77 Days Thomas Bender/Franz Poekler

UPDATE - This is an ARG. See proof below:

According to the Youtube channel, PronunciationBook joined Apr 14, 2010. Just one day later, on April 15th 2010, PronunciationBook.com was registered by a “Thomas Bender”. See WHOIS details here.


The email associated with the domain name registration is franzpoekler@gmail.com. Who is Thomas Bender? Who is Franz Poekler?
After looking up Thomas Bender, we found that this name is attributed as the owner of several other related domain names.

http://reversewhois.domaintools.com/thomas-bender

WhoIs:
        Name:           Thomas Bender
        Phone Number:   (***) ***-**65
        Address:
                        PO Box 726
                        JAF Station
                        New York,  10116
                        US

Domains registered by franzpoekler@gmail.com:
        * http://synydyne.com/
        * http://www.proyectovillanueva.org/
        * http://proyectovillanueva.org/
        * http://www.pronunciationbook.com/
        * http://cashfortimesharesnow.com/ (redirects to http://synydyne.com/)
        * http://thisismymilwaukee.com/ < A website that relates to another ARG

Looking up Franz Poekler, we arrived at a Youtube channel, created on May 27th, 2008: https://www.youtube.com/user/franzpoekler. His Youtube activity
is filled with only four interactions, two of which are likes of PronunciationBook’s videos. This channel is also subscribed to the PronunciationBook channel.

Also a Franz Poekler vimeo: http://vimeo.com/user439030
Every video was deleted between 8:10AM and 8:15AM (unknown what timezone) Sun Jul 14, 2013, hours after the connection with Franz Poekler was revealed.

A Ustream.tv profile was also found for Franz Poekler here. Date joined is March 24, 2009. The location for the profile is “New York, NY” which is consistent with the PO Box used for the registration of Pronunciationbook.com.

More info can be found on this pastebin

Franz Poekler on youtube also liked and favorited this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWP45AGE-o

Franz Poekler is a German rocket scientist in the book Gravity's Rainbow

Thisismymilwaukee.com is registered by “John Bender”, (ie: Thomas Bender) and email address (franzpoekler@gmail.com).

About “Thomas/John Bender”:
After looking into Mr. Bender, we have discovered that this would not be his first ARG. In 2008, Thomas/John also created the “This is My Milwaukee” ARG.  According to Wikipedia, the “This is My Milwaukee” ARG was developed by Synydyne,a company directed by Bender. Synydyne is:
Credited at the bottom of the thisismymilwaukee.com website, and at the end of the Promo Video
Company directed by Thomas Bender.
Other works include Hoopeston, (Hoopeston trailer, by Synydyne) and a number of videos available through Howcast. Synydyne (home, @Vimeo)
Nim Projects (home) (credited to timm.com)

A domain registered by Bender is (synydyne.com).  More information on Bender can be found in this pastebin.




“This is My Milwaukee” ARG Wikis and sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_My_Milwaukee
http://mymilwaukee.wikibruce.com/Home
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=245&sid=139ac9ea41f0ceeb2fcd34fca16c7eb2

More Information/Links:
SynYdyNe.com - Syn Ydy Ne
https://twitter.com/synydyne
http://vimeo.com/synydyne
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0255805/
http://mymilwaukee.wikibruce.com/Synydyne

Other Sources:
http://whois.domaintools.com/pronunciationbook.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/thisismymilwaukee.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/synydyne.com