LATEST PRESS RELEASE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Berlin/Vienna, November 02, 2000, 7 am CET | |
Vote-auction falls victim to ILLEGAL DNS-SHUTDOWN | |
Below you find the latest press release by [V]ote-auction: http://62.116.31.68 You can also find this press release at For any further information feel free to contact or in urgent cases call our ubermorgen.com hotlines |
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[V] Vote-auction falls victim to ILLEGAL DNS-SHUTDOWN | |
[V]ote-auction, the only platform worldwide allowing end-consumers
to take part in the U.S. election industry [formerly called "soft money"],
falls again victim to a repressive campaign against free speech.
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[V] Why was the domain shut down in this way? | |
Our first domain, voteauction.com, was
registered with a dns-registry located in the U.S. Our "late" domain, vote-auction.com, however, was registered via a company located in Germany, i.e. outside of U.S. jurisdiction. This is why, appearantly, some-one in the U.S., probably parties from the Chicago law suit where vote-auction.com is named as a defendant, decided to just forget about legal proceedings, and went directly to InterNIC, ignoring international law. |
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[V] What will happen to [V]ote-auction now? | |
Our lawyers are currently investigating, as you might imagine. On a more practical level, we are reachable via our IP - our new url
is: Using the IP address will finally give us full protection against any further actions against our site, as IP addresses are not dependant on domain name services. Luckily, this DNS-SHUTDOWN was not intelligentely timed. On a funny note, one could say that now they either have to shut down the whole Internet or arrest the whole US- population, OR, which is more likely, our site will stay functional and online. |
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[V] [V]ote-auction is BACK UNDER http://62.116.31.68 | |
Thanks to the incredible work of our dear provider SILVER SERVER [www.sil.at], we were able to get back online fast and are now reachable at: http://62.116.31.68 This is the safest address currently available. Vote-auction can also be reached under: Vote-auction has issued a free speech support campaign in order to
gather hundreds of vote-auction and voteauction domains or install sub-domains
all pointing to: From November, 2nd, the following domains shall be active: |
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[V] Vote-auction.com ADDS NEW FEATURES | |
Now to some really good news! Vote-auction, still the "Leader of the Election Industry", and the first mover in this field, has added various new features: [] Updated figures, automated processes [] International polls [] 1-CLICK-BIDDING function [] ALL NEW MESSAGE-BOARD, heavily crowded [] Extended PRESS-ARCHIVE, over 200 internat. news-segments |
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[V] Final note | |
We want to end this press release with a quote from chief counsel to the California secretary of state, Bill Jones, who seems to have a somewhat "personal" view on free speech: "whether this is a parody [...] that this man is running, Source: CNN, "Burden of Proof", Oct 24 2000 http://www.cnn.com/video/burden/2000/10/24/show.rm80.ram Appearantely, there are other individuals and/or authorities, who share
his viewpoint. |
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For the Vote-auction team: lizvlx |
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PLEASE NOTE: If you want to access Vote-auction
via pr@[62.116.31.68] We will not be able to receive messages sent to any of the old addresses. Thank you. |
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press and media contact: | pr@[62.116.31.68] |