Dropped by domain name provider, WikiLeaks back in 6 hrs with new address

Stockholm: After dropped by its American domain name system provider, EveryDNS, the whistleblower website WikiLeaks was put back on line on Friday with a new Swiss address — wikileaks.ch — six hours after its previous domain name — wikileaks.org — was killed.

EveryDNS, withdrawn its service to the wikileaks.org name after the secret-spilling website once again became the target of hack attacks.

EveryDNS said in a statement that it dropped the website late yesterday because the attacks threatened the rest of its network.

“Wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure,” it said in a statement. EveryDNS provides access to some 500,000 websites.

WikiLeaks confirmed the drop on its Twitter account, saying “WikiLeaks.org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks.”

“WikiLeaks moves to Switzerland,” the group declared on Twitter, although an Internet trace of the new domain name suggested that the site itself is still hosted in Sweden and in France.

Web users accessing the wikileaks.ch address are directed to a page under the URL http://213.251.145.96/ — which gives them access to the former site, including a massive trove of leaked US diplomatic traffic.