Controversial whistle blowing website faces uphill struggle to stay online
Troubles for Wikileaks continue to mount after EveryDNS pulled the plug on the domain name system services it gave to the website
The company, which links Wikileaks www.wikileaks.org address with its numerical IP address said it had terminated the services for the website. This is because the massive denial of service attacks launched against the website breached its acceptable use policy.
This states "Member shall not interfere with another Member’s use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity’s use and enjoyment of similar services” and future attacks threatened its infrastructure.
At the same time Amazon stopped hosting the whistle blowing website on its severs; allegedly following pressure from US Senators. Wikileaks had temporarily switched to Amazon's servers during the cyber attacks.
A comment on the website’s Twitter feed said: “If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books." The Twitter feed also said the website was now being hosted in Switzerland.
The site is using the Twitter site to urge people to redistribute its numerical IP address, which is http://213.251.145.96. This allows people to access the website and the leaked US Embassy cables.
There is also a published list of mirror sites, which Wikileaks hopes will provide constant access to the site. Although Computeractive has tried some and attempts to log on to some of the addresses failed
