@2 - They don't appear to have had any trouble keeping DNS running. We definitely would have noticed. It's making their web services slow, and their blog is down completely. In our experience, EasyDNS has been a very good provider.
I am super confused. Why would Wikileaks supporters want to target the DNS provider for WikiLeaks main domain? I feel there is something basic I am missing here.
@6 - Oh, sorry, you're right that's not clear. EveryDNS was one of the providers who pulled their service from WikiLeaks under pressure, so they were targeted for that.
All the essential stuff is already running in secure channels on Secure stacks in IPv6, not on your IPv4 public space.
If your DNS provider can't keep some nameservers up even under DDoS, you deserve whatever bad things happen because you chose a bad provider.
We've been using IPv6 stacks with Secure layers on top for a while now.
(source: Government Computer News, you fascist pig)