Questions For Netfleet

Given the recent telemarketer incident – and other matters that flowed from that – there are still a lot of unanswered questions which I believe Netfleet need to address.

Jonathan Gleeson gave me his committment on Thursday that he intended to answer them all.

So to assist matters, I’m going to list below all questions that I can think of. If there are any that I have missed, please add them in the comments section below, then I will consolidate them into this list.

Jonathan can then answer them in one central place (if he still chooses to).

Questions

1. How many telemarketers do you employ?
2. Who trained them – and continues to train them?
3. What information do they have access to?
4. Does David Lye act as a telemarketer for Netfleet? If yes, how long has he been doing so?
5. You say that Publishing Australia (P.A) has no access to the “back end” or other data – yet are you aware that Mark Lye (as a Director of NetAlliance) holds a 1/3 share in P.A?
6. Given all this, do you now see how a “fair minded person” could easily maintain that there is a conflict of interest between the Lye Brothers / Publishing Australia and the clients of Netfleet?
7. Are you aware that Netfleet had a private bid data leak via an old RSS feed which allowed some parties to see blind bids others had placed for the better part of a year?
8. What is the extent and background of the “legacy way” – who could have had access, do you have log files showing access and when, how long has it been accessible?
9. Will you consent to an independent examination of log files and telemarketing records going back at least 4 months? Ditto the RSS feed?
10. Are you aware that Netfleet has a history of threatening clients with bans if they disclose or report on security issues and privacy breaches?
11. Who do you report to? Can Mark Lye still instruct you to act in a certain way? Does David Lye “suggest” things to you?
12. Why have you further reduced the transparency of your blind bidding system on expired auctions?
13. How many domains have been acquired (via Netfleet) using “inside information” for Publishing Australia, Mark & David Lye and any other entities or people related or “technically unrelated” to them? Not just talking “expired auctions” either – I refer to your whole marketplace.
14. Do you intend to address possible compensation claims for clients that may have been “gazumped” – or alternatively who were forced into bidding higher due to fears of potential insider trading?
15. What do the two Melbourne IT Directors of NetAlliance Pty Ltd (Netfleet) say about past conduct?
16. Do they condone the abusive text that their fellow Director sent me? As General Manager, do you condone it?

Any other questions I should add to the list?