The WikiLeakS.org domain name is currently no longer resolving to an IP address.
DynaDot,com, the California USA based Domain Name Registrar, which was successfully defended against interference in Bank Julian Baer court case does still have the WikiLieakS.org domain name registered..
Do remember this core wikileaks.org "brand" Domain Name was, incompetently, allowed to expire in the past. (see WikiLeakS.org domain name expires at Dynadot.com)
However, this Domain Name registration only points to a single, free Domain Name Service provider, EveryDNS.net, which supports lots of free, community based domain names.
They have now decided to protect the thousands of other people who rely on them from the "collateral damage" of Denial of Service attacks aimed at WikiLeakS.org.
WIkiLeakS.org, as usual, did not bother to respond to the termination of service warnings until it was too late.
EveryDNS.net, a provider of free managed DNS services, supports nearly 500,000 websites worldwide.
At 10PM EST, on Wednesday 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, with plentiful advance notice, use another DNS solution.
Yesterday, pursuant to the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy the primary DNS hosted domains were disabled. Today, also in accordance with the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy, the secondary DNS hosted domains, including wikileaks.ch, were disabled.
EveryDNS.net is not taking a position on the content hosted on the wikileaks.org or wikileaks.ch website, it is following established policies. No one EveryDNS.net user has the right to put at risk, yesterday, today or tomorrow, the service that hundreds of thousands of other websites depend on.
As usual, rather than issuing a full press release by email or on a web page, the self important one way broadcast via the Twitter account has been used to state that wikileaks has been under Denial of Service attacks.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/9578593516523520
We are currently under another DDOS attack
Tue Nov 30 12:04:49 UTC 2010
and
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/9609091915718656
DDOS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second.
Tue Nov 30 14:06:00 UTC 2010
However when it come to EveryDNS.net,
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10567274838622208
WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks KEEP US STRONG [...]
Fri Dec 03 05:33:29 +0000 2010
Note the use of the words "killed" and "claimed " and "US".
Instead of some words of thanks or understanding, to an organisation which has supported WikiLeakS.org throughout its lifetime, for free, this Tweet implies that EveryDNS.net are lying about their understandable reasons for dropping wikileaks.org from their DNS name servers.
Is this what you get for supporting the wikileaks technical infrastructure ?
The WikiLeakS.org team have now set up
facilitated by the Swiss Branch of the Pirate Party (http://piratenpartei.ch)
At least this domain name does now have Domain Name Servers from more than one provider, based in two legal jurisdictions (.ch - Switzerland and .net - USA)
They have also modified the set up of
http://wikileaks.nl [46.59.1.2]
and
http://wikileaks.de [88.80.13.160]
which resolves back to one of the original WikiLeakS.org machines in Sweden
These simply now use 301 Permanent Redirects to point to
the http://wikileaks.ch webserver running on the
213.251.145.96 - 213.251.145.111
IP address range allocated to Wikileaks by the Internet Service Provider OVH based in France.
More on this new website in a future blog article.
Why they have not bothered to update their DynaDot.com registration to point to new Domain Name Servers could be due to:
a) Incompetence.
b) A cynical ploy to gather sympathy for being censored.
c) More evidence of an internal rift or lack of communications between different parts of the the wikileaks team.
The Associated Press report
Swiss cut off bank account for WikiLeaks' Assange
The Swiss have always been quite strict on this sort of thing. For "private banking" services you need a lot more than the 31,000 Euros which are apparently in this account.
Why Julian Assange and WikliLeakS.org deluded themselves into thinking that the people working in the Swiss banking system would not remember the Bank Julius Baer case, is a mystery.
The WikilLeakS.ch website no longer lists the Swiss Bank details for the Julian Assange Dense Fund.
There is a more general account at the revived (formerly bankrupt) Icelandic Landesbanki.
The same questions apply: Who has control of this account, who audits its and where is the financial transparency ?
why would pay pal would freeze the bank account an keep all the money they will pay...
EveryDNS.net now seems to be re-directing WikiLeakS.org to mirrors.wikileaks.info.
This is not another mirror of the new style WikiLeakS.ch website, but an archived copy of the previous website wiki articles any working comments or submissions system all without a working SSL/TLS Digital certificate .
There do seem to be at least some, perhaps all, of the original (mostly .pdf) whistleblower leaked documents which had been published, available from this mirror.
This does not include the big "Bradley Manning" disclosures, which never appeared on the main WikiLeakS.org website, but which were published on their own dedicated websites.
wikileaks.org is still being re-directed to mirror.wikileaks.info, which used to be hosted in Switzerland.
Anti-email spam experts Spamhaus have identifies the mirror.wikileaks.info website as being hosted on a suspicious netblock used by Russian cyber criminals.
http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=665
According to this Trend Micro (anti-virus company) discussion thread, this may be a deliberate decision to use "bullet proof" hosting.
http://blog.trendmicro.com/wikileaks-in-a-dangerous-internet-neighborhood/