WikiLeaks’ site back with new address after six hours

Mangalore Today News Network

Stockholm, December 3 :The whistleblower website WikiLeaks was put back on line Friday with a new Swiss address -- wikileaks.ch -- six hours after its previous domain name -- wikileaks.org -- was killed. "WikiLeaks moves to Switzerland," the group declared on Twitter, although an Internet trace of the new domain name suggested that the site itself is still hosted in Sweden and in France.

 

Webusers accessing the wikileaks.ch address are directed to a page under the URL http://213.251.145.96/ -- which gives them access to the former site, including a massive trove of leaked US diplomatic traffic.

Earlier, WikiLeaks’ domain name system provider says it has withdrawn service to the wikileaks.org name.

EveryDNS says it dropped the website late on Thursday after it became the "target of multiple distributed denial of service attacks."

The American provider says in a statement that the attacks have threatened the stability of its infrastructure.

 
A Wikileaks post on Twitter said on Friday that the domain had been "killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks."
 

The post on Twitter also said "KEEP US STRONG" and linked to a page that sought donations: "WikiLeaks brings truth to the world by publishing fact-based stories without fear or favor. You can help support our independent media by donating financially."

 
Earlier this week, Wikileaks began to publish over a quarter million documents containing confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC.
 

The US has cried foul and said the leak compromises security.