[arin-ppml] Apology requested from Christopher Mettin and the Gymnasium Querfurt High School
Ted Mittelstaedt
tedm at ipinc.net
Tue Dec 1 13:07:21 EST 2009
Joe and Christopher,
It was only fun to watch until you guys started breaking the furniture.
Ted
Joe Baptista wrote:
>
> Dear Christopher and ARIN community:
>
> I am requesting a public apology from you Christopher Mettin and your
> organization the Gymnasium Querfurt High School for calling me an
> Internet terrorist, a liar and other libelous, slanderous and defamatory
> statements made by you in a public forum against me.
>
> Also Christopher please do not jump the gun and make this decision on
> your own. Kindly consult your supervisor and principle with respect to
> my request and take the time to show them my request as well as the
> statements made by you on behalf of your school against me.
>
> For the record I will now respond to the allegations made against me by
> Mr. Mettin.
>
> 1) I am not an "Internet terrorist". This claim by Mr. Mettin below is
> not only false but seriously libelous, slanderous and defamatory.
>
> 2) I was never an employee of the Public-Root. I was a consultant since
> 2003. And I was not fired. I walked out along with other consultants
> because of the criminal activity uncovered by me - being mainly the
> embezzlement of funds, money laundering and tax evasion by senior
> executive staff.
>
> 3) I never attacked Christopher's Gymnasium Querfurt High School. This
> claim is also false, libelous, slanderous and defamatory. I did attempt
> to email senior staff and also called by phone but was unable to get in
> touch with anyone except Mr. Mettin. I therefore have no idea if school
> staff know what Mr. Mettin is up to as I have been unable to contact a
> responsible adult at the school.
>
> 4) Mr. Mettin's claims that the PublicRoot Consortium does not exist are
> false. The PublicRoot Consortium is organized as an unincorporated trust
> in Canada.
>
> 5) Mr. Mettin's claims below that his schools only involvement with the
> people who run the INAIC.com web site was to be "assigned a (top-level)
> domain by a company affiliated with the Public Root Ltd." is false. The
> top-level domain the Gymnasium Querfurt High School purchased from them
> is GQNET - a copy of the whois for this domain is attached at the end of
> this message as Appendix A.
>
> But as members here have pointed out Mr. Mettin's forgot to mention that
> the Gymnasium Querfurt High School also sells TLDs for these shell
> companies and non existent organizations.
>
> 6) Mr. Mettin's claims that my actions resulted in the shut down of a
> company are partially true. My actions resulted in the business failure
> of at least three companies and the investigation of a number of
> individuals for criminal acts being tax evasion and money laundering.
> Some individuals involved in these investigations have settled with the
> Dutch tax authorities.
>
> We also had the full support of the Turkish Government and SITA, as well
> as a number of other influential people, organization and countries.
> That support evaporated when I when public and blew the whistle.
>
> As a result of my actions fewer people ended up loosing their money in
> this scam which was my intention.
>
> 7) Mr. Mettin's claims that I lie are also false, libelous, slanderous
> and defamatory.
>
> regards
> joe baptista
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Christopher Mettin
> <cmettin at gqbc-online.com <mailto:cmettin at gqbc-online.com>> wrote:
>
> ARIN Community,
>
> The following message was sent recently to the ARIN mailing list by an
> Internet terrorist known as Joe Baptista.
>
> >OK - before someone end up donating addresses and gets involved in
> a fraud
> - I think it's time for a little >backgrounder on Christopher Mettin.
> >
> >http://bit.ly/87Yjir
> >
> >What Chris needs are a few blocks of /24 to setup a root system
> based on
> what I know of him. Thats what I think >he is going on about - that they
> need fixed IP. About the only protocol widely used still requiring
> fixed IP
> >for the root cache.
> >
> >Be careful I have been unable to confirm what he is doing is even
> authorized by the school. If you feel so >inclined to provide /24
> blocks to
> them - make sure a responsible adult from the school signs on the dotted
> >line, takes responsibility and absolves you of any legal liability.
> >
> >I do however support his initial point. These are only numbers and
> ARIN
> RIPE APNIC et. al. are making a killing >for just providing a database
> function - the rest as far as I can see is mainly hype and make work
> projects. I >think thats been mentioned before.
>
> A few months ago my school has been attacked by this guy. He did already
> make an entire company shut down. His best weapons are lies.
>
> All that started when he was fired by the Public Root in 2005. We
> have been
> assigned a domain by a company affiliated with the Public Root Ltd.
> and so
> we became a major target to him. He sends his emails from a domain
> publishing a website of a "PublicRoot Consortium" which does not
> exist. The
> contact address of this consortium is a private home in an Ontarian
> suburb.
> Sending emails using this domain he tries to make people believe he
> is an
> official employee of the Public Root.
>
> The IP addresses shall be in no way used with any root system.
>
> For further reference on Joe Baptista, see
> http://inaic.com/index.php?p=news-25-08-2008.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Christopher Mettin
> Gymnasium Querfurt High School
>
>
>
> APPENDIX A: whois -h whois.inaic.net <http://whois.inaic.net> GQNET
>
> Corporate TLD (cTLD): .GQNET
> TLD Status: Active
> TLD Register Date: 13-05-2009
> TLD Updated: 29-05-2009
> TLD Expire Date: 13-05-2010
> Preferred Domain Name Registry: GQnet ( http://gqbc-online.com )
>
> TLD Registrant:
> Name: Christopher Mettin
> Company name: Gymnasium Querfurt High School
> Address: An der Geistpromenade 29
> City: Quefurt
> State:
> Zip: 06268
> Country: Germany
> Phone: +49.347.712.2226
> Cell phone:
> Fax: +49.347.712.8826
> Email: cmettin at gqbc-online.com <mailto:cmettin at gqbc-online.com>
>
> TLD Administrative contact:
> Name: Christopher Mettin
> Company name: Gymnasium Querfurt High School
> Address: An der Geistpromenade 29
> City: Quefurt
> State:
> Zip: 06268
> Country: Germany
> Phone: +49.347.712.2226
> Cell phone:
> Fax: +49.347.712.8826
> Email: cmettin at gqbc-online.com <mailto:cmettin at gqbc-online.com>
>
> TLD Technical contact:
> Name: Christopher Mettin
> Company name: Gymnasium Querfurt High School
> Address: An der Geistpromenade 29
> City: Quefurt
> State:
> Zip: 06268
> Country: Germany
> Phone: +49.347.712.2226
> Cell phone:
> Fax: +49.347.712.8826
> Email: cmettin at gqbc-online.com <mailto:cmettin at gqbc-online.com>
>
> TLD Billing contact:
> Name: Christopher Mettin
> Company name: Gymnasium Querfurt High School
> Address: An der Geistpromenade 29
> City: Quefurt
> State:
> Zip: 06268
> Country: Germany
> Phone: +49.347.712.2226
> Cell phone:
> Fax: +49.347.712.8826
> Email: cmettin at gqbc-online.com <mailto:cmettin at gqbc-online.com>
>
> TLD Servers:
> TLD Server1: tld1.public-root.net <http://tld1.public-root.net> -
> IPV4: 84.22.100.6
> TLD Server2: tld2.public-root.net <http://tld2.public-root.net> -
> IPV4: 57.67.193.188
> TLD Server3: tld3.public-root.net <http://tld3.public-root.net> -
> IPV4: 199.5.156.122
>
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