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EveryDNS.net EveryDNS.net Status All systems are functioning normally. 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. As with other users of the EveryDNS.net network, this service was provided for free. The termination of services was effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy. More specifically, the services were terminated for violation of the provision which states that "Member shall not interfere with another Member's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services." The...

Our local evening news reported that the WikiLeaks site is being hosted on Amazon's "hack-proof" servers right here in Washington. I did a traceroute to verify this, and sure enough... that's where cablegate.wikileaks.org is being hosted. I find this apalling on a number of levels. What do other freepers think an American company aiding in the espionage against our nation?

WASHINGTON, DC, November 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recent reports that Amazon.com was selling a how-to book on pedophilia called “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct” has prompted a top conservative women’s group to call on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate.When news of the book sale broke on the blog TechCrunch on Oct 28, Amazon at first defended the item, saying it refused to pull the product “simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.” But hours later, after the news sparked national outrage and threats of boycott, the Amazon listing...

DENVER (AP) -- Police are investigating whether the author of a guide for pedophiles did anything illegal even as they try to protect him from a threat posted on a local website. Phillip Ray Greaves II of Pueblo has drawn national attention because his self-published book for sale on Amazon offers advice to pedophiles on how to make a sexual encounter with a child as safe as possible.

You may have heard that there's something rotten on Amazon.com. We have learned that it doesn't end with the company's dropping of "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct." Books and videos depicting pre-pubescent Eastern European and Asian girls, some of whom are nude, are listed for sale on Amazon in the U.S. and Japan, as of press time. The listings are disturbing, as you may be able to sense even from the blurred item pictured above...

I was heartened to see the disgust with which people reacted to the news of this book being sold on Amazon, but this public outcry is too little, too late. Boycotting Amazon for carrying this title not only has been tried before (and failed), but it ignores the root causes of the problem. On sites like Blogher the calls for Amazon to remove one of Greaves’ books are little more than demands that Amazon hide the reality of the well organized pro-pedophilia movement which has been empowered both by the rise of the Internet and our own inability to confront...

In an interview today, the author at the center of a controversy about Amazon’s sale of a self-published pedophile’s guide told TSG that he has sold exactly one copy of the book and revealed that he was involuntarily hospitalized following a “mental breakdown.” Noting that, “I have what they call manic depression,” Phillip Greaves, 47, said that he himself was not a pedophile and that “the best advice I can give a pedophile is accept that masturbation is your best friend.” Greaves’s book, “The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct,” last week became available for...

NEW YORK – Amazon is selling a self-published book defending pedophiles, sparking discussions about the retailer's obligation to vet items before they are sold in its online stores. The book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" by Philip R. Greaves II, offers advice to pedophiles afraid of becoming the center of retaliation. It is an electronic book available for Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader.

Amazon’s stance against censorship may be getting “5 stars” from a handful of its customers, but the big bookseller is getting single-star ratings and threats from consumers promising to “take their business elsewhere” in protest of a controversial volume on its Kindle sales shelf. “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure” is getting overwhelmingly negative reaction from online shoppers who have used comments like “absolutely disgusting” and “Are you insane?” in posts that pan both the book and Amazon for selling it. More than 1,400 comments had been posted to the Amazon listing early Wednesday evening; about 99 percent were...

NEW YORK – Amazon is selling a self-published book defending pedophiles, sparking discussions about the retailer's obligation to vet items before they are sold in its online stores. The book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" by Philip R. Greaves II, offers advice to pedophiles afraid of becoming the center of retaliation. It is an electronic book available for Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader. The book has triggered mounting outrage on Twitter and beyond. A chorus of Twitter users is calling for Amazon to pull the book, with a few threatening to boycott the Kindle...

The Practice's David E. Kelley, has come on board to write and produce a new series project about the female superhero. The project, from Warner Bros. Television where Kelley is based, and Warner Bros.' DC Entertainment, will be taken out to the networks shortly. Kelley, who has created several female-centered shows, most notably Ally McBeal, had been interested in tackling a contemporary take on the World War II-era Amazon. Details on the reboot are being kept under wraps, and it is not clear if the new Wonder Woman aka Diana Prince will keep her signature powers and weapons, including her...

Judging by the leaked terms and conditions, Amazon plans to swagger into the Android world with an alternative app download store, fists a-whirling. Are they building it to co-exist with Android's Market...or for an Android-powered SuperKindle? Google isn't exactly a liberal, supportive father when manufacturers want to fool around with their open source software. They actually have some surprising restrictions—though really, they're not that surprising when you consider it's in their best interests to protect the quality of Android and thus, their future lineage.Google's potential suitor, Amazon, has been very successful with its Kindle range—so successful, in fact, that you...

A warmist coup seems to have taken place on Amazon, the online bookseller, writes Christopher Booker.The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia. The editors of that online source of all knowledge are ready with lightning speed to ensure that its entries related to climate change are purged of any hint of dissent from the party line – and that entries for “climate sceptics” are given a viciously dismissive twist, Now it seems a similar coup has taken place on Amazon, the online outlet which is Britain’s largest bookseller. Over the...

Ah, the big guys. You know that every big cap made some stockholders pretty happy on their way toward becoming big caps. And even when big, a lot of the big guys have plenty of fuel left in the tank. The latest IBD 100 has some pretty big tech big caps, including some big names and some up-and-comers. The tech companies with the largest market caps on the latest IBD 100 are: 1. Apple (AAPL) . Apple is No. 58 on the latest list,

To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial - from the ubiquitous fruit palms to the cry of howler monkeys, from the air thick with mosquitoes to the unruly tangle of jungle vines. Archaeologists, many of them Americans, say the opposite is true: This patch of forest, and many others across the Amazon, was instead home to an advanced, even spectacular civilization that managed the forest and enriched infertile soil to feed thousands. The findings are discrediting a once-bedrock theory of archaeology that long held that...

New Kindles start shipping to customers today--two days ahead of previously announced release date SEATTLE, Aug 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- (NASDAQ: AMZN)--Amazon.com today announced that more new generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles the fastest-selling ever. In addition, in the four weeks since the introduction of the new Kindle and Kindle 3G, customers ordered more Kindles on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk combined than any other product, continuing Kindle's over two-year run as the bestselling product across all the products sold on...

The Washington Examiner reports today on a promising new education program that provides Amazon (AMZN) Kindles to students to reduce paper use in universities — and how the the Department of Justice stepped in to squash it. The DOJ actually sued the schools, including Princeton, Arizona State and Case Western Reserve, to halt the programs because it decided the e-book reader does not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com says it has already sold out of the two new Kindle e-reader models it announced last week. A spokesman confirmed Monday that the company is temporarily sold out of the Kindles. Both can wirelessly download books — a $189 model does so over 3G cellular networks and Wi-Fi, while a $139 model just uses Wi-Fi. Amazon.com Inc. started taking new Kindle orders on July 28, saying they would ship to customers on Aug. 27. On Monday, its website said customers could still order the devices, and they're expected to ship on or before Sept. 4. ...

SEATTLE — Amazon.com will introduce two new versions of the Kindle e-reader on Thursday, one for $139, the lowest price yet for the device. Amazon is hoping to convince even casual readers that they need a digital reading device. By firing another shot in an e-reader price war leading up to the year-end holiday shopping season, the e-commerce giant turned consumer electronics manufacturer is also signaling it intends to do battle with Apple and its iPad as well as the other makers of e-readers like Sony and Barnes & Noble.