It started as a bit of fun. Rob Fenwick (@rfenwick) registered the web site wikileeks.org.uk as a satirical wheeze when the US cable story broke early in the week.
But over night we learnt that EveryDNS.net, the US host of the Wikileeks.org DNS domain, has refused to support the site any longer. It claimed that an onslaught of denial of service attacks was putting other customers at risk.
A DNS service translates a web address into machine-readable numbers. Without a DNS host the only way to reach the Wikileaks site is via the http://46.59.1.2/.
That was until Fenwick stepped in and redirected the DNS on his Wikileeks domain to the Wikileaks. Follow wikileeks.org.uk.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Stephen Waddington and Speed Communications, Lynda Taylor. Lynda Taylor said: RT @wadds: [Blog] Follow Fenwick’s (@rfenwick) Wikileeks link to reach Wikileaks: http://wadds.co/exKFmQ [...]