The Web Difference

Wikileaks.org, a site that allows whistleblowers to anonymously post confidential documents, has been taken offline by court order in California. The BBC article states that a case brought by Swiss bank Julius Baer resulted in the judgment along the following lines:

… the main site was taken offline after the court ordered that Dynadot, which controls the site’s domain name, should remove all traces of wikileaks from its servers.

The court also ordered that Dynadot should “prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court.”

Other orders included that the domain name be locked “to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar” to prevent changes being made to the site.

The site is apparently still available in other countries such as Belgium and India, though I think these must be localised versions. The site claims they couldn’t defend themselves at the hearing because they were only given hours notice.

BBC news story

EDIT: See Kparker’s comment below explaining that the site has just been removed from the DNS so it is still available if you know the IP (it is hosted in Sweden).

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