Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:54:44 +0100
From: Denis Simonet <
denis.simonet@piratenpartei.ch>
To:
pp-leaders@pp-international.net,
wikileaks-koord@pippin.bash.info
Subject: [Wikileaks-koord] Pirate Party Switzerland and wikileaks.ch
(summary)
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Hi all
There is some confusion about how the wikileaks.ch matter happened. This summary might be helpful.
Pascal Gloor (our vice chairman) and I met Julian Assange 3 weeks ago in Geneva. The subject was the announced request for political asylum. We explained Switzerland, our federalism,
+the direct democracy and how to deal with our administrations. That's it, we didn't mention wikileaks.ch. Also we don't have contact information to directly reach him. It is quite
+hard to get in touch with Wikileaks, it isn't impossible though. But it might take a few days.
So how did the wikileaks.ch story happen? The explanation is simple: We registered wikileaks.ch about 6 months ago. Since then it was redirected to the Wikileaks content. What happened
+yesterday was a unilateral decision of Wikileaks to push wikileaks.ch as the official domain on Twitter. We were not informed about that and quite surprised that a journalist called
+and asked for details about Wikileaks moving to Switzerland.
Because of the high media request load there was a press conference yesterday evening. It was recorded with a cell phone, you will find the video on youtube soon.
Some minutes ago I got good news: Switch, the registrar for .ch domains, told us that there is no reason to block wikileaks.ch. Because we configured 5 nameservers in Switzerland
+nothing can happen anymore. wikileaks.ch will be available forever

.
I'm available for questions, Jabber (
SciFi@jabber.ccc.de) or eMail.
Kind regards,
Denis
Denis Simonet
Präsident der Piratenpartei Schweiz