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A number of mirror sites for WikiLeaks have been created as a response to the wikileaks.org domain shutdown by EveryDNS[1] and the Amazon cut.[2]

As of December 7, 2010, WikiLeaks is mirrored on 1005 sites.[3]

WikiLeaks announcement

WikiLeaks announcement requesting help: Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack.
In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help.
if you have a unix-based server which is hosting a website on the Internet and you want to give wikileaks some of your hosting resources, you can help! |WikiLeaks|http://46.59.1.2/mass-mirror.html

Events

EveryDNS.net

On 2 December 2010, EveryDNS, a domain name registrar, dropped WikiLeaks from its entries, citing denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) that "threatened the stability of its infrastructure",[4] but the site was still reachable at http://46.59.1.2[5] and http://213.251.145.96, as well as several other addresses.

EveryDNS.net public statement: EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services to the 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 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 account. In addition to this email, notices were sent to Wikileaks via Twitter and the chat function available through the wikileaks.org website. Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider.|EveryDNS.net|December 2, 2010 - 10:00pm, http://www.everydns.com/news

Amazon Web Services

After the site became the target of a denial-of-service attack from a hacker on its old servers, WikiLeaks moved its site to Amazon's servers.[6] Later, however, the website was "ousted"[6] from the Amazon servers. WikiLeaks then decided to install itself on the servers of OVH in France.[7]

Amazon Web Services statement: There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate.

There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDOS attacks. That too is inaccurate. There were indeed large-scale DDOS attacks, but they were successfully defended against.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis. AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not following them. There were several parts they were violating. For example, our terms of service state that “you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content… that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity.” It’s clear that WikiLeaks doesn’t own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content. Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren’t putting innocent people in jeopardy. Human rights organizations have in fact written to WikiLeaks asking them to exercise caution and not release the names or identities of human rights defenders who might be persecuted by their governments.

We’ve been running AWS for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS. Some of this data is controversial, and that’s perfectly fine. But, when companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities of data that isn’t rightfully theirs, and publishing this data without ensuring it won’t injure others, it’s a violation of our terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere.

We look forward to continuing to serve our AWS customers and are excited about several new things we have coming your way in the next few months.|Amazon Web Services|http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/

OVH

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iojKm00N9vMvjVGwO2ZNko9rVpBw?docId=CNG.3c86e1065eee2cfd740284f4a84f3555.121

Progress

Mirrors

This is a list of WikiLeaks mirrors, sorted by domains, subdomains and IPv6. As of December 7, 2010, WikiLeaks is mirrored on 1005 sites.[3]

Domains


Subdomains

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IPv6


Reactions

In the Netherlands the site http://www.powned.tv/wikileaks/ is active[8]

Dutch public broadcaster PowNed (created in September 2010 by the anti-immigrant blog GeenStijl.nl) is behind this mirrorsite. This caused Dutch polical party CDA (via Member of the House of Representatives Ank Bijleveld) to ask the Dutch cabinet to intervene, stating: "We reckon that a public broadcast should not do this and it is important to make sure that this isn't possible anymore." Dominique Weesie, chairman of that broadcaster, responded by stating: "Bijleveld would be great in North Korea. The Wikileaks mirror on PowNed stays just where it is."[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.everydns.com/news
  2. ↑ http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://46.59.1.2/mirrors.html
  4. ↑ Satter, Raphael G.; Svensson, Peter (3 December 2010) "WikiLeaks Fights To Stay Online Amid Attacks". Associated Press (via The Charlotte Observer). Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  5. ↑ http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=cablegate.wikileaks.org
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gross, Doug WikiLeaks cut off from Amazon servers. CNN. URL accessed on 2 December 2010.
  7. ↑ (French) Expulsé d'Amazon, WikiLeaks trouve refuge en France. 2 December 2010, Le Point
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/politiek/2010/12/cda_hekelt_pownedmirror_wikile.html

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