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17-04-00 news EXCLUSIVE
Bertie Ahern (.com) Internet saga moves to the next level...

A lack of Government security has lead to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's Internet domain name been attacked again by Internet cyber-squatters.

The cyber-squatters who are Irish now look set to hold the Government to ransom yet again in the upcoming weeks after buying a variation of the Taoiseach's name for use on the Internet...

An Irish media based Internet company ShowbizIreland.com discovered the group of Irish cyber-squatters who have bought:

"The only reason someone would have bought these names is to sell them back to the Government. The same way the Americans bought bertieahern.com and directed it to a pornographic website," said Raymond Senior a web consultant for ShowbizIreland.com.

"Domain names are worth money and after the bertieahern.com site was offered to the Government for $1m and directed to a pornographic site someone in the Government should have bought all the variations of the Taoiseach's name so that the same thing would not happen again. This is standard practice in the web business."

Last week the Taoiseach lashed out in the Dail at the cyber-squatters who have offered his Internet domain name back to him and away from the pornographic website for a $1m.

In a bizarre opportunist way someone in Tullamore, Co Offaly has bought the web name Celia Ahern (celiaahern.com) just in case the Taoiseach and his girlfriend Celia Larkin tie the knot in the near future.