Tag Archives: wikileaks

Sat 29th January 2011
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Julian Assange Now Owns WikiLeaks.com - Founder of controversial WikiLeaks organization now owns Wikileaks.com domain name. Last week I wrote about how the domain name wikileaks.com had expired. The domain name was registered by Wikia, Inc, the group behind Wikipedia, for defensive reasons after the official WikiLeaks site Wikileaks.org launched. Wikia was trying to hand the domain name over to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, but Assange failed to accept the transfer and the domain name expired ... read more ...
Tue 14th December 2010
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WikiLeaks Finally Figures Out How to Change Its DNS - I thought these guys were tech savvy? A couple weeks after WikiLeaks.org’s DNS services provider cut if off, someone within the organization finally figured out how to log into the registrar account and change the DNS. Seriously, was this just a ploy to get more publicity? When EveryDNS cut of WikiLeaks, all the organization had to do was log in to its Dynadot account and change the nameservers to another DNS or hosting service. Instead the domain name sat there…not ... read more ...
Fri 3rd December 2010
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WikiLeaks Domain Not Shut Down, Just DNS - Domain name not seized or shut down; DNS provider takes action. A story on Guardian.co.uk screams “WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company 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 says that Everydns took the site down. Everydns was only providing DNS services to Wikileaks. The WikiLeaks.org domain name is registered ... read more ...