The Wikileaks.org site is now down because their California-based213.251.145.96 DNS service provider - Everydns - dropped them at 10PM EST on Thursday, citing the intense Denial of Service attacks that were targeting the site, and claiming that the move was necessary to protect their other customers from being affected. What this means simply is that anyone going to www.wikileaks.org gets an error message as the DNS servers do not translate this into an IP address for the server where the site is hosted. WikiLeaks have said that they are getting the data back up in Switzerland, with the URL www.wikileaks.ch, but as of now, this points to the IP address - 213.251.145.96 - where I browsed the landing page a few minutes ago, but which is not returning any results right now. This story is still evolving all the time.
UPDATE: By the time I finished this diary, the Swiss URL seems to have come back up and the IP address is also responding, though there are elements that are still offline or not working. More below the fold.
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