It's been all over the tech-news lately, every hosting provider supplying WikiLeaks, is under attack. Either their DNS infrastructure, or the servers in specific. Which is why they decided to mass-spread the content, over various mirrors.
Since each of these mirrors is a potential DDoS invite, it's worth noting for ISPs if any of these mirrors are hosted within their network. Not to shut them down (freedome of speech, netneutrality, ...), but to be aware of the potential risk, and to take appropriate measures to protect the rest of their network.
To make this slighly easier, I created a page that parses Wikileaks' mirror list, and matches them to their ISP (via RIPE WHOIS): http://wl.mattiasgeniar.be/
While it's far from perfect, it's good enough for "60 minute hack", to present the mirrors in a new format.
Click through for the list: "Where are WikiLeaks' mirrors hosted?".
I wonder how many mirrors you’ve gotten taken offline and accounts closed with your “helpful” updating list. Hosting companies don’t care about freedom of speech or net neutrality. You’re being very naive. I also wonder what your provider will think if your webservers get DOS’d by angry former mirror owners.
I thank you for your kind, and obviously very insightful comment.
I work at a hosting provider. I created this list, to easily track if we host any of the WikiLeaks’ mirrors. This is not private data, this is all publicly available via WHOIS services, I merely aggregate it and list it.
Or would you say Google is responsible for bringing down all WikiLeaks’ mirrors, because you can use it to find them? Seriously.