Wikileaks' domain down as DNS provider pulls plug2010-12-03 09:25 by DanielaTags: Wikileaks, DDoS
Wikileaks' website has vanished altogether from the internet, following the decision of Everydns.net to terminate support. The California-based company dropped Wikileaks late last night. It says its decision was not related to calls from the US government, but instead to the distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks to which Wikileaks has been subject recently. "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'," says Everydns in a statement. "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." Read more -here-
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