WikiLeaks Isn’t Down, They Have Just Moved

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Elliotsblog.com is reporting this morning that WikiLeaks.org and .com are both down.

Godaddy.com has appeared to bow to public objection to them benefiting from the typo traffic to the .com.

However the real site, WikiLeaks isn’t down, its just moved.

In the latest round of domain name gamesmanship Wikileaks.org has now moved to a ccTLD and is back up on WikiLeaks.ch.

.Ch is the country code for Switzerland.

Interestingly if you look at your browser once you type in WikiLeaks.ch, the address reverts to just an IP address.

How many times in your life have you gone to a website and seen this as an address of a website?:

http://213.251.145.96

Of course the ccTLD, .Ch is outside of US Jurisdiction and also not subject to seizure.

While the .Org they were using was subject to US Law and we openly questions the other day why the US had not seized that domain.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  4. Dean says

    According to Computerworld mag the site was shut down yesterday because of Joe Leiberman putting pressure on Amazon to not host their site. I believe they are now back with their original servers in Sweden.

  5. The Domaining World At A Glance says

    Assange claims about WikiLeaks cables and UFOs

    “it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs”

    erictric.com/2010/12/03/wikileaks-co-founder-julian-assange-confirms-references-to-ufos-in-leaked-embassy-cable-archive/

  6. permalink says

    too funny. check out the wikipedia page for everydns. wikileaks’ _free dns provider_ was getting hit with a ddos attack that threatened to affect other domains using the service.

    ddos hype -1
    outsourced dns service hype -1
    no hype ip numbers +1

  7. permalink says

    why haven’t the us authorities taken down wikileaks.info? .info is a us-based registry

    the .info site lists a wide assortment of IP addresses for wikileaks

  9. Gazzip says

    Here’s an interview done with him today

    guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks

    ..The guys got big balls but he’ll likely end up in jail or dead in a ditch somewhere.

  11. Dean says

    There is a lot more at stake here than the WikiLeaks site. The pains that most governments are going through to censor this site should tell us something.

    It illustrates just how apathetic people are when the question of freedom of speech or censorship is not addressed in most blog threads. Let’s just sweep all the government corruption, under the rug it will go away, surely as your freedom and property ownership rights does.

  12. permalink says

    this is quite fun to watch, merely from an internet censorship perspective (irrespective of the info at issue, right/wrong, etc.). the censoring parties have had months to prepare for these leaks being released so one would think they’d have a good strategy for shutting down access to the docs. i think we’re seeing just how difficult it truly is to stop people from communicating via internet. e.g. look at the wikipedia entry for wikileaks. wikipedia.com/wiki/talk:wikileaks. it has all the info anyone needs to access the cables: IP’s of the servers and even bittorrents. i bet they’re getting some takedown pressure.

    what i don’t understand is shouldn’t there be a way to authenticate the content of the cables as at least being the ones wikileaks has posted? e.g. sha1 signatures or better. i don’t understand why wikileaks does not at least do that.

  13. Gazzip says

    Assange has handed himself in to UK cops today after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11937110
    .