WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net

[Marc Perkel]

My first thought is what would it take to keep wikileaks.org online in 
the face of massive attacks? I would host them but I don't have the 
resources to withstand that kind of attack myself.

On 12/2/2010 10:03 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>
> This is what everydns said:
>
> "EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services to the
> wikileaks.org <http://wikileaks.org/> domain name until 10PM EST, 
> December 2, 2010, when such
> services were terminated. As with other users of the EveryDNS.net
> network, this service was provided for free. The termination of
> services was effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, the
> EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy.
>
> More specifically, the services were terminated for violation of the
> provision which states that "Member shall not interfere with another
> Member's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use and
> enjoyment of similar services." The interference at issues arises from
> the fact that wikileaks.org <http://wikileaks.org/> has become the 
> target of multiple
> distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. These attacks have, and
> future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net
> infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites.
>
> Thus, last night, at approximately 10PM EST, December 1, 2010 a 24
> hour termination notification email was sent to the email address
> associated with the wikileaks.org <http://wikileaks.org/> account. In 
> addition to this email,
> notices were sent to Wikileaks via Twitter and the chat function
> available through the wikileaks.org <http://wikileaks.org/> website. 
> Any downtime of the
> wikileaks.org <http://wikileaks.org/> website has resulted from its 
> failure to use another
> hosted DNS service provider."
>
> IMHO, the folks from Wikileaks were expecting this type of reaction 
> and are playing with it, very naive DNS setup for such a polemic site.
>
> -J
>
>
> 2010/12/2 Poomjit Sirawongprasert <poomjit at gmail.com 
> <mailto:poomjit at gmail.com>>
>
>     FYI,
>
>     https://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/10567274838622208
>
>     WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net
>     <http://everydns.net/> after claimed mass attacks.
>
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