German Wikileaks Suspension Not Related To Police Raid 70
An anonymous reader writes "Contrary to what we discussed four days ago, Germany's registration authority, DeNIC, did not suspend access to wikileaks.de. After some investigation, Heise found out that the ISP ended the contract (in German, Babelfish translation) with Theodor Reppe back in December 2008, with the mandatory three-month notice giving him enough time to move wikileaks.de elsewhere — which he did not do. At the end of March, the domain wikileaks.de was released back to DeNIC."
Hanlon's Razor .... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Heil Hitler to all my German Friends! (Score:1, Informative)
This April 20th, let us all raise our glasses in a hearty "Heil Hitler" and vow to complete his dream, his dream of a purer, cleaner, happier world.
You might wanna rethink that date [wikipedia.org], buddy.
Update: Why the contract was terminated (Score:5, Informative)
Wikileaks has published a new press release [wikileaks.org] about the alleged censorship. After I read the details I fully understand why the contract had been terminated.
In December Reppe tried to transfer bnd.de - the domain of the federal intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst - to his account. To do that he had to assure that he was the rightful owner of bnd.de. The provider stopped the transition and terminated the contract with Reppe with 3 months notice.
Re:Update: Why the contract was terminated (Score:5, Informative)
He then arranged with the hosting company in January to keep the account open until the end of his existing pre-paid term - an agreement that was then broken with no warning when they killed his account and dumped all his domains back to deNIC as originally threatened, and prevented him from moving them to another registrar.
Re:Hanlon's Razor .... (Score:3, Informative)
Accidentally moderated redundant as apposed to insightful, posting to clear.
Just a typical dispute.... (Score:4, Informative)
Hi,
as far as i can see, even Wikileaks doesn't pretend any longer, that the goverment disabled the domain or made the registry do it.
The chain of events was (shortened) the following: Wikileaks published some documents about the BND (german version of the NSA [sort of]). Based on those documents was a discussion, wether the BND did register his domain (bnd.de) correctly. To make a show, the owner of wikileaks.de tried to transfer bnd.de to himself. His service provider got (IMHO not unreasonably) pissed and terminated all contracts. This all happened in december 2008.
End of march 2009 the provider transfered the domains back to the registry since no transfer was initiated from the customer. There is a dispute between the provider and his customer (owner of wikileaks.de) wether the transfer was too early. Most communication between the provider and the owner of wikileaks.de seems to be by phone, so there is little paper trail.
Sory guys, but no sinister conspiracy here :-).
CU, Martin
Re:Hanlon's Razor .... (Score:3, Informative)