I've now also notified DENIC.de about this issue. I did NOT /complain/ to DENIC about Dr. Schlabeck -- I sent them an expressly "information-only" email, purely to notify them of what's going on (as I think that hundreds of, or a thousand domain names are somewhat unusual). I did not lobby them to take any action whatsoever. See below.

Thanks and regards, Jens Ropers

There are two types of IT techs: The ones who watch soap operas and the ones who watch progress bars. http://www.ropersonline.com/elmo/#108681741955837683

On 11 Aug 2004, at 13:47, Jens Ropers wrote:

Dear Sir/Madam of Denic,

I have recently conducted an extensive investigation into the activities of a person I personally consider a cybersquatter. My investigation was triggered by perceived (by myself and others) infringement of Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) copyrights and interests.

During my investigation, I found out about an extraordinarily large extent of questionable activity within the .de ccTLD.

Because of the large extent of the related issues, I am now emailing you about them. At this time, I am NOT making any claims as regards the legality of the activities in question. I am NOT asking you to take action of whatever sort and I am aware that it may not be within your brief to do anything, even in cases like this. I am merely emailing you on an information-only bases, simply because I feel it might be helpful for you to know of these issues.

On this basis, I would now like to invite and encourage you to read the results of my investigation at:

http://www.ropersonline.com/Area_51/wikipaedia.html The only issue I expect to be of concern to you is the "Gripe #5" item, which I could imagine you to find of great interest. Note that Area 51 is restricted access only. Please log on as follows: user name: ----- password: ----- The clear text password is of course only a modest precaution -- I just don't want to publicly reveal my results at this time (since I don't know whether doing so would put me at risk to get sued).

Please treat this information as Denic confidential and do not pass on the said login details.

Thanks and regards, Jens Ropers

There are two types of IT techs: The ones who watch soap operas and the ones who watch progress bars. http://www.ropersonline.com/elmo/#108681741955837683