Wikileaks: Google makes DNS obsolete

8 points by Complete 15y ago ↗ HN

Thats interesting: When searching for Wikileaks on Google, I get "213.251.145.96" as the #1 result. Im in Germany. Dont know if its the same around the world.

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koski 15y ago ↗

Same in France, IP as the first result.

gsivil 15y ago ↗

This is the first working result in the States too

gsivil 15y ago ↗

Before that:

wikileaks.org

cablegate.wikileaks.org

and when you click you get the usual "Oops!"

mooism2 15y ago ↗

Only #3 for me (UK).

It does rather depend on lots of people getting the word out though. I'm not sure it would work for a less prominent website.

Yaggo 15y ago ↗

German keyboards don't have an apostrophe?

giulio 15y ago ↗

It works! I get it as first Google result from Italy. http://213.251.145.96/mirrors.html has current mirrors.

binarray2000 15y ago ↗

Domain name unreachable? Use the IP! (thanks Google) So, what's next? Will US government force Google to not return any results on keywords "wikileaks", "cablegate" or similar as they have (OK, it was... senator... Joe Lieberman) pressed Amazon and others (EasyDNS for example: because of the pressure on the Swiss DNS provider by the US and French governments we can suspect they [EasyDNS] were pressed, too)? Two words: "Chinese Democracy".