
 During the past week, diverse rumours and hear-say has
 been passed concerning the website which explores the
 high-risk consumer markets of the american election
 industry.
 
 The site's original domain had been ordered shut down
 by a local american court in the u.s. state of illinois
 earlier this week. But whilst the american authorities
 took their time and tax payers' money to legally pursue
 almost everybody related to the existence of the website,
 the owners of the website worked on a redesign and 
 strategy paper for version 2.0 of the project.
 
 
 (Il)legal Battle?
 
 The legal authorities of Chicago, Illinois, made every
 effort to get the Site out of service during the last
 2 weeks. Amongst the original creator of the project,
 James Baumgartner, and the owner of the domain, Hans
 Bernhard, they also sued the following people:
 
 . domainbank.com: domainbank inc., the registry where
   the original domain vote-auction.com was registered,
   is named as a defendant in a chicago legal case.
   it remains open for discussion how it should be
   possible that a dns (domain name service) provider
   could ever be responsible for contents accessible
   via any of the domains they are providing routing
   services for.
   
 . silverserver.at: silverserver's president and cto
   are also named defendants in named legal case. 
   silverserver is vote-auction.com's internet
   access provider. as above stated, as providers
   cannot be held responsible for the contents the
   are providing access to, we can only interpret 
   silverserver's names on the list of defendants as
   a indirect means of repression to force vote-auction.com
   to go offline. we can provide you with a clear
   statement from the president of silverserver:
 
   "SILVER SERVER clearly and fully supports vote-auction.com.
    SILVER SERVER president, o.o, is proud to be the billing
    contact for vote-auction.com. actually we received very
    interesting offers by investors to launch vote-auction.com
    in russia and japan." 


...absatz der erklaert wieso man offline war....

...absatz der auf die letzten roumors aus us eingeht...

...absatz der die neue ausrichtugn erklaert...

...absatz der auf die legalen probleme eingeht...

...absatz der auf die user eingeht....

...absatz der 

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