Iceland has closed down a website believed to be used by the jihadist organisation Islamic State, according to the authority responsible for the country’s Internet domain name ‘.is’.
‘ISNIC has suspended domains that were used for the website of a known terrorist organisation,’ the Internet in Iceland Inc authority said in a statement late Sunday.
The site ‘khilafah.is’ -- which ISNIC said was run by a group calling itself Islamic State -- was traced back to a web hosting company on the island nation at the weekend and was believed to have been online since mid-September. Several other websites with the name ‘khilafah’ -- or caliphate, an Islamic state which IS militants claim to have established in parts of Iraq and Syria -- already exist in other countries with other domain name endings, including ‘.com’ and ‘.org’ and without clear links to the group.
‘ISNIC has suspended domains that were used for the website of a known terrorist organisation,’ the Internet in Iceland Inc authority said in a statement late Sunday.
The site ‘khilafah.is’ -- which ISNIC said was run by a group calling itself Islamic State -- was traced back to a web hosting company on the island nation at the weekend and was believed to have been online since mid-September. Several other websites with the name ‘khilafah’ -- or caliphate, an Islamic state which IS militants claim to have established in parts of Iraq and Syria -- already exist in other countries with other domain name endings, including ‘.com’ and ‘.org’ and without clear links to the group.