In an interesting development, the beheading video has apparently brought a lot of attention to certain web hosting centers. In particular, a web hosting company in Malaysia may have considered the beheading to be the straw that broke the camels back. The following is from a web site that tracks terrorist web sites, and presumably caters to hackers that attmept to take them down…
"For two years now we have been herding the most noxious of jihadist websites out of the USA, then out of Europe, and one by one they ended up being hosted by webserver.com.my, aka Acme Commerce. Many of these sites are clearly linked to the world’s leading terrorist organizations, most notably Al Qaida and Hamas.
And each time another site would take up residence at that one datacenter in Malaysia, people would say to me:
“So now what do we do, Aaron?”
And all along I’ve said the following: All this does is create a single point of failure. One of these days the Malaysians will want to get out of the business of hosting these sites, and then a whole lot of jihadi webmasters are going be **** out of luck.
Well friends, guess what. Acme Commerce wants out. I’m happy to let the comments of Mr. Lim of Acme Commerce, to the effect that they were unaware of these sites until now, pass. I would like to give honorable mention to Malaysian opposition leader Lim Kit Siang, who urged Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s government to investigate the possibility that
“Malaysia is hosting a master network of international terrorist Web sites.”
The following is the rogues gallery of jihad sites are currently MIA, and that are or were hosted by Acme Commerce. It’s possible that some sites may reappear in Malaysia, but with Acme Commerce now on record as being opposed to hosting them, that should not be a problem.
al-ansar.biz Salafyist/pro-Qiada
ezzedeen.net Hamas military site
qoqaz.com Salafyist/pro-Qiada/Chechen Arabs
h-alali.net Salafyist/pro-Qiada
freearabvoice.org Arab anti-semitic
357hosting.com Salafyist/Jihadist web hosting co.
alsakifah.org Salafyist/pro-Qiada
islamicblock.com Hamas student union
sahwah.com Salafyist/pro-Qiada
almoltaqa.org Hamas
maktab-al-jihad.com Fans of Abu Hamza Al Masri
pages4free.biz Al Qaida fake “free web hosting” site
page4free.biz alias of pages4free.biz
hostnow.biz alias of pages4free.biz
tassmeem.net Hamas
All of these sites were using Acme Commerce’s facilities and were hosted either by Jazzira Net, a possibly London-based Saudi outfit, or by 357hosting of the Netherlands. The latter may have been subleasing server space from Jazzira Net.
In the war against terrorist use of the internet, this is a very big moment, and everyone who has contributed to or participated in the pursuit of these sites over the last two years is invited to get up from their seat for a moment and take a bow."
Some of you may have a lot more time on your hands! 