WikiLeaks has been knocked off the net after the US company everydns.net which translated its domain name – wikileaks.org – to its "internet protocol" (IP) address withdrew support.

The Wikileaks.org domain was "killed by the US everydns" after what everydns claimed was a mass attack according to a update from the Wikileaks twitter account

"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 free EveryDNS.net service said in a statement on its website.

"The interference at issues arises from the fact that wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks," it added. "These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites."

It said it had sent messages 24 hours before the termination, saying that "any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider."

When people now visit Wikileaks.org it would show up the same way a non existing domain would show up.

The EveryDNS.net statement came as Amazon.com said such denial of service attacks or political pressure from U.S. officials had not led it to stop hosting WikiLeaks.

Amazon said WikiLeaks had violated its terms of service by publishing the leaked documents as it did not "own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content."

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