WikiLeaks loses US domain
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December 4, 2010, Saturday
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THE whistleblowing website WikiLeaks was forced yesterday to switch over to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch, after a new round of hacker attacks on its system prompted its American domain name provider to withdraw service.
WikiLeaks' United States domain name system provider, EveryDNS, withdrew service to the wikileaks.org name late Thursday, saying it took the action because the new hacker attacks threatened the rest of its network.
"Wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure," a spokesman said.
EveryDNS.net provides access to around 500,000 websites.
On Twitter yesterday, the owner of EveryDNS, Dynamic Network Services, wrote that "trust is paramount: Our users and customers are our most important asset." The tweet did not specify whether it was specifically referring to WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks confirmed the move in a separate tweet, saying "wikileaks.org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks." It was not clear where the alleged attacks were coming from.
WikiLeaks' new domain, wikileaks.ch, is owned by the Swiss Pirate Party, a political group formed two years ago to campaign for freedom of information and sensible technology policy.
Pascal Gloor, the party's vice president, said they registered the domain about six months ago.
"We wanted to show our support for WikiLeaks," he said.
WikiLeaks has previously claimed that intelligence agencies from the US and elsewhere have been targeting its site, which has spilled thousands of US diplomatic cables as well as classified US military documents.
WikiLeaks' United States domain name system provider, EveryDNS, withdrew service to the wikileaks.org name late Thursday, saying it took the action because the new hacker attacks threatened the rest of its network.
"Wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure," a spokesman said.
EveryDNS.net provides access to around 500,000 websites.
On Twitter yesterday, the owner of EveryDNS, Dynamic Network Services, wrote that "trust is paramount: Our users and customers are our most important asset." The tweet did not specify whether it was specifically referring to WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks confirmed the move in a separate tweet, saying "wikileaks.org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks." It was not clear where the alleged attacks were coming from.
WikiLeaks' new domain, wikileaks.ch, is owned by the Swiss Pirate Party, a political group formed two years ago to campaign for freedom of information and sensible technology policy.
Pascal Gloor, the party's vice president, said they registered the domain about six months ago.
"We wanted to show our support for WikiLeaks," he said.
WikiLeaks has previously claimed that intelligence agencies from the US and elsewhere have been targeting its site, which has spilled thousands of US diplomatic cables as well as classified US military documents.
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