WikiLeaks moves domain name as hackers wage war

WIKILEAKS has been forced to switch over to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch, after a new round of hacker attacks on its system prompted its American domain name provider to withdraw service.

WikiLeaks’ US domain name system provider, EveryDNS, withdrew service to the wikileaks.org name late on Thursday, saying it took the action because the new hacker 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,” EveryDNS, headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, said.