Wikileaks launches 355 mirror websites; none available in .am domain

WikiLeaks has asked the Web community to open mirror sites so it cannot be downed or censored and said Monday that 355 new sites are already up, Cio.com reported.

"Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack," the group said on its website. "In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help."

The site is asking people with Unix-based servers and excess hosting resources to answer its call. WikiLeaks' entire website "should not take more than a couple of GB at the moment," it said.

Mirror sites are additional websites that have all of the same information as the original site and are updated automatically each time the original site adds new content. WikiLeaks hopes the new sites can ensure the survival of the mass of leaked documents, videos and other data it has collected and published.

None of Wikileaks new websites is available in .am domains.