The website of whistle-blowing organization Wikileaks has been close down by the firm providing it with domain name services.
EveryDNS.net mentioned it had consummated services since Wikileaks.org had advance beneath large cyber attacks.
It mentioned the attacks in jeopardy its infrastructure and involved access to thousands of other websites.
Wikileaks says it has faced intrusion since it began edition thousands of secret US tactful cables.
The memos, that confer US tactful family and army activities, have been causing debate opposite the world.
In a post on Twitter, Wikileaks concurred that its domain had been "killed" by EveryDNS.net.
It was not coherent how long intrusion to the site would final for.
In a matter on its website , EveryDNS.net mentioned it had released a 24-hour termination observe to Wikileaks that finished at 0300 GMT on 2 December.
It mentioned the domain wikileaks.org had turn the aim of "multiple distributed rejection of service (DDOS) attacks".
"These attacks have, and future attacks would, bluster the fortitude of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, that enables access to roughly 500,000 other websites," it said.
"Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its disaster to use other hosted DNS service provider," it added.
Wikileaks says its website has been beneath assault since it began edition more than 250,000 personal US tactful cables.
It incited to the online store Amazon to horde its site but the firm finished the consent on Wednesday - a pierce welcomed by US officials.
Wikileaks mentioned its site is right away being hosted by servers in Europe.
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