Fact: wikispooks.COM has been down since the 25th (last "WHOIS" update), due to the status of the domain: clientHold: "This status code tells your domain's registry to not activate your domain in the DNS and as a consequence, it will not resolve. It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal disputes, non-payment, or when your domain is subject to deletion".
The three DNS servers do not seem to be responding: two are in Germany (one belongs to CSL -yoker.com- which is the company with which they have the domain and hosting, and the other to Hetzner) and one in Canada (OVH).
If there had been "non-payment" to CSL/Yoker, the hosting would have fallen, not the domain (it can be said that it is a kind of "domain hijacking").
On reddit the subject has been discussed but nobody knows anything about it. I found a forum where the topic is discussed with interesting contributions: craigmurray.org.uk/forums/topic/wikispooks-has-vanished/
In this forum a user proposes a solution: change the hosts file. I don't recommend it, just enter the IP address directly in the browser: 198.199.127.59. You will be able to see, apparently, Wikispooks. The IP is from Amsterdam (Netherlands), and it seems to be a MIRROR SITE. As far as I know, we cannot know if this site is reliable and legitimate or not. BEWARE.
The weekly backups have continued, so we have the one from last Sunday. But until we know that this supposed mirror site is reliable, I wouldn't trust it. I have the backup from Sunday the 21st.
Assuming that it really is a mirror site, and is trustworthy, we can conclude several things:
- The last modification to the wiki before its "disappearance" is an article dedicated to
- Natalya Vovk, "a Ukrainian national who has been designated as the main suspect of murdering the Russian journalist Darya Dugina on 20 August 2022".
- There have been two article modifications on the 29th. This is important: it tooks place ON THAT MIRROR SITE. Again we face the question of whether it is reliable. The articles in question modified ON THAT MIRROR SITE are:
- Darya Dugin, "the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin and, according to the CCM, a journalist for Russian state-sponsored news agencies (...) assassinated in Moscow via a car-bomb or some other incendiary device planted in the Toyota Land Cruiser she had been driving", and
- Myrotvorets, "a Kyiv-based, allegedly 'NATO-backed' (see section Technical aspects) website, that publishes an Ukrainian kill list which contains personal information, including addresses, of people who are considered 'enemies of Ukraine'".
In any case, what seems certain is that we are dealing with an intelligence issue related to the current war in Ukraine.
Hello again, I'm Oscar.
After having spoken to our friend from the other forum, I have been able to verify that the IP address is correct.
I recommend the solution he proposes:
"By adding the line:
198.199.127.59 wikispooks.com
to my /etc/hosts file I can access the site".
Another option is to enter the IP address directly into the browser.
Good luck to all. Take care.
In the forum I mentioned in my first comment we can read the reason for the censorship:
"(...) the domain registrar turned off the DNS after receiving legal threats relating to our Tracy Twyman page".
The solution proposed before is still valid. I recommend consulting the forum in question for updates on the matter.
Goodbye.
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