Little affected by last week's "temporary restraining order" slapped on Wikileaks, a website that allows whistleblowers to release obscured corporate and government documents for public scrutiny, users can still access the site's documents though its IP address (88.80.13.160) as well as domain names including wikileaks.ws, wikileaks.be, and wikileaks.cx.

Several online news agencies had reported that Wikileaks had faced a ban from the California government last week, causing the domain name wikileaks.org to become unavailable. However, the judge hearing the case had altered his statement of imposing a "permanent ban" on Wikileaks to a "temporary restraining order"; in any case, this called for the site to erase its traces from all servers.

The outcry had followed a complaint by legal representatives of Bank Julius Baer (BJB), a Swiss bank. They accused Wikileaks of having leaked confidential information and details about tax evasion and money laundering by BJB clients in Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States. The lawyers described Wikileaks' existence as "illegal", and that it had no right to publish stolen documents submitted by people.

Wikileaks started operations in December 2006 and remained low-profile until it created a furore by bringing the corrupt actions of ex-Kenyan leader Daniel Arap Moi and his family into the public eye. The website has reportedly gathered 1.2 million leaked and contributed documents since its launch.