The following news item interested me because of the manner in which a court order instructed the shutdown of Wikileaks.org. It’s instructive of how difficult it is to “kill” a Website when in a distributed environment.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Whistle-blower site taken offline:
Wikileaks.org… 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.
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