Good Evening Chesley,

See below for my responses to your statements.

----Original Message-----
From: Chesley Rafferty
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2006 5:24 PM
To: .au DNS Discussion List
Subject: Re: [DNS] BEWARE: DomainName.com.au "invoices" (Blair Rafferty +
Chesley Rafferty)

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> 1. The companies which are referred to are my brothers
> not mine, I am no longer employed by these companies
> nor do I have any ownership of them.

For clarification my post at domainwatch.org says:

" ... Blair Rafferty's DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd has been sending out
marketing notices ... "

" ... Chesley Rafferty is a previous director ... "

" ... the current company registered office is identical to Chesley
Rafferty's postal address ... "

" ... One of Chesley Raffery's previous companies, Domain Names Australia
Pty Ltd, was found guilty of misleading and deceptive conduct by an
Australian Federal Court ... "

" ... Chesley Rafferty is now bankrupt ... "

If any statements of these statements or any other information on the
domainwatch.org web site are factually incorrect then I will consider
requests to correct factual errors if accompanied by reasonable proof of the
error(s).

> 2. An anonymous quote (on website run by a person that
> clearly is obsessed with me and anyone related to me)
> stating a domain wasn't registered or mp3 player sent
> is not proof of anything - let alone fraud.

The quote was made on April 12, 2006 by Alison Stone
(www.milduratours.com.au), see:
http://domainwatch.org/archives/2004/04/29/how-to-complain-about-billing-sca
ms/#comment-4690

The domain name "milduratours.com" is not currently registered.

Maybe this post will prompt DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd (Blair Rafferty) to
fulfil Alison's 4+ week old order and post out the "FREE" MP3 player.  If
these activities occur then I will let the list know and update the
domainwatch.org web site.

Regarding your suggestion of an obsession with you - please don't flatter
yourself.

It is the type of behaviour and it's affect on domain name registrants that
is of interest to me - not the personalities.  I have been consistent with
my approach to this kind of behaviour long before you arrived on the scene.
It is also my belief that past behaviour is usually the best predictor of
future behaviour.

> 3. Neither my brother nor any of his companies have
> ever been found to have broken any laws - so any
> statements you make to contrary are most likely
> slanderous and defamatory.

I did not say that Blair Rafferty or his companies had broken any laws.  I
have simply reported the perceptions of recipients of the marketing notices.

For clarification my post at domainwatch.org says:

" ... Blair Rafferty's DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd has been sending out
marketing notices which look like invoices - according to recipients ... "

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> 6. All of you in the Aust Domain industry are scared
> of any kind of competition, like most Aust industries
> prefer monolopys, duopolys and cartels.

I believe that competition in the .au domain industry is very important.

Misleading and deceptive conduct - which you and your company (Domain Names
Australia Pty Ltd) were found guilty of by an Australian Federal Court - has
no place in the .au domain industry.

> At least Ron Stark had the intelligence to mention
> that the letters as he put it 'fall into the category
> of "not illegal"' - maybe Phil and James could try to
> move up from a 6 year old reading and thinking level.

For clarification my post at domainwatch.org says:

" ... Blair Rafferty's DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd has been sending out
marketing notices which look like invoices - according to recipients ... "

Regards


Josh
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http://josh.id.au/