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By Georgina Prodhan
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By Georgina Prodhan
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Fri Dec 3, 2010 10:51am EST
PARIS (Reuters) - WikiLeaks moved its website address to Switzerland on Friday after two U.S. Internet providers ditched it in the space of two days, and Paris tried to ban French servers from hosting its database of leaked information.
The Internet publisher announced it had moved to wikileaks.ch, after the wikileaks.org site on which it had published classified U.S. government information vanished from view for about six hours.
EveryDNS.net, which helps computers to locate the sites of its members, said it had stopped providing services to WikiLeaks at 2200 U.S. Eastern time on Thursday (0300 GMT on Friday).
WikiLeaks had turned to EveryDNS and host servers in Europe after Amazon.com stopped hosting the site on Thursday.
The United States is furious about WikiLeaks' publication of hundreds of confidential diplomatic cables that have given unvarnished and sometimes embarrassing insights into the foreign policy of the United States and its allies.
Amazon denied it was under pressure from lawmakers, saying WikiLeaks had breached its terms by not owning the rights to the content it was publishing. But U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Joe Lieberman questioned Amazon about its relationship with WikiLeaks on Tuesday and called on other companies that host websites to boycott WikiLeaks.
To run a website, WikiLeaks needs three things above all: computer servers that hold or "host" its content; a "registrar" that enables it to own a particular domain, such as "wikileaks.ch" or "wikileaks.org"; and a provider such as EveryDNS that links the hosts and the names together so that users can use a particular address or URL such as www.wikileaks.org to call up the website behind it.
FRENCH ACTION
In a letter seen by Reuters on Friday, France's Industry Minister Eric Besson said he would try to ensure that WikiLeaks could no longer be hosted in France.
WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange, said in an online question and answer session with readers of Britain's Guardian newspaper that he had expected clampdowns from countries that proclaimed the right to free speech:
"Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit in order to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases."
Mikael Viborg, owner of the Swedish "Web hotel" PRQ, which has long been home to some WikiLeaks servers and is favored by a variety of political dissidents and activists, said that as far as he knew those servers were up and running.
Michiel Leenaars, director of strategy at the Dutch Internet research group NLnet, said any attempt to stop WikiLeaks' information from being published was doomed.
"It's an arms race," he said. "The information is out there and people are publishing and republishing it around the planet. Over 2,000 people are seeding it as we speak."
EveryDNS.net said the WikiLeaks web address that it administered had been bombarded by unidentified Internet hackers, undermining the service it provides to other clients.
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pesheff wrote:
Let me get this straight:
Child pedophile – it’s OK! Freedom of Speech!
WikiLeaks – ahem…sorry no freedom of speech for you!
The sheeple should wake up from watching dancing with the stars and for once see what the real world is about!
dic 03, 2010 7:07am EST -- Report as abuse
kordo wrote:
I would compare Assange to V.I.Uljanov (Lenin).
The activities of Assange are revolutionary and the chase and methods are really similar.
dic 03, 2010 7:37am EST -- Report as abuse
jmallas wrote:
What a coincidence that EveryDNS is an American company! I wonder if they also got a call from the US government like Amazon did….
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