“nothing less than deceitful” - Judge (Chesley Rafferty + Bradley Norrish + Paul Fox)
An Aussie judge has branded the actions of two internet domain conmen as “nothing less than deceitful” after they sent out 50,000 fake invoices to domain name holders in the UK.
The dodgy invoices from UK Internet Registry were sent out last year after Chesley Rafferty, Bradley Norrish and their three companies had hoovered up the details of thousands of domain name holders following a data mining attack on the .uk WHOIS database.
Nominet victorious in copyright court battle
http://www.nic.uk/News/PressReleases/2004PressReleases/NominetVictoriousInCopyrightCourtBattle.html
Nominet UK v Diverse Internet Pty Ltd [2004] FCA 1244
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2004/1244.html
Pair misled UK companies over domain names (Australian Financial Review)
http://dotau.org/archive/2004-09/0026.html
Nominet wins UK domain scammers case in Australia
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/23/nominet_legal_win/
Nominet wins Australian Court Case Against DataMiners
http://www.audomainnews.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=342
Nominet celebrates copyright case victory
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1158310
Nominet wins data mining case
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=nominetwinsdatami1095945490&area=news
Who is Paul Geoffrey Fox?
According to ASIC he was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1962 (42 years old), lives in Wembley Downs, Western Australia and was director of Diverse Internet Pty Ltd from 12/11/2002 until 12/11/2002.
Nominet UK v Diverse Internet Pty Ltd [2004] FCA 1244 (22 September 2004)
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2004/1244.html
” … Paul Fox of Internet Registrations Worldwide … Mr Rafferty is also a director of a company called Internet Registrations Worldwide Pty Ltd which has its registered office at the same address in Perth as Diverse Internet. He succeeded Mr Norrish as a director of Internet Registrations Worldwide on 27 January 2003 … “
Commissioner wades in over DomainNamesNZ - By Paul Brislen - Oct 2002
http://www.computerworld.co.nz/Reseller/Reseller.nsf/PrintDoc/86256ABD006E93FCCC256C620008A5B4
” … When IDGNet spoke to general manager Paul Fox earlier this week, he denied
any complaint had been laid with the company over its mailing campaign … “