Delivered-To: hans@ubermorgen.com
To: <pr@vote-auction.com>
Subject: Vote-auction.com back online
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:45:35 +0200
From: <pr@vote-auction.com>
X-Originating-IP: 212.84.244.173


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

-------------------------------------------------------- 

Vote-auction.com back online

-------------------------------------------------------- 

Berlin, October 22, 2000

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

You can also find this press release at
http://www.vote-auction.com/pr.htm

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

------------------------------------------------------- 


[V] Voteauction.com is dead, long live Vote-auction.com 

The "Leader of the Election Industry", vote-auction.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 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 site worked on a re-design and strategy paper for version 2.0 of the project.


[V] Sue 'em 'til they drop...

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 found it in the public's interest to sue:

. domainbank.com: Domainbank inc., is the registry where 
the original domain "voteauction.com" is registered. It is defendant in named Chicago legal case. 

. silverserver.at: Both SILVER SERVER's president as 
well as of one of the top technical staff are also named defendants in the Chicago legal case. SILVER SERVER is vote-auction.com's internet access provider. 


[V] (Il)legal Battle?

It remains open for discussion how it should be possible that a dns (domain name service) or an access provider could ever be responsible for contents accessible via domains they are providing routing services for. Vote-auction.com sees this as illegal practice in total violation of standards set by ICANN.

We can only interpret domainbank's and SILVER SERVER's name on the list of defendants as a indirect means of repression to force vote-auction.com to go offline. 

Concerning domainbank inc., this strategy seemed to work out for Chicago prosecutors: Because of domain- bank being involved in the legal case, the provider "politely asked" vote-auction.com to provide them with a USD 100,000.00 bond for potential legal costs. Vote-auction.com decided not to comply. Instead, we asked them to transfer our "voteauction.com" domain to another provider. This order was not fulfilled by domainbank, as they had at that time already made a "deal" with Chicago authorites "not to move the domain anywhere", as we were told by one of domain- bank's executives.

Concerning "defendant" SILVER SERVER, we can provide you with a clear statement from their president: 

"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."


[V] Users give full support - despite potential respression 

Lots of users of Vote-auction.com have described their support in various emails. This is another reason why we decided not to wait to get back online until local U.S. legal authorities understand that Vote-auction.com works for and NOT against democracy. We will keep on protecting any data which has been submitted to us by trusting users.

Chicago courts have a somewhat different approach to user rights. The court has ordered all data of users registered with the site to be disclosed to the authorities. This would then enable prosecutors in Chicago to sue users of vote-auction.com individually for so-called "voter fraud".


[V] Where to go from here

Vote-auction.com is ready to deliver even more services to the vital elections markets. We will keep on focusing on the American elections until mid-November this year. In the meantime we will also finish our redesign and software upgrade in order to get ready for upcoming elections worldwide.


For the Vote-auction.com team:

lizvlx
[V]ote-auction.com


PLEASE NOTE: If you want to access Vote-auction.com via 
web or mail, please be sure to use the correct domain: 

pr@vote-auction.com
http://www.vote-auction.com

We will not be able to receive messages sent to the old address. Thank you.


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[] pr@vote-auction.com	[]
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[] Capitalism & Democracy closer together	[]
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dearZ

http://www.vote-auction.com


CNN dedicated a show for vote-auction, live on the wire, vote-auction.com etoy.HANS over the mobile wire:: enjoy! http://www.cnn.com/video/burden/2000/10/24/show.rm80.ram [a CNN special national/internat. report coming soon!] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

+ CHECK OUT the press.section:

http://www.vote-auction.com/news.htm

CNN, wirednews, WIRED, USA Today, ABC, NBC, FOX, Slate, Washington Post, Industry Standard, AP, CNET, Telepolis, Spiegel Online, Slashdot, ...


various serious legal cases/ prosecutions :: 

:: board of elections chicago
:: california secretary of state
:: board of election nebraska
:: texas attorney general
:: tech crime unit arizona,

...heavy duty stuff! see some docs under:: http://www.vote-auction.com/legal/index.htm 

the domain voteauction.com has been deactivated on orders of some local judge in chicago/illinois; sooo much fun and pressure there!
read more in our attached press.release or under:: http://www.vote-auction.com/pr.htm


our holding-company is specialized on high-risk ventures! 

::.. we invest into / they invest into ..:: 

ubermorgen.com, etoy.com, SILVER SERVER, rtmark.com, skim.com, uptoart.com, etxtreme.org, voortekk.com, rosa.com, dplanet.org, msn.de, micromusic.net, and many more.. 


for ubermorgen.com and the etoy.HOLDING:: 

:: lizvlx [CEO ubermorgen.com]

:: etoy.HANS /net_CALLBOY [CEO vote-auction.com] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "if you don't get help from us, please get help somewhere!" http://www.ubermorgen.com :: shock marketing :: software dev. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

-------------------------------------------------------- 

Vote-auction.com back online

-------------------------------------------------------- 

Berlin, October 22, 2000

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

You can also find this press release at
http://www.vote-auction.com/pr.htm

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

------------------------------------------------------- 


[V] Voteauction.com is dead, long live Vote-auction.com 

The "Leader of the Election Industry", vote-auction.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 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 site worked on a re-design and strategy paper for version 2.0 of the project.


[V] Sue 'em 'til they drop...

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 found it in the public's interest to sue:

. domainbank.com: Domainbank inc., is the registry where 
the original domain "voteauction.com" is registered. It is defendant in named Chicago legal case. 

. silverserver.at: Both SILVER SERVER's president as 
well as of one of the top technical staff are also named defendants in the Chicago legal case. SILVER SERVER is vote-auction.com's internet access provider. 


[V] (Il)legal Battle?

It remains open for discussion how it should be possible that a dns (domain name service) or an access provider could ever be responsible for contents accessible via domains they are providing routing services for. Vote-auction.com sees this as illegal practice in total violation of standards set by ICANN.

We can only interpret domainbank's and SILVER SERVER's name on the list of defendants as a indirect means of repression to force vote-auction.com to go offline. 

Concerning domainbank inc., this strategy seemed to work out for Chicago prosecutors: Because of domain- bank being involved in the legal case, the provider "politely asked" vote-auction.com to provide them with a USD 100,000.00 bond for potential legal costs. Vote-auction.com decided not to comply. Instead, we asked them to transfer our "voteauction.com" domain to another provider. This order was not fulfilled by domainbank, as they had at that time already made a "deal" with Chicago authorites "not to move the domain anywhere", as we were told by one of domain- bank's executives.

Concerning "defendant" SILVER SERVER, we can provide you with a clear statement from their president: 

"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."


[V] Users give full support - despite potential respression 

Lots of users of Vote-auction.com have described their support in various emails. This is another reason why we decided not to wait to get back online until local U.S. legal authorities understand that Vote-auction.com works for and NOT against democracy. We will keep on protecting any data which has been submitted to us by trusting users.

Chicago courts have a somewhat different approach to user rights. The court has ordered all data of users registered with the site to be disclosed to the authorities. This would then enable prosecutors in Chicago to sue users of vote-auction.com individually for so-called "voter fraud".


[V] Where to go from here

Vote-auction.com is ready to deliver even more services to the vital elections markets. We will keep on focusing on the American elections until mid-November this year. In the meantime we will also finish our redesign and software upgrade in order to get ready for upcoming elections worldwide.


For the Vote-auction.com team:

lizvlx
[V]ote-auction.com


PLEASE NOTE: If you want to access Vote-auction.com via 
web or mail, please be sure to use the correct domain: 

pr@vote-auction.com
http://www.vote-auction.com

We will not be able to receive messages sent to the old address. Thank you.


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[] [V]ote-auction.com	[]
[]	[]
[] pr@vote-auction.com	[]
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[] Capitalism & Democracy closer together	[]
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dearZ

http://www.vote-auction.com


CNN dedicated a show for vote-auction, live on the wire, vote-auction.com etoy.HANS over the mobile wire:: enjoy! http://www.cnn.com/video/burden/2000/10/24/show.rm80.ram [a CNN special national/internat. report coming soon!] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

+ CHECK OUT the press.section:

http://www.vote-auction.com/news.htm

CNN, wirednews, WIRED, USA Today, ABC, NBC, FOX, Slate, Washington Post, Industry Standard, AP, CNET, Telepolis, Spiegel Online, Slashdot, ...


various serious legal cases/ prosecutions :: 

:: board of elections chicago
:: california secretary of state
:: board of election nebraska
:: texas attorney general
:: tech crime unit arizona,

...heavy duty stuff! see some docs under:: http://www.vote-auction.com/legal/index.htm 

the domain voteauction.com has been deactivated on orders of some local judge in chicago/illinois; sooo much fun and pressure there!
read more in our attached press.release or under:: http://www.vote-auction.com/pr.htm


our holding-company is specialized on high-risk ventures! 

::.. we invest into / they invest into ..:: 

ubermorgen.com, etoy.com, SILVER SERVER, rtmark.com, skim.com, uptoart.com, etxtreme.org, voortekk.com, rosa.com, dplanet.org, msn.de, micromusic.net, and many more.. 


for ubermorgen.com and the etoy.HOLDING:: 

:: lizvlx [CEO ubermorgen.com]

:: etoy.HANS /net_CALLBOY [CEO vote-auction.com] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "if you don't get help from us, please get help somewhere!" http://www.ubermorgen.com :: shock marketing :: software dev. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

-------------------------------------------------------- 

Vote-auction.com back online

-------------------------------------------------------- 

Berlin, October 22, 2000

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

You can also find this press release at
http://www.vote-auction.com/pr.htm

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

------------------------------------------------------- 


[V] Voteauction.com is dead, long live Vote-auction.com 

The "Leader of the Election Industry", vote-auction.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 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 site worked on a re-design and strategy paper for version 2.0 of the project.


[V] Sue 'em 'til they drop...

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 found it in the public's interest to sue:

. domainbank.com: Domainbank inc., is the registry where 
the original domain "voteauction.com" is registered. It is defendant in named Chicago legal case. 

. silverserver.at: Both SILVER SERVER's president as 
well as of one of the top technical staff are also named defendants in the Chicago legal case. SILVER SERVER is vote-auction.com's internet access provider. 


[V] (Il)legal Battle?

It remains open for discussion how it should be possible that a dns (domain name service) or an access provider could ever be responsible for contents accessible via domains they are providing routing services for. Vote-auction.com sees this as illegal practice in total violation of standards set by ICANN.

We can only interpret domainbank's and SILVER SERVER's name on the list of defendants as a indirect means of repression to force vote-auction.com to go offline. 

Concerning domainbank inc., this strategy seemed to work out for Chicago prosecutors: Because of domain- bank being involved in the legal case, the provider "politely asked" vote-auction.com to provide them with a USD 100,000.00 bond for potential legal costs. Vote-auction.com decided not to comply. Instead, we asked them to transfer our "voteauction.com" domain to another provider. This order was not fulfilled by domainbank, as they had at that time already made a "deal" with Chicago authorites "not to move the domain anywhere", as we were told by one of domain- bank's executives.

Concerning "defendant" SILVER SERVER, we can provide you with a clear statement from their president: 

"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."


[V] Users give full support - despite potential respression 

Lots of users of Vote-auction.com have described their support in various emails. This is another reason why we decided not to wait to get back online until local U.S. legal authorities understand that Vote-auction.com works for and NOT against democracy. We will keep on protecting any data which has been submitted to us by trusting users.

Chicago courts have a somewhat different approach to user rights. The court has ordered all data of users registered with the site to be disclosed to the authorities. This would then enable prosecutors in Chicago to sue users of vote-auction.com individually for so-called "voter fraud".


[V] Where to go from here

Vote-auction.com is ready to deliver even more services to the vital elections markets. We will keep on focusing on the American elections until mid-November this year. In the meantime we will also finish our redesign and software upgrade in order to get ready for upcoming elections worldwide.


For the Vote-auction.com team:

lizvlx
[V]ote-auction.com


PLEASE NOTE: If you want to access Vote-auction.com via 
web or mail, please be sure to use the correct domain: 

pr@vote-auction.com
http://www.vote-auction.com

We will not be able to receive messages sent to the old address. Thank you.


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[] [V]ote-auction.com	[]
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[] pr@vote-auction.com	[]
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[] Capitalism & Democracy closer together	[]
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From: "[V]ote-auction PR" <pr@[62.116.31.68]> Subject: Vote-auction falls victim to ILLEGAL DNS-SHUTDOWN [PRESS RELEASE] 



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Vote-auction falls victim to ILLEGAL DNS-SHUTDOWN 

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Vienna/Berlin, November 2nd, 2000, 7 am CET 

Below you find the latest press release by [V]ote-auction: http://62.116.31.68
http://www.voteauction.at
http://www.voteauction.de

[formerly Vote-auction.com and Voteauction.com]. 

You can also find this press release at
http://62.116.31.68/pr.htm

For any further information feel free to contact pr@[62.116.31.68] or in urgent cases call our ubermorgen.com hotlines:

berlin +49-175-2066954
vienna +43 676 9300061

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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. 

Yesterday, 1st of November 2000, the domain Vote-auction.com got illegally shut down by InterNIC. InterNIC is the central institution located in the U.S. where all domain name service records for the .com/.net/.org are stored. We, and neither our providers have received any notification about this action at all, nor have we been informed of any legal documents which would allow for such a step. Up to this moment, InterNIC is declining comment on the issue.


[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 inter- national law.


[V] What will happen to [V]ote-auction now? 

Our lawyers are currently investigating, as you might imagine. Furthermore, we have discussed the issue with newly-elect ICANN board director Andy Mueller-Maguhn, who commented the issue with "I guess, we will have to do something about this". A colleague of his called it "it is absolutely clear that this is plain outrageous". 

On a more practical level, we are reachable via our IP - our new url is: http://62.116.31.68 

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. Due to our "opponents'" lazy tactics, Vote-auction.com will now definitely be online and reachable to the public on Election Day via several domains and under the IP-Address controlled by a european institution: ripe.net. 

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.


[V] [V]ote-auction is BACK UNDER

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: http://voteauction.enemy.org 

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: http://62.116.31.68

From November, 2nd, the following domains shall be active: http://www.voteauction.at [Austrian domain] http://www.voteauction.de [Germany, thx to think-factory.de] http://www.voteauction.cu [Cuban domain] http://www.voteauction.ru [Russian domain] http://www.vote-auction.net
http://www.vote-auction.org



[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
Our new software has allowed us to verify the numbers which have been in the system so far. We have cleared out all double and fake entries and can now provide you with live, real-time rendered data:
http://62.116.31.68/check.php3

*current no. of sellers: 56.789


[] International polls
In order to showcase the US-presidential election even better, Vote-auction has released several polls for national and international audiences.
Vote-auction intends to involve a worldwide audience by polling their preferences on "Gore-Bush-Nader", a community poll will raise the Question whether Vote-auction.com should be considered "legal or Illegal", and the most important question of all - "Would you rather go voting if you received money for it?". Find the polls at: http://62.116.31.68/index00.htm


[] 1-CLICK-BIDDING function
In order to use our bidding section we have implemented a 1-click-bidding function with user-verification. This will help ensuring the authenticity of the bidders and will secure the bidders' offer. Find the bid-check section: http://62.116.31.68/check.php3


[] ALL NEW MESSAGE-BOARD, heavily crowded Created to stimulate public reaction from the U.S., but also the international audiences, you will now find our message board crowded and full with interesting and controversial discussions:
http://62.116.31.68/forum/


[] Extended PRESS-ARCHIVE, over 200 internat. news-segments Due to the massive response in the media, we have updated our press-section providing you with broad information on how Vote-auction is featured and discussed in the press. Well over 200 e-press-clippings have been discovered by our PR-department:
http://62.116.31.68/news.htm

[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, it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever in California. [...] because you are talking about the corruption of the voting process."

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. We have just received notice of further lawsuits filed in the states of Wisconsin and Missouri by their respective Attorney Generals.


For the Vote-auction team:

lizvlx
[V]ote-auction PR



PLEASE NOTE: If you want to access Vote-auction via web or mail, please be sure to use the correct domain: 

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Vote-auction falls victim to ILLEGAL DNS-SHUTDOWN 

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Vienna/Berlin, November 2nd, 2000, 7 am CET 

Below you find the latest press release by [V]ote-auction: http://62.116.31.68
http://www.voteauction.at
http://www.voteauction.de

[formerly Vote-auction.com and Voteauction.com]. 

You can also find this press release at
http://62.116.31.68/pr.htm

For any further information feel free to contact pr@[62.116.31.68] 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. 

Yesterday, 1st of November 2000, the domain Vote-auction.com got illegally shut down by InterNIC. InterNIC is the central institution located in the U.S. where all domain name service records for the .com/.net/.org are stored. We, and neither our providers have received any notification about this action at all, nor have we been informed of any legal documents which would allow for such a step. Up to this moment, InterNIC is declining comment on the issue.


[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 inter- national law.


[V] What will happen to [V]ote-auction now? 

Our lawyers are currently investigating, as you might imagine. Furthermore, we have discussed the issue with newly-elect ICANN board director Andy Mueller-Maguhn, who commented the issue with "I guess, we will have to do something about this". A colleague of his called it "it is absolutely clear that this is plain outrageous". 

On a more practical level, we are reachable via our IP - our new url is: http://62.116.31.68 

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. Due to our "opponents'" lazy tactics, Vote-auction.com will now definitely be online and reachable to the public on Election Day via several domains and under the IP-Address controlled by a european institution: ripe.net. 

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.


[V] [V]ote-auction is BACK UNDER

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: http://voteauction.enemy.org 

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: http://62.116.31.68

From November, 2nd, the following domains shall be active: http://www.voteauction.at [Austrian domain] http://www.voteauction.de [Germany, thx to think-factory.de] http://www.voteauction.cu [Cuban domain] http://www.voteauction.ru [Russian domain] http://www.vote-auction.net
http://www.vote-auction.org



[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
Our new software has allowed us to verify the numbers which have been in the system so far. We have cleared out all double and fake entries and can now provide you with live, real-time rendered data:
http://62.116.31.68/check.php3

*current no. of sellers: 56.789


[] International polls
In order to showcase the US-presidential election even better, Vote-auction has released several polls for national and international audiences.
Vote-auction intends to involve a worldwide audience by polling their preferences on "Gore-Bush-Nader", a community poll will raise the Question whether Vote-auction.com should be considered "legal or Illegal", and the most important question of all - "Would you rather go voting if you received money for it?". Find the polls at: http://62.116.31.68/index00.htm


[] 1-CLICK-BIDDING function
In order to use our bidding section we have implemented a 1-click-bidding function with user-verification. This will help ensuring the authenticity of the bidders and will secure the bidders' offer. Find the bid-check section: http://62.116.31.68/check.php3


[] ALL NEW MESSAGE-BOARD, heavily crowded Created to stimulate public reaction from the U.S., but also the international audiences, you will now find our message board crowded and full with interesting and controversial discussions:
http://62.116.31.68/forum/


[] Extended PRESS-ARCHIVE, over 200 internat. news-segments Due to the massive response in the media, we have updated our press-section providing you with broad information on how Vote-auction is featured and discussed in the press. Well over 200 e-press-clippings have been discovered by our PR-department:
http://62.116.31.68/news.htm

[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, it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever in California. [...] because you are talking about the corruption of the voting process."

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. We have just received notice of further lawsuits filed in the states of Wisconsin and Missouri by their respective Attorney Generals.


For the Vote-auction team:

lizvlx
[V]ote-auction PR



PLEASE NOTE: If you want to access Vote-auction via web or mail, please be sure to use the correct domain: 

pr@[62.116.31.68]
http://62.116.31.68
http://www.voteauction.at


We will not be able to receive messages sent to any of the old addresses. Thank you.


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To: Potential Voter <7-11@mila.ljudmila.org> From: RTMark <announce0017@rtmark.com>
Subject: [7-11] Corporate vote-buying OK, satire not OK. Does 7-11@mail.ljudmila.org agree? Sender: owner-7-11@mila.ljudmila.org
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November 5, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

VOTEAUCTION SATIRE ILLEGALLY SQUELCHED, WILL RE-OPEN IN HUNDREDS OF PLACES RTMark.com reveals its role, offers cash to the first person who can redirect the domain of a major candidate's website to http://62.116.31.68 

Contact:
Voteauction: mailto:pr@[62.116.31.68]
http://62.116.31.68
Bill Jones: (916) 653-7244
ICANN: mailto:icann@icann.org
Andy Mueller-Maguhn: mailto:andy@ccc.de
Domain Bank: mailto:shemphill@domainbank.net Network Solutions: mailto:cregan@netsol.com RTMark: mailto:voteauction@rtmark.com
http://rtmark.com/voteauction.html
http://rtmark.com/etoynsi.html

Voteauction, the satirical website which bills itself as "the only election platform channelling 'soft money' directly to the democracy consumer," has fallen victim to a heavy-handed and sometimes illegal campaign against free speech by two corporations and several public officials.

On November 1, Network Solutions (the private for-profit corporation in charge of all .com, .net, and .org domains) shut down Vote-auction.com without warning or explanation, shortly after public attacks by the California Secretary of State, and after the Chicago Board of Elections filed an election fraud lawsuit against the domain. Neither the owners nor the service providers received any notification or warning of the shutdown, and Network Solutions has refused to comment on the issue. (See http://rtmark.com/etoynsi.html for an earlier example of illegal and still unexplained acts by the company.)

California Secretary of State Bill Jones seems to have set the stage for this blatant disregard of Constitutional free speech protections by stating last week on CNN that corporate financing of elections is one subject that cannot be discussed: "whether this is a parody... makes absolutely no difference whatsoever in California... because you are talking about the corruption of the voting process." (http://www.cnn.com/video/burden/2000/10/24/show.rm80.ram) 

RTMark sponsored Voteauction.com in June (project VOTE, listed at http://rtmark.com/featured.html#VOTE) precisely because the satirical site helps highlight the ways corporations already effectively purchase votes. As law professor Jamin Raskin said about Voteauction, "...we have now evolved a system in which it's OK for money to buy elections, and yet we somehow cling to the fantasy that there's something deeply immoral about the purchase of an individual vote."
(http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,38559,00.html) 

RTMark and many others believe that if U.S. authorities such as Bill Jones wish to purge the election process of corruption, they should start by preventing corporations from spending unlimited sums on electing particular candidates, not by stopping a satire that highlights the problem. As one commentator wrote, "few would disagree that the problem with money in politics today is the hundreds of millions of dollars at the top, not a few dollars at the bottom. Which is why the short-lived vote sale should be seen less as a serious act of sabotage and more as guerrilla theater." (http://slate.msn.com/netelection/entries/00-08-23_88646.asp) 

Network Solutions' illegal deletion of the Vote-auction.com domain is just the latest blow in a series of actions that have closed the satirical website three times since it opened in August. 

1: In August, Voteauction.com founder James Baumgartner, a graduate student, was told by New York State Board of Elections officials that they would press charges against him; they even implied that he could be guilty of treason, which is punishable by execution. Baumgartner, faced with what amounted to an official state-sponsored death threat, had little choice but to close the site on August 18, at which point RTMark helped transfer the domain to its current Austrian owner, Hans Bernhard, who immediately re-opened Voteauction.com with new features. 

2. On October 21, Domain Bank, the U.S. company with which Voteauction.com had been registered, illegally froze the domain. Bernhard responded by registering Vote-auction.com (with an added hyphen) with a company located outside U.S. jurisdiction.

3: On November 1, to circumvent this approach, Network Solutions, without warning and in clear violation of international law, removed Vote-auction.com from its root servers (the computers that provide domain information to all others). It is unknown who requested this action, and under what authority Network Solutions feels justified in performing it. Andy Mueller-Maguhn, a newly-elected director of ICANN, the non-profit corporation responsible for all internet domains, agreed this was an illegal move and said "I guess we will have to do something about this." 

In response to Network Solution's attack, the Voteauction team has begun gathering Vote-auction and Voteauction domains around the world and is calling on other domain owners to point their domains or sub-domains to http://62.116.31.68, the Voteauction IP (IP addresses are not dependent on domain name registrars or on Internic). If you have a domain or sub-domain that you can point to http://62.116.31.68, please do so and forward the information to mailto:pr@[62.116.31.68] to be added to a list of supporters.

In addition, RTMark has secured a $500 investment, of which $300 will be offered to the first person who can redirect the domain of a major US political candidate (for federal or state office) to http://62.116.31.68. The remaining $200 will be offered to the first person to re-route the domain of a major media outlet covering the elections to the Voteauction IP.


RTMark's primary goal is to publicize corporate subversion of the democratic process. To this end it acts as a clearinghouse for anti-corporate projects.

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Subject: Corporate vote-buying OK, satire not OK. Does hans@ubermorgen.net agree? Sender: announce0029-proxy@rtmark.com

This message is not commercial. Get off our list by writing mailto:remove@rtmark.com?subject=hans@ubermorgen.net. 

November 5, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

VOTEAUCTION SATIRE ILLEGALLY SQUELCHED, WILL RE-OPEN IN HUNDREDS OF PLACES RTMark.com reveals its role, offers cash to the first person who can redirect the domain of a major candidate's website to http://62.116.31.68 

Contact:
Voteauction: mailto:pr@[62.116.31.68]
http://62.116.31.68
Bill Jones: (916) 653-7244
ICANN: mailto:icann@icann.org
Andy Mueller-Maguhn: mailto:andy@ccc.de
Domain Bank: mailto:shemphill@domainbank.net Network Solutions: mailto:cregan@netsol.com RTMark: mailto:voteauction@rtmark.com
http://rtmark.com/voteauction.html
http://rtmark.com/etoynsi.html

Voteauction, the satirical website which bills itself as "the only election platform channelling 'soft money' directly to the democracy consumer," has fallen victim to a heavy-handed and sometimes illegal campaign against free speech by two corporations and several public officials.

On November 1, Network Solutions (the private for-profit corporation in charge of all .com, .net, and .org domains) shut down Vote-auction.com without warning or explanation, shortly after public attacks by the California Secretary of State, and after the Chicago Board of Elections filed an election fraud lawsuit against the domain. Neither the owners nor the service providers received any notification or warning of the shutdown, and Network Solutions has refused to comment on the issue. (See http://rtmark.com/etoynsi.html for an earlier example of illegal and still unexplained acts by the company.)

California Secretary of State Bill Jones seems to have set the stage for this blatant disregard of Constitutional free speech protections by stating last week on CNN that corporate financing of elections is one subject that cannot be discussed: "whether this is a parody... makes absolutely no difference whatsoever in California... because you are talking about the corruption of the voting process." (http://www.cnn.com/video/burden/2000/10/24/show.rm80.ram) 

RTMark sponsored Voteauction.com in June (project VOTE, listed at http://rtmark.com/featured.html#VOTE) precisely because the satirical site helps highlight the ways corporations already effectively purchase votes. As law professor Jamin Raskin said about Voteauction, "...we have now evolved a system in which it's OK for money to buy elections, and yet we somehow cling to the fantasy that there's something deeply immoral about the purchase of an individual vote."
(http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,38559,00.html) 

RTMark and many others believe that if U.S. authorities such as Bill Jones wish to purge the election process of corruption, they should start by preventing corporations from spending unlimited sums on electing particular candidates, not by stopping a satire that highlights the problem. As one commentator wrote, "few would disagree that the problem with money in politics today is the hundreds of millions of dollars at the top, not a few dollars at the bottom. Which is why the short-lived vote sale should be seen less as a serious act of sabotage and more as guerrilla theater." (http://slate.msn.com/netelection/entries/00-08-23_88646.asp) 

Network Solutions' illegal deletion of the Vote-auction.com domain is just the latest blow in a series of actions that have closed the satirical website three times since it opened in August. 

1: In August, Voteauction.com founder James Baumgartner, a graduate student, was told by New York State Board of Elections officials that they would press charges against him; they even implied that he could be guilty of treason, which is punishable by execution. Baumgartner, faced with what amounted to an official state-sponsored death threat, had little choice but to close the site on August 18, at which point RTMark helped transfer the domain to its current Austrian owner, Hans Bernhard, who immediately re-opened Voteauction.com with new features. 

2. On October 21, Domain Bank, the U.S. company with which Voteauction.com had been registered, illegally froze the domain. Bernhard responded by registering Vote-auction.com (with an added hyphen) with a company located outside U.S. jurisdiction.

3: On November 1, to circumvent this approach, Network Solutions, without warning and in clear violation of international law, removed Vote-auction.com from its root servers (the computers that provide domain information to all others). It is unknown who requested this action, and under what authority Network Solutions feels justified in performing it. Andy Mueller-Maguhn, a newly-elected director of ICANN, the non-profit corporation responsible for all internet domains, agreed this was an illegal move and said "I guess we will have to do something about this." 

In response to Network Solution's attack, the Voteauction team has begun gathering Vote-auction and Voteauction domains around the world and is calling on other domain owners to point their domains or sub-domains to http://62.116.31.68, the Voteauction IP (IP addresses are not dependent on domain name registrars or on Internic). If you have a domain or sub-domain that you can point to http://62.116.31.68, please do so and forward the information to mailto:pr@[62.116.31.68] to be added to a list of supporters.

In addition, RTMark has secured a $500 investment, of which $300 will be offered to the first person who can redirect the domain of a major US political candidate (for federal or state office) to http://62.116.31.68. The remaining $200 will be offered to the first person to re-route the domain of a major media outlet covering the elections to the Voteauction IP.


RTMark's primary goal is to publicize corporate subversion of the democratic process. To this end it acts as a clearinghouse for anti-corporate projects.

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From: "PR [V]ote-auction.com" <PR@[62.116.31.68]> Subject: [V]ote-auction announces END-RESULTS :: PRESS-RELEASE 



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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[V]ote-auction announces END-RESULTS of GRAND AUCTION 

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Vienna/Berlin, November 7th, 2000, 5am CET 


Below is the latest press release by [V]ote-auction: 

http://62.116.31.68
http://www.voteauction.de / realname: voteauction [formerly Vote-auction.com and Voteauction.com]. 


You can also find this press release at
http://62.116.31.68/pr.htm

For any further information feel free to contact pr@[62.116.31.68] or in urgent cases call our ubermorgen.com hotlines:

berlin +49-175-2066954
vienna +43 676 9300061

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[V] Intro

[V]ote-auction, the election industry leader, is proud to annnounce the end-results of the grand - or, perhaps more accurately, notorious - [V]ote-auction GAME. 

Many participants acted as if they had actually considered it a real business; in fact, it was indeed a real-life game for voters who finally had found a way to think about what their vote is worth on the free market; and to themselves. 

For us, the operators, it turned out to be less of a action- service and more of a legal rollercoaster. 


[V] Game? Street Theatre? Comic? Business? 

Lots has been said about how to distinguish between a real business and a cartoon in a sunday newspaper:
http://www.cnn.com/video/burden/2000/10/24/show.rm80.ram 

Most of these nice sayings are true for the offline world - but on the net, things are different.

Whether or not one likes it, the net is NOT a commercial playground a priori. It is an open space for ANY communication needs between any people. If you think it is hard to know for sure if our site was a game or a business, well, then that's a good lesson you have learned. Try any web-site and try to check out if they are for "real", here a small test-environment:

http://yesrudy.com
http://gatt.org
http://rtmark.com/gwbush/
http://www.fpo.at
http://www.microsoft.com

There is no last page with cartoons on the net. That is why it is called an interlinked system and not a book. 

You'd better learn the differenciate now! If not, you might fall for a real prank one day!


[V] Who is suing whom?

legal platform coming soon: http://www.ipnic.org < the nic is the content is the user is the net > 

Here an excerpt of the current situation: 

. Massachussetts is suing vote-auction and our providers 
reason: "selling votes"
status: injunction order

. Missouri is suing vote-auction and our providers 
reason: "false promises to consumers"
status: injunction order

. Chicago Board of Elections is suing vote-auction and our providers 
reason: "selling and buying of votes"
status: injunction order

. Various "investigations" by Attorney Generals 
reason: diverse
status: unknown

. [V]ote-auction is suing CORE in switzerland 
reason: breach of contract, damages, denial of service status: preparation

It seems that we are witnessing the birth of a new sub-genre of action-art: DIGITAL LEGAL ART. appearantly it is even not so much the end-user in front of the terminal to whom we appeal most, but the people in U.S. legal offices... very sexy! 

Nevertheless, we are sure that the cases will be dropped, as it will be obvious, even to the legal folk, that there are people out there buying and selling votes - but that it is not us. We just gave you the showcase. The real dealers do their businesses quite openly in Washington. Vive la difference! 


[V] Campaigning for our rights

We would like to thank our partners for giving us the support we need and enjoy. To those who despise us: Thank you also! 

We regard negative and positive feedback alike as active support and intelligent modes of communication. 

To those who think that we have now given up: Come on! We have all had our fun. Now, let's face reality. The net is, at the time, NOT a free place. It is directly and indirectly controlled by U.S. courts of all names. The root zone is basically owned by the U.S. Ministry of Commerce [well, then maybe the Chicago Board of Elections should have sued the Ministry of Commerce].

If they decide to halt the internet tomorrow, then it is Nike time - they just do it! Cynical? No. Realistic. Or should ICANN bring Capitalism and DemoCRAZY closer together? Or maybe even CORE?

So... if you dont get help from us, please get help somewhere! 


[V] What is new on the Site

We have opened our site and data to the public, so everyone can see for him or herself what is happening. Feel free to access the user database - and do not be surprised to find no personal data. Asking for data at the frontdesk does not necessarily imply storing it in the backoffice... 

What you can find is the socio-demographics of everybody who dared to play [V]ote-auction. If you ask yourself if the numbers are real - that is an intelligent question - but has never been answered on the net. Neither can we answer it. 

You will have to be quick to access the site - we will put it into real legal context by November 8th. 

When the game is over, the players have to go home! 



[V] Statistics [Nov. 7th 2000, 3am CET]

[] polls

International poll:	National poll:
63.3% gore	45.0% gore
14.3% bush	44.1% bush
22.4% nader	10.9% nader

Vote-auction legal or illegal:
75.3% legal
09.4% illegal
15.3% dont know

Would you rather go voting if you got paied for it: 70.0% yes
30.0% no


[] Global media quick-stats

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Online-magazines:	898 articles	19%
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TV-segments:	147 reports	03%
Radio-segments:	231 reports	05%
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James Baumgartner
ubermorgen.com
RTMark.com
SILVER SERVER / sil.at
enemy.org
joker.com
hell.com
thinkfactory.de
pixelmassaker.com
cnn.com
etoyACTION.com
ACLU.org

For a list of support web-sites
http://62.116.31.68/news.htm#support


[V] Final note

We wish all 3 candidates the best of luck for Election Day, and may the guy with the best looks - oops, sorry, the best ideas and intentions - win.

Goodbye to you, you have been a great audience! 

For the Vote-auction team

lizvlx	hans_extrem
the-woman-behind	the-guy-who-gets-sued

[V]ote-auction
ăTo be or not to be! Just do it!"



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To: liz@ubermorgen.com, hans@ubermorgen.com From: net_CALLBOY <hans@ubermorgen.com>
Subject: press.release draft/ideas.. v.9b, 12.11.00/ 1340h 

Subject: [V]ote-auction POST-ELECTION? WRAP-UP :: PRESS-RELEASE 


florida
wirednews artikel
telepolis artikel
aclu
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you HAVE
received many blank absentee ballots from american voters expecting payment in return, including 429 from florida voters 

-wto action:

would it be ok to feature the wto/gatt action in salzburg, as activistm of RTMark.com, powered and financed [hehehe[ by [V]ote-auction ?? just an idea.. if you prepare something cool ,, let me know and we leave this out..

- merger announcement with www.ePlanetBizWeb.com 

- possibly announcement of [V]ote-auction mutual 
fund on RTMark.com [depends on speed we can develop the concept and you can implement it]..let me know.. 

- take-over of vote-acution by korean company, they 
registered voteauction.net and .org in august.. hehehe.. Registrant:

Ganada Co. (VOTEAUCTION2-DOM)
#560-5, Pulkwang-Dong, Eunpyung-Gu
Seoul, 122-041
KR
Domain Name: VOTEAUCTION.NET

- feature and build up of political and legal 
platform: ipnic.org , we will have a mailing-list and publication platform for the v-a case and compareable cases.. we working on this currently.. lotza material..


- mirror feature: http://www.a-blast.org/~voteauction/ 

- RELATED SITES:
The site could be named WelfareAuction.com and when it's launched announce the intention to build a vertical network of auction sites:

RoadwayAuction.net for the conversion of municipal streets to private toll roads

WaterAuction.net for water systems and water rights 

EducationAuction.net for schools

PublicParkAuction.net

UtilityAuction.net

Part of the ePlanetBizWeb site is a welfare reform company called Family Privatization Services. This company could be reworked into an online brokering site for welfare families wishing to place (sell) their children into private homes, something like: 

"FPS provides brokering services for welfare recipients who seek to place some or all of their children into the private sector. The FPS Family Exchange is an internet-based Family-to-Family (F2F) marketplace where buyers (private families) and Sellers (welfare families) meet to bid on the placement of children into private homes."

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vienna +43-676-9300061


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Bill Jones: (916) 653-7244
ICANN: mailto:icann@icann.org
Andy Mueller-Maguhn: mailto:andy@ccc.de
Domain Bank: mailto:shemphill@domainbank.net corenic
CSL
RTMark: mailto:voteauction@rtmark.com
http://rtmark.com/voteauction.html

general attorney, state of missouri
general attorney, state of wisconsin
chicago board of election

weitere contacts...


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James Baumgartner
ubermorgen.com
RTMark.com
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enemy.org
joker.com
hell.com
thinkfactory.de
pixelmassaker.com
cnn.com
etoyACTION.com
ACLU.org
a-blast.org


For a list of support web-sites
http://62.116.31.68/news.htm#support


[V] Final note



For the Vote-auction team

lizvlx	hans_extrem
the-woman-behind	the-guy-who-gets-sued

[V]ote-auction
ăTo be or not to be! Just do it!"



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