[arin-ppml] Apology requested from Christopher Mettin and the Gymnasium Querfurt High School

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at ipinc.net
Tue Dec 1 13:22:53 EST 2009


Kyle Banks wrote:
> Ted, 
> Literally laughed out loud at that one... its all fun and games until
> somebody loses an eye.. 
> 

At least that's what Ralphie's mother told him....

Ted

(you have to have seen The Christmas Story to get that one)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> Behalf Of Ted Mittelstaedt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:07 PM
> To: Joe Baptista
> Cc: Christopher Mettin; arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Apology requested from Christopher Mettin and the
> Gymnasium Querfurt High School
> 
> 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
>>
>> By submitting a Global TLD WHOIS query you agree to use this data only 
>> for lawful purposes. Under no circumstances will you use this data to: 
>> (1) Allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass 
>> unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail, 
>> telephone, or facsimile; or: (2) Enable high volume, automated, 
>> electronic processes against the INAIC or its data systems and networks. 
>> The compilation, repackaging, dissemination or other use of this data is 
>> expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of the INAIC. The 
>> INAIC reserves the right to revoke access to the Global TLD WHOIS 
>> Database in its sole discretion, including without limitation, for 
>> excessive querying of the Global TLD WHOIS Database or for failure to 
>> otherwise abide by this policy.
>>
>> TLD Registrants are responsible for the information maintained in the 
>> directory services database.The INAIC does not guarantee the accuracy of 
>> the information maintained in the Global TLD WHOIS Database.
>>
>>
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