Crime Website Offline
Internet users trying to access the controversial website last night, hosted at http://www.crimexposouthafrica.co.za/ , were greeted with the message “Directory Listing Denied”. This morning the website was still offline.
Neil Watson, founder of the Crime Expo South Africa website, initially selected the domain name http://www.crimebarometersouthafrica.co.za/ for his site, but according to Watson sabotage attempts prompted him to opt for the ‘crimexposouthafrica’ domain instead.
Watson in an EP Herald report has also accused a Cape info tourist website of registering "all related crime expo and crime barometer domains, in an attempt to confuse the public".
The http://www.crimebarometersouthafrica.co.za/ domain has since become the home of RealSouthAfrica.co.za, a website started by Pieter Boshoff. Boshoff is attempting to counteract CrimeExpo SA’s aim of warning the outside world about local crime and in the process discouraging tourists from visiting South Africa.
Boshoff states on his website that he recognizes the problem of crime, but that he disagrees with the methods used by Watson.
The domain name http://www.crimeexposouthafrica.co.za/ was also registered by Boshoff and points to his RealSouthAfrica website.
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