Reglikedomain industry desk

Not Shut Down, Just DNS — WikiLeaks Domain

Domain name not seized or shut down; DNS provider takes action.

A story on Guardian.co.uk screams “WikiLeaks fights to stay online following US firm withdraws domain name”.

This headline is misleading and suggests that the WikiLeaks.org domain name has been shut down. This is incorrect. When you actually read the story, it states that Everydns took the site down. Everydns was only providing DNS services to Wikileaks. The WikiLeaks.org domain name is registered with Dynadot, which does not appear to have taken any action on the domain name. Really all WikiLeaks.org needs to do is change DNS providers.

Still, the domain name is at risk. Dynadot is a U.S. firm and the .org registry is based in the U.S.

Wikileaks is shifting to a number of alternatives, counting country code domain names.

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