Has wikileaks over extended their reach because they “think we are popular now, lets make a political stand� We think so.

Local Bellevue Washington business eNom and Demand Media are in trouble with wikileaks, who are calling for a boycott of the company. What happens when a domain registrar gets in trouble? Not much of anything if seeing the past history of domain registration from OpenDNS issues, to “Domain Tasting†and the host of other ills that plague the Internet.

On the 28th of February, 2008 while everyone was paying attention to the WIKILEAKS.ORG censorship case, another Wikileaks domain, WIKILEAKS.INFO, was unlawfully locked and seized. The censoring company was domain name registrar eNom, Inc of Bellevue, Washington. eNom is the second largest registrar of domain names with 8.6 million internet domains names under its “control”.

eNom was also cited in the March 4, 2008 edition of New York Times this week for censoring a Spanish travel company with flights to Cuba.

Wikileaks successfully wrested back control of WIKILEAKS.INFO on March 6, 2008. However the behavior of eNom was egregious and without apology. On the back of this event and the New York Times article, Wikileaks decided to investigate the company. Source: Wikileaks.org

Not likely that the boycott is going to go that far, but eNom and Demand media, with offices in Bellevue do need to do some PR damage control. The investigation is interesting, but meaningless. Not that anyone is going to come to anyone’s aide here, but look at the reality of being a domain registrar. Not an easy job, filled with various take down notices and site freezes from Judges. Come on wikileaks, you saw this in your own case.

Is it really the smart idea right now to go after eNom? Right after you got frozen out by Dynadot? What is your purpose here? What are you hoping to gain, what are you revealing about the company that is not already known? Where are the secrets?

Or have you corrupted yourself by taking on a cause, rather than just dealing with information now that you have a little popularity?

We think corruption here is rife, make a case, not a cause.

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