"On April 9th 2009, the internet domain registration for the investigative journalism site Wikileaks.de was suspended without notice by Germany's registration authority DENIC. The action comes two weeks after the house of the German WikiLeaks domain sponsor, Theodor Reppe, was searched by German authorities. Police documentation shows that the March 24, 2009 raid was triggered by WikiLeaks' publication of Australia's proposed secret internet censorship list. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) told Australian journalists that they did not request the intervention of the German government..."
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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devnull
3 years 6 weeks 17 hours 46 min ago
i really love all these
i really love all these countries that "take down" a freaking domain name to sites that have plenty of domain names to spare. It's an act in brattiness.
motters
3 years 6 weeks 14 hours 13 min ago
Better governance
I'm quite sympathetic towards Wikileaks, and think what they're trying to do is good. Governments and corporations should not be able to hide their unethical activities behind a veil of secrecy, and this sort of exposure is like kryponite to those who are behaving irresponsibly. More openness should in the long run lead to better quality governance - similar to a Nash equilibrium.
dinsdale
3 years 5 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago
deleted or expired?
I met someone from DENIC at a conference and brought the topic up. He said the domain went into transition which happens to domains who don't get renewed after their expiration date, according to him; no special treatment just for wikileaks.
As I see now the domain is up and running again with this information from whois:
Changed: 2009-04-17T14:28:52+02:00
If this information is correct which I can't confirm at this point I think the article should be corrected since it puts the DENIC into a bad light for no reason.