WikiLeaks forfeits the usage of WikiLeaks.org and changes their domain to WikiLeaks.ch

[maddezmom]

By Joe Brooks
(WIREUPDATE) — Early Friday morning WikiLeaks announced they are changing their domain name from WikiLeaks.org to WikiLeaks.ch after a DNS service provider terminated their services at the original domain.

"WikiLeaks moves to Switzerland" read the message on Twitter referring to the top-level domain name belonging to the country Switzerland.


The WikiLeaks.org outage came just two days after Amazon Web Services (AWS) decided to end its hosting agreements with WikiLeaks, resulting in the website to go offline for several hours until it was moved back to its previous Swedish host Bahnhof.

"AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed," the company said in a statement on Thursday. "WikiLeaks was not following them," it added, saying WikiLeaks provided content it did not have the rights to and said those could cause injury to a person or entity.

Then on late Thursday, while the site continued to suffer from attacks but managed to stay online, EveryDNS.net decided to stop its free DNS service to WikiLeaks. "The termination of services was effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy," it said in a statement on its website.

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[cutlassmama]

1. what country is "ch"? I know ".cn" is for China

[AlabamaLibrul]

2. Switzerland n/t

[cutlassmama]

3. thanks

[14thColony]

4. Stands for Confederatia Helvetica

The Latin version of the old "Helvetian Confederation" from the Middle Ages.

[jberryhill]

5. The one sans serif font that the Romans couldn't defeat /nt

[14thColony]

7. Good one! nt

[jberryhill]

9. Sometimes new Romans sent a dingbat courier there /nt

His name was Arial.

I read about it in an old English text.

[wildbilln864]

6. looking at it now...

took a while to load though. :hi:

ETA: Funny how Obama promised us transparency but Assange is the one delivering it.

[NightWatcher]

8. see also wikileaks.de wikileaks.fi or FOLLOW ON TWITTER

@wikileaks

They will post updated sites when others are attacked or shut down by governments, and security keys to mirror sites ahead of large releases.