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."
YES IT WAS (Score:3, Interesting)
BND involved? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:BND involved? (Score:1, Interesting)
Probably related.
What is odd is wikileaks.de losing their domain name in difference to having their ISP cancel a contract. I would suspect the entire set of facts has yet to be laid on the table and would tend to discount the possibility of this being a clerical error on the part of wikileaks.
Nevertheless, we see the homes of wikileaks domain owner being raided among allegations of suspicion over illegal pornography including child pornography, the surrender of the domain name and now an ISP contractual matter, all points indicating a 'full court press' upon wikileaks by the agencies and offices of the German government. Most notably, the BND and perhaps aided by outside influence.
Given documentation that wikileaks hosts pertaining to the BND, none of this should come as surprise nor anything that might happen subsequent.
Re:Update: Why the contract was terminated (Score:4, Interesting)