German Wikileaks Suspension Not Related To Police Raid

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."

Comments

BND involved?

[Krupuk]

On November 5th and December 8th, Wikileaks leaked some BND information. On Devember 8th, the ISP ended the contract. Coincidence? I think not.

Re:Hanlon's Razor ....

[twostix]

Hanlon's Razor sounds like it should be renamed to "The GWB Principle"

Heading up an administration that achieved every goal that the top level members of had publicly advocated for over and over for a decade is incompetence?

Reopened war and regime change in Iraq? Check.
Hobbling the US federal government by drowning it in debt? Check.
Funneling astronomical amounts of public cash into their personal associates Corporations and by extension their own bank accounts? Check.
And to top it off, in the last months of presidency, presiding over the greatest plundering of a treasury in the history of the world...Check.

Yes, what a bunch of incompetents, incompetently sitting on their mountains of cash, untouchable by any law after having changed the course of history as they saw fit. Exactly as they said in the 1990s that they were going to do once they got back into power.

I wish I was that incompetent.

Update: Why the contract was terminated

[tmk]

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.

Re:Update: Why the contract was terminated

[arkhan_jg]

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.