http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/bindi-website-squatter-abhorrent/2006/10/05/1159641438737.html

If I believed everything I read in newspapers I suppose I'd be shocked. They say that all publicity is good publicity. I'm not so sure.

No good deed goes unpunished is another phrase I frequently like to use. Now that I'm the most hated man in Australia I suppose I'll go have something to eat.

They even used that picture from signgenerator.org

I suppose they'll be happy about the free advertising. To my "fans" currently posting at the board I'd like to correct the notion many people seem to have that I'm profitting from this. ProBoards is a free forum provider.

I'm not anti-jewish by the way. I'm anti-zionist. The invasion and occupation of other countries turns my stomach

Ok, I don't believe everything I read in the press either.

But just for the record, which of the statements made about you and about the site by the SMH are untrue?

Dear Wayne
by all means be as anti whoever you want, but I can't see the point in the re-directing of ruddock.com and the other Israel one to the Bindi site?

I also don't understand why you would make a site, rather than just keep the domain name in your ownership until you can transfer it to the Irwin family.

Would you mind elaborating there ?

Your timely action will udoubtedly make you enemies and friends, I don't really have much feeling about it.

But we can debate 'zionism' anytime :)

If "invasion and occupation" turns your' stomach, one must ask why the hell you live in Australia?

Have we not invaded, and occupied these lands, then engaged in the wholesale destruction of the native culture?
What has happened here is far worse than the tiny sliver of land that is Israel, particularly when there is such a huge amount of Arab land surrounding it, which could be easily shared by the Palestinians so called "Arab brothers".

If you are aboriginal, I apologise, but somehow I doubt you are :P

Stomont,

If "invasion and occupation" turns your' stomach, one must ask why the hell you live in Australia?

Are you equating last centuries colonialism with today's devouring a whole new country by stealth under UN laws?

By the way, taking someone's land or property by force is not called sharing but steeling.

Common sense is not that 'common' anymore.

"But just for the record, which of the statements made about you and about the site by the SMH are untrue?"

That the Irwins were devastated. That I intended to profit from the domain. That I'm anti-jewish. Stuff like that. I emailed the Irwins asking for details on where to transfer the domain to weeks ago.

"I can't see the point in the re-directing of ruddock.com and the other Israel one to the Bindi site?"

I redirected all my domains to it for the extra hits to help drive it up the search engines. The Israel domain doesn't even show up in search engines. In retrospect it was clearly a mistake. The political domains I bought for fun. So far none of the politicians have asked for them.

"If you are aboriginal, I apologise, but somehow I doubt you are :P"

I do have some aboriginal ancestry.

I asked "which of the statements made about you and about the site by the SMH are untrue?"

You replied:

>>That the Irwins were devastated. That I intended to profit from the domain. That I'm anti-jewish. Stuff like that. I emailed the Irwins asking for details on where to transfer the domain to weeks ago.<<

1. There was nothing in the article that described how the Irwins felt, let alone that they were "devastated".

2. There was nothing in the article that accused you of trying to profit from the domain.

3. Similarly, there is nothing in the article that states that you are anti-Jewish.

It seemed to me that the article went out of its way not to draw inferences, but allow people to do this for themselves. Your response suggests that they have only presented the facts, in which case we can all come to our own conclusions as to what they collectively mean.

Did you read pages 2 and 3?

There were 33 articles listed online after the story went from National to International. Sorry if I've mixed up some of the claims. Every one was a rewrite of the original smh piece with a few extra embellishments.

Here's a small sample of them.

Irwin Family Fume Over Unofficial Website
http://www.kget.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=0EA24BDE-6ACB-473D-850A-B64F5C536247
KGET TV 17

Anger Erupts Over Fake Bindi Irwin Website
http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=23224
Entertainment Wise

Man Registers Web Site With Bindi Irwin's Name, Links To Anti-Israel Material
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005095349
All Headline News

Bindi Irwin website squatter 'abhorrent'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3820271a12,00.html
Stuff New Zealand

I was phoned by a Producer from 'A Current Affair' who brought a film crew out and did a story on me. This ridiculous beat up of nothing was just dying away in the press when a Richard Finnila from the Courier Mail decided to add another slant to it yesterday.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20551434-3102,00.html

I've redirected all the political links to this thread which is a reply.

http://projectorion.proboards28.com/index.cgi?board=stories&action=display&thread=1160443025

I don't think I'll ever believe anything I read out of a newspaper ever again.

Yes, I read the entire article, which is why I am able to state categorically that you are absolutely wrong when you accused them of saying "[t]hat the Irwins were devastated. That I intended to profit from the domain. That I'm anti-jewish. Stuff like that."

He doth protest too much, methinks.

This story about nothing has been copied and rewritten to death by unprofessional lowlife hacks. Sorry if I quoted the wrong paper but its been in virtually all of them.

"The Irwin family is reportedly devastated..."
Courier Mail
Page 3
October 6
by Richard Finnila

Go and take a look at http://www.terriirwin.com and you will see what happens to celebrity domain names that are left idle. I don't own it and neither does Terri. I have saved the Irwins a fortune by securing the http://www.bindiirwin.com and freely handing it over. I did this under no pressure and would have been perfectly within my rights to keep it and get fat on advertising revenue. The last line of that stupid SMH article which broke the story actually contradicts itself by stating that John Stainton acknowledged getting an email from me on September offering the domain to Terri for free.

I have never made a cent from the internet in my entire life. So much for innocent until proven guilty. The press can make up any story they like and defame somebody without any repercussions.

That should read that John Stainton acknowledged getting my email offering the domain to Terri for free on september 11. Weeks before this trashy beat up was written. Sorry about that.

To be hated for something you are innocent of is no fun and the press now knows they have made a mistake but refuse to apologise. The editors of these newspapers are cowardly scum and frankly unaustralian for not retracting their libelous bile about me.