WikiLeaks, Banned By U.S.-based Domain Provider, Moves To Switzerland
WikiLeaks is under hard attack from all directions after publishing a few days ago some 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables that created a real international turmoil, placing the United States in a very delicate spot.
Yesterday, Internet retailer Amazon.com announced it had banned the whistleblower site from its servers causing many people to drop almost immediately their contact with Amazon and call for boycott of the site.
Now, it was the turn of the website domain provider EveryDNS.net to ban the controversial site causing it to shut down.
It was only for a few hours though, because on the Twitter page the editors of the site announced by 4 p.m. ET that WikiLeaks has moved out of the United States to Switzerland, where a company was employed and the site is back up.
EveryDNS.net offered as excuse for the decision they made the fact that the site had come under attack of various dangerous cyber viruses.
On the website of the provider it was posted a statement that says that EveryDNS.net has provided wikileaks.org domain name until December 2, 2010, 10 p.m. ET, when “the services were terminated.”
The post states that WikiLeaks was “punished” for infringing the provision in the terms of agreement that states that “member shall not interfere with another member’s use and enjoyment of service.”
By being attacked by numerous viruses, WikiLeaks placed the infrastructure of EveryDNS.net, which enables access to 500,000 users, in serious danger.
WikiLeaks lamented the decision made by the American-based provider company but added that this decision keeps the company strong.
