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It is called cybersquatting.
people registering domains with an obvious interest to certain third parties, to then later ask exthortionally ridiculous prices to sell it back.
In some countries it can get you in trouble if it turns out you make (or try to) a nice buck that way.
He also registered badastronomer.com (cfr. Phil Plaitt's badastronoMY.com) and some other stuff.
Best to just ignore this kind of thing.
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It is not simply cybersquatting.
"Universe Daily" is the spammer/porn-spammer/hacker and all-around internet thug Wayne Smith AKA ProjectOrion, PO, NuclearSpace, etc.
This is his Global Banning from the entire ezBoard network:
http://p216.ezboard.com/uprojectorion.bannedPage
Dr. Zubrin, you have unfortunately somehow pissed him off and he will begin his usual malignant abusive campaign against you.
He will begin impersonating you around the web with that phony link in his postings.
As he implies in his posts above, he is on first-name basis with you. This is Wayne at another board:
" The Mars Society interviewed me last year for their radio show. I've written articles for SpaceDaily.com and other magazines. I've discussed Orion with the likes of Robert Zubrin and Jerry Pournelle. I'm doing all I can but I'm only one man. It's important to stamp out ignorance too. I know I can't persuade you that Orion makes sense as you are obviously too proud to admit being wrong."
At another forum, Wayne is "Nuclearspace" at the beginning post, and at the end post he is pretending to be the science fact and fiction writer Dr. Jerry Pournelle with links going back to his hacker sites:
http://www.netalive.org/topics/2312?find=2312#2312
Wayne will variously link back to one of his websites (where he is rather revealingly using the handle "sock puppet") or to a phish site that will trap users's passwords, or to a porn site. He rotates between various targets.
As he has done to people like Phil Plait, the famous Bad Astronomer, he will begin corrupting your entry in the Wikipedia.
Here is where Wayne Smith (ProjectOrion or PO) is using the New Mars Forum to attack Phil Plait:
http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic … 0144#80144
Another of Wayne's targets is Fraser Cain, of the excellent Universe Today website and forum:
http://www.universetoday.com/
Here Wayne (as the user "Universe Today" and with a bogus link) is using the New Mars forum to subvert Cain's site:
http://www.newmars.com/forums/search.ph … ults=posts
Wayne has a buttload of bogus IDs at New Mars designed to damage his enemies. It is one of the few sites that allow him to post. Most boards block him and his IP addresses.
Many people have learned that ignoring him is the worst thing to do. I advise contacting Australian authorities, and getting your lawyer on him.
A nice overview of some of Wayne Smith's malicious nonsense:
http://www.everything-science.com/index … 5#msg54725
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BTW...
that new poster:
Richard Branson
http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4727
is probably Wayne Smith.
The first post is simply a cut and pastes of the Wikipedia entries.
I suggest that the moderators check and see if the posts come from Australia.
Branson is one of the people that Wayne is creating sock puppets of:
http://projectorion.proboards28.com/index.cgi
Look under Branson's picture. A tiny smattering of Wayne's phony web sites are listed there and Branson's was included til yesterday.
edit: I just found it in the Google Cache:
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:oSY … =clnk&cd=1
If the poster IS Branson, then he needs to be on the lookout for Wayne's sock puppets.
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Thanks for the heads-up, Yale, should've thought about that myself...:oops:
users: Univers Daily, Richard Branson and Robert Zubrin share the same I.P., resolving to bandersnatch.slq.qld.gov.au
'Dear' Wayne indeed. :evil:
Topic locked, I'll refer this to Josh. Meanwhile I strongly advice against clicking any of this guy's links, it wouldn't be the first time he redirects to malware (that's viruses for the non computer whizzkids)
I vote for a ban. Impersonating people like that... Sheesh.
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Why can't this guy leave us alone? Thanks for the heads up guys. Rxke, you can delete this thread if you want, his nicks and his IP are now banned. I trust Yales because he's been right about this before. Thanks Yales.
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