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Wikileaks.com expires but fate of domain name unknown

Elliot Silver has written a series of articles regarding Wikileaks.COM, a domain name that was registered at Go Daddy.

Here’s something else that’s interesting: wikileaks.com is expired.

I noticed this following reading a TechDirt article today regarding how the domain name is owned by the group behind Wikipedia. Wikia registered the domain name defensively following Wikileaks stated it would be a “Wikipedia of secrets”.

Since then the firm has offered to transfer the domain names to Wikileaks but the latter hasn’t accepted the transfer, as stated by an article on BBC.

The domain name expired on January 3. Will Go Daddy just let it go through the entire delete cycle? Or will it go to Go Daddy Auctions?

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