Wikileaks has been taken down by American Internet Company
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Just the DNS by the looks of things "EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services to the wikileaks.org domain name until 10PM EST, December 2, 2010, when such services were terminated. As with other users of the EveryDNS.net network, this service was provided for free. The termination of services was effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy. See more. More specifically, the services were terminated for violation of the provision which states that "Member shall not interfere with another Member's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services." The interference at issues arises from the fact that wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites. Thus, last night, at approximately 10PM EST, December 1, 2010 a 24 hour termination notification email was sent to the email address associated with the wikileaks.org account. In addition to this email, notices were sent to Wikileaks via Twitter and the chat function available through the wikileaks.org website. Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider." Access by IP all good http://213.251.145.96/[^]
Dylan Morley wrote:
Just the DNS by the looks of things
Yeah, big deal. Now they just have to find another DNS provider, and maybe pay for a service that's capable of handling DDOS attacks. I imagine that, for example, all of the commercial news organizations are hammered by DDOS attacks contantly. I'm surprised they used a free DNS provider in the first place. EveryDNS.net pulling their DNS support for Wikileaks is like my neighbor enabling network security on his wireless access point so I can't sponge off of his broadband service.
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