Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down?

secmartin writes "HavenCo, the self-proclaimed data haven located on the micronation Sealand, appears to be offline. Their website is down, and there have been no announcements from either HavenCo or Sealand. HavenCo has been covered here before; it was mostly known for offering hosting of content that might be illegal in other countries. Does anyone have news about what happened to them?"

Obligatory..

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdotted.

Well,

[Skiron]

...according to that Netcraft screen dump in the link they have changed from Linux (I also presume apache) to MS IIS server... no wonder they appear to have sunk.

Re:It's not exactly a surprise

[Linker3000]

"You couldn't host anything really inflamatory"

Maybe someone did - and that's the real cause of the fire!!

Re:Sea Boundaries

[Pikiwedia.net]

That's why Sealand needs nuclear weapons, prefarrably deployed in several nuclear subs spread out around the oceans. Actually, I can hardly think of any nation with a greater need for nuclear weapons than Sealand. No army, not recognized my other states. Mutally assured destruction is their only way to truly uphold their souvereignity.

Re:Sea Boundaries

[LynnwoodRooster]

Wonderful! Then there isn't a single sovereign nation outside of the US - not a single nation could actually stand up to the force the US can project...

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And of course Monaco, Lichtenstein, Andorra, Malta, and the Isle of Man are but figments since they're not sovereign, either.

Re:Sea Boundaries

[multipartmixed]

> Wonderful! Then there isn't a single sovereign nation outside of the US - not a single nation could
> actually stand up to the force the US can project...

What about Iraq?

Re:Replace to words and things become interesting

[halcyon1234]

That's the ~95% which are not mayor nuclear powers.

Wait, they're handing out nukes to municipal governments now? I don't know what it's like in your town, but the vast majorities of the mayors around here are factory-sealed with 98.5% pure batshit-grade insanity. I barely trust my mayor to run a furniture store, let alone an apocalypse.

Re:Sea Boundaries

[halcyon1234]

I used to do a lot of boating/fishing in the Delaware river near where you speak... [it] is the most filthy industrial wasteland for miles around.

sooooo... that'd be fishing for fun and not for food, then? Or am I speaking to Mercury McSevenToe?

Re:Sea Boundaries

[jeffmeden]

...This court ruling, an act of jurisdiction, establishes that we do not have jurisdiction over the territory for which we are passing jurisdiction. In other news, Rule #1 at sealand is: There are no rules! Rule #2 is "See rule #1", and oddly enough Rule #3 is "don't piss off the Germans"...

Re:Replace to words and things become interesting

[jeffmeden]

If your replace UK/Russia with USA then ~95% of all countries become "not sovereign".

I think the list is currently broken down something like this:

Nuclear capability ~ sovereign
No Oil ~ sovereign
Pissed us off in the past ~ NOT sovereign
Can't prove that there are no terrorists around ~ Really Really Not Sovereign

Re:Replace to words and things become interesting

[NekSnappa]

Well the beauty of municipal level government is that there is a good chance that the mayor does run a furniture store.

Re:Sea Boundaries

[negRo_slim]

that doesn't mean that Noglorpistan has magically become a country.

Unfortunately I believe you are correct. But for how much longer will we sit idly by while valiant Noglorpistanese freedom fighters wage war for their own sovereign lands! I say the time has come for western nations to longer turn a blind eye on the plight of the Noglorpistanese people.