Since the site Wikileaks published over 250k US and International documents about the war in Afgasnistan and Iraq, Amazon.com (their hosting company) and their DNS provider have cancelled their contracts, forcing them to look for international hosting and DNS providers.
BBC
Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has been forced to change its web address after the company providing its domain name cut off service.
EveryDNS.net said it had terminated services because Wikileaks.org had come under massive cyber attacks.
But Wikileaks has already reappeared using a Swiss web address.
Wikileaks has also used the micro-blogging site Twitter to urge its fans to redistribute its "raw" net address so it can be viewed at any time.
This numerical internet protocol (IP) address remains live and accessible even when web domains - the normal "www" addresses used to access most sites - are unavailable.
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