Appearance of RSF details on Provisional website queried

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Monday May 31, 2004 00:04

by Ailín Mac Giolla Bhuidhe - Dublin Republican Sinn Féin

RSF_Tallaght at hotmail dot com

223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1

The appearance of Republican Sinn Féin literature on the offical website of the Provisional movement has been queried by Republican Sinn Féin Tallaght today

The page in question (http://sinnfein.org/indexr.html) contains pictures of our President Ruairí Ó Bradaigh and Vice Presidents Des Long and Des Dalton along with a brief description of our party principles lifted straight from our own website. It has been only recently published as it features a photograph of our local Conamara election candidate Tomás Ó Curraoin taken immediately after his nomination was accepted on May 15th last. Hidden keywords such as "RSF and Ruairi O Bradaigh" have been included on the page in an attempt fool web users into thinking they are clicking on the official RSF website.

The page also states that "Supporters can keep current (sic) on the various RSF campaigns by joining the internet mailing list above." However subscribing to this mailing list results in people receiving statements from the Provisionals and not RSF. A donation is also requested to sign up to the mailing list. Republican Sinn Féin already publishes its own free mailing list which can be found at saoirse.rr.nu We would have to ask what the motives behind this whole page are because it seems to be a sinister attempt to confuse our own supporters into thinking they are supporting RSF when of course they are not. We are now calling on the Provisionals to remove the page from their site immediately and to refrain from using our name in the future.

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SFABU

by rusticus

Tue Jun 01, 2004 20:19

Very good!

rsf website

by sfabu

Tue Jun 01, 2004 16:50

the rsf/cira website can be found on the following urls;

www.ak47sforhire.limerick.com

www.armchairgenerals.com

www.dundalkdrugdealersprotection.net

alternatively you can vote sinn fein for the real republican choice.

an phoblacht abu.

whois is even more confusing

by seedot

Mon May 31, 2004 17:57

Here's the result of a whois search - points back to SF??

This has been around since Sept. last year at least - any more details?

one more - Danny Morrison has a bit, including a Sunday Times article.

http://www.dannymorrison.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-2316.html

Server Used: [ whois.pir.org ]

sinnfein.org = [ 209.197.84.76 ]
Domain ID: D1828351-LROR
Domain Name: SINNFEIN.ORG
Created On: 05-May-1998 04: 00: 00 UTC
Last Updated On: 23-Sep-2003 17: 40: 07 UTC
Expiration Date: 04-May-2005 04: 00: 00 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar: R63-LROR
Status: CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status: CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID: 27408114-NSI
Registrant Name: Fergus O'Dea (d.b.a. IRLnet &
Registrant Organization: Fergus O'Dea (d.b.a. IRLnet &
Registrant Street1: PO Box 160
Registrant City: Galway
Registrant Postal Code: 1
Registrant Country: IE
Registrant Email: admin@IRLNET.COM
Admin ID: 35644208-NSI
Admin Name: Sinn Fein
Admin Organization: Sinn Fein
Admin Street1: 44 Parnell Sq.
Admin City: Dublin
Admin Postal Code: 1
Admin Country: IE
Admin Email: sfpress@eircom.net
Tech ID: 5358805-NSI
Tech Name: Network Solutions LLC.
Tech Organization: Network Solutions LLC.
Tech Street1: 13200 Woodland Park Drive
Tech City: Herndon
Tech State/Province: VA
Tech Postal Code: 20171-3025
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: 1.18886429675
Tech Email: customerservice@networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS0.NS0.COM
Name Server: NS9.PAIR.COM

Sinn Féin Response to bogus site

by Sinn Féin webmaster - Sinn Féin

Mon May 31, 2004 17:01

webmaster at sinnfein dot ie

www.sinnfein.org is not owned or operated by Sinn Féin and has no connection whatsoever with the party.

The individual who currently controls this domain is facing legal action from Sinn Féin. He is using it soley for his own personal gain and has refused Sinn Féin's request to stop.

The only Sinn Féin site is sinnfein.ie or sinnfein.net.

The email news service that this man is peddling has no connection with Sinn Féin. Again, he is using it for his own personal gain and has refused Sinn Féin's request to stop.

The only Sinn Féin email news service is Irish Republican Media located at www.irishrepublicanmedia.com.

Well

by thesaurus

Mon May 31, 2004 09:54

If RSF insist on using another party's name in their title, what can they expect.

BTW, why would SF be trying to entice any of your 100 or so supporters away?

Took long enough o get rid of them!!

IRA google bombing

by discontinuity ra

Mon May 31, 2004 02:29

type 'republican sinn fein' into google and this fake website comes up as 11th in google rankings....

http://www.google.com/search?q=republican+sinn+fein&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&start=10&sa=N

so the deception works.

Proper URL

by Ailín

Mon May 31, 2004 00:11

http://sinnfein.org/indexr.html

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