Whistle-Blower Site Taken Offline
From BBC News (18 Feb 2008)
Wikileaks Taken Down By Order of a US Court
By Phil Cubeta – Gift Hub (18 Feb 2008)
U.S. Court Shuts Down Whistleblower Site
By Paul Kiel – TPM Muckraker (18 Feb 2008)
"Yes. Wikileaks has been hit by a surprise (less than 24 hours notice, "served by email" TRO on its registrar). The order was granted Thursday afternoon. Wikileaks was NOT notified of the order except through our former council who lives in San Francisco and present for the start of the hearing (then removed from the hearing and its outcome). Dynadot, the Californian domain registrar acted in breach of Wikileaks and ICANN contract by blocking transfer of the domain BEFORE the hearing (and order).
Wikileaks.cn (China) has also been seized (illegally), we were expecting that.
However for the land of the free and the brave, we certainly were not expecting an attack on the registrar, justified by prior publishing restraint (!) and backed by a bunch of Cayman Islands money launderers and Hollywood lawyers trying to cover up the true structures of trusts and shell companies.
Then today there was a fire in our Swedish data center.
Backups are on-line.
ps. The judge in Thursday’s hearing was a Bush appointee and former prosecutor, "not noted" as they say, in legal circles for his love of the First Amendment."