DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group

[Hissyspit]

Source: Wired


By Kim Zetter
December 9, 2010  |  4:05 pm  | 

A DNS provider that suffered backlash last week after it was wrongly identified as supplying and then dropping DNS service to WikiLeaks has decided to support the secret-spilling site, offering DNS service to two domains distributing WikiLeaks content.

EasyDNS, a Canadian firm, was attacked last Friday after media outlets mistakenly reported it had terminated its service for WikiLeaks. The company sent an e-mail to customers Thursday morning letting them know that it had begun providing DNS service for WikiLeaks.ch and WikiLeaks.nl, two of the primary domain names WikiLeaks relocated to after WikiLeaks.org stopped resolving. “We’ve already done the time, we might as well do the crime,” Mark Jeftovic, president and CEO of EasyDNS, told Threat Level about his decision.

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Jeftovic said he was also in line to take over service for the WikiLeaks.org domain, but that fell through after there was confusion about who exactly controls the domain. He said he’s willing to take that one on as well, if the details are worked out. Jeftovic agreed to provide the service on condition that resolution for the domains would be provided by dedicated, battle-hardened servers separate from other customers so that any attacks directed against them would not disturb other clients.

Although he says his company is pro-transparency, Jeftovic didn’t go so far as to say he philosophically supports WikiLeaks. “But I do not believe WikiLeaks is aiding terrorists,” he said. “I think there’s so much hyperbole around it.”

Read more: http://m.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/easydns/

[robinlynne]

1. NICE!

[Frank Booth]

2. Now that's real integrity.

[Recursion]

3. nic.ch still has registrar status for the domain

Which means if push came to shove they have the technical ability to keep easydns from doing this. As of now they have not done that, so easydns's servers are now the NS for the domain, and nic.ch recurses correctly. But this points to the fact that you ultimately can't get a domain name without a government at some point letting you.

[Bragi]

4. I guess the White House wasn't able to get to him

He is a Canadian, after all, so I guess the White House was unsuccessful in getting him to join with them and big U.S Internet corporations in the anti-free speech campaign against WikiLeaks and Assange.

[kgnu_fan]

5. kick