WikiLeaks offline after domain 'killed'

WIKILEAKS has been taken offline after its domain host EveryDNS.net terminated the whistleblower website's account, Heraldsun reported.

"WikiLeaks.org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks," WikiLeaks tweeted, after its website went offline for the third time in a week.

EveryDNS.net said in a statement on its website it had terminated services to WikiLeaks, which it had hosted for four years.

"EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services to the wikileaks.org domain name until 10pm EST, December 2, 2010, when such services were terminated."

It did not give any reasons for the termination, which comes amid massive controversy for WikiLeaks. On Sunday it began releasing 250,000 US diplomatic cables in its biggest leak so far, angering leaders across the globe.

WikiLeaks will now need to register wikileaks.org - which it owns until 2018 - with another domain host in order to get its site up and running again.

The outage came after Amazon.com Inc. announced yesterday it would no longer host WikiLeaks from its web servers because the site violated its terms of service.

Also yesterday, Sweden said it would issue a new international arrest warrant for the website's founder Julian Assange over allegations of rape and molestation.

Australian-born Assange has not been seen in public since Sunday, but he is reportedly in a location in southeast England.

Assange was not on the run, his London-based lawyer Mark Stephens