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German Wikileaks Suspension Not Related To Police Raid

Posted by Soulskill on from the well-that's-much-less-outrageous dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Contrary to what we discussed four days ago, Germany's registration authority, DeNIC, did not suspend access to wikileaks.de. After some investigation, Heise found out that the ISP ended the contract (in German, Babelfish translation) with Theodor Reppe back in December 2008, with the mandatory three-month notice giving him enough time to move wikileaks.de elsewhere — which he did not do. At the end of March, the domain wikileaks.de was released back to DeNIC."

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  1. Hanlon's Razor .... by shri · · Score: 4, Informative

    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. seems appropriate here.

  2. Update: Why the contract was terminated by tmk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wikileaks has published a new press release about the alleged censorship. After I read the details I fully understand why the contract had been terminated.

    In December Reppe tried to transfer bnd.de - the domain of the federal intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst - to his account. To do that he had to assure that he was the rightful owner of bnd.de. The provider stopped the transition and terminated the contract with Reppe with 3 months notice.

    1. Re:Update: Why the contract was terminated by arkhan_jg · · Score: 5, Informative

      He then arranged with the hosting company in January to keep the account open until the end of his existing pre-paid term - an agreement that was then broken with no warning when they killed his account and dumped all his domains back to deNIC as originally threatened, and prevented him from moving them to another registrar.

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