WikiLeaks Moves To Swiss Domain After DNS Takedown 488
An anonymous reader writes "Netcraft posted two reports on the movement of the WikiLeaks website today. First the site was taken down by EveryDNS, who terminated the DNS provision for wikileaks.org. A few hours later, WikiLeaks moved to a Swiss domain (wikileaks.ch). Netcraft suggests this move could be because the wikileaks.org domain was registered with a US company, which could be influenced by the US government. The new wikileaks.ch site is hosted in Sweden, but redirects all of its traffic to France. Strangely, WikiLeaks has chosen to use EveryDNS again for their new domain."
This follows Amazon's removal of WikiLeaks from their cloud hosting, which has the EFF and others worrying about free speech on the net as various hosting providers receive political pressure to censor certain content. Amazon claims their decision wasn't influenced by a government inquiry, while Tableau Software freely admits that a public request from Senator Joe Lieberman prompted them to take down WikiLeaks data visualizations.
Ch Ch Ch Changes (Score:5, Informative)
"WIKILEAKS: Free speech has a number: http://88.80.13.160/ [88.80.13.160] [88.80.13.160] "
Wikileaks.ch ch ch changes!
Netcraft may have confirmed it, but (Score:5, Informative)
EveryDNS already said [pcworld.com] that their DNS servers were getting DDoSed, and so they found it a better move to drop one customer and their baggage for the sake of their other thousands of customers.
p2p (Score:3, Informative)
futile... http://thepiratebay.org/search/wikileaks/0/7/0
No, they didn't (Score:5, Informative)
Playing victim (DNS A recs still working) (Score:5, Informative)
put in your /etc/hosts:
46.59.1.2 wikileaks.org
91.194.60.112 cablegate.wikileaks.org
91.194.60.112 cables.wikileaks.org
source: google robtex
also, no ddos attacks (supposedly over 10gbps) were ever confirmed by their upstreams (bahnhof/ovh).
either they're obstructed by their current registrar to change their root zone dns or just playing victim.
well done, assange, sir.
Time for a US samizdat? (Score:5, Informative)
Joe Lieberman's basic mindset appears to be that the public should know only what the US government wants us to know. He's hardly alone in this - people who want to control access to information want to control thought. However, this gives him and people like him about as much credibility as the Iraqi Information Minister.
And of course, it's an anathema to democracy, but that never stopped Joe before. I should also mention that given who his financial backers are, you might as well call him the senator for Israel, not the senator for Connecticut (To be clear, I treat corporate-sponsored senators much the same way, for instance "Bob Dole (R-ADM)").
Re:No need for DNS anymore (Score:4, Informative)
As I stated on my recent tweet: "Do we really need DNS afterwards? Give me an IP and I'll give them a shortened URL through Social Nets" - http://twitter.com/#!/brunoborges/statuses/10682824059256832 [twitter.com] I don't think DNS is needed anymore, at least for websites. With the advent of URL shorteners, we all can publish websites online, without DNS, and through Social Networks show it to the world, easily through some link like http://bit.ly/myFooWebsite [bit.ly]. DNS is, IMO, the last hope for Internet control. I have no idea how E-Mail or other protocols could deal with an Internet without DNS, but surely there's a way. Maybe, not invented yet.
WikiLeaks will never be shut down http://bit.ly/WiKiLeaks [bit.ly]
Live Q&A with Julian Assange happening NOW (Score:4, Informative)
Re:What next in the arms race? No Google results? (Score:2, Informative)
Google News is already censoring certain websites (like infowars) that it doesn't like - upto last week Infowars was part of the daily G-News summary but not anymore. And on their youtube site Google is yanking videos "because criticizing the president violates community standards" or "video of US soldiers killing journalists/children is not acceptable". It's censorship. There's no other words for it.
:-|
How much does it cost to set-up my own Web Hosting Engine? I'd gladly host wikileaks regardless of pressure placed on me by Presidents Bush or Obama or Cheney.
I switched my default search engine to Yahoo. I'm boycotting MS Bing and Google.
demonoid (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Bread, circusses and home owners (Score:4, Informative)
There's a Congressional speech from Bernie Sanders [youtube.com] about this very thing... worth watching, IMO.
Re:What free speech? (Score:2, Informative)
Amazon has been megatrolled (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Amazon has been megatrolled (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Bread, circusses and home owners (Score:2, Informative)
The slashdot ideological brigade is, and has been ever since the site was founded, been solidly, rabidly, and fanatically anti-tax, anti-poor, pro-rich libertarian.
Re:What next in the arms race? No Google results? (Score:4, Informative)
Yahoo! search is now Bing. You're going to have to find someone else.
Infowars isn't being censored that I can see, either. It's very difficult to get into Google News, and top-tier providers bounce in and out all the time.
As for censorship, Youtube isn't stopping anyone from talking about the issues, only from showing graphic violence. Private site, their policies. It's not hard to start your own site and do it yourself - but it is slightly hard than just whining about it.
Re:First leak! (Score:1, Informative)
What does everyone suggest that they would do? Of course they will have to get the one that causes trouble for so many other customers. anyDNS was also being tolerable about it - they told wikileaks they will cease the service for them after 24 hours. During that time all it would had taken from Wikileaks was to change their nameserver records somewhere else. No domain has been taken down.
Re:First leak! (Score:5, Informative)
If only browsers bookmarked the IP address as well as the domain name.
It would be an interesting feature to have, but generally speaking if you've been to the site, odds are pretty good you still have the A record in your local DNS cache. I find it easier to look this up on Windows than Linux. For Windows, you just run "ipconfig /displaydns", for Linux you need to have caching nameserver running, and then either dig or nslookup the site in question against your local caching nameserver.