OTTAWA  It is not clear if the mistake first appeared on a blog or flitted around in a Twitter message. But whatever its source, it swept Mark Jeftovic and his company, EasyDNS, into both sides of the storm over corporate support, or the lack thereof, for WikiLeaks.

When Mr. Jeftovic took a look at his e-mail on the morning of Dec. 3, he was surprised to find a critical comment from a customer over his company’s decision to no longer provide domain name hosting for WikiLeaks. While EasyDNS has about 55,000 customers, Mr. Jeftovic knew that the company, which is based in Toronto, did not count WikiLeaks among them.

A quick Google search made the comment less puzzling. Several blogs and Web sites had posted variations of this sentence: “EasyDNS.net has cut off DNS service to WikiLeaks.” (DNS refers to the Domain Name System, which is something like a switchboard for the Internet.)

WikiLeaks had indeed lost the support of the company that was providing the connection between the domain name wikileaks.org and the WikiLeaks Web servers. But that company was EveryDNS, a free provider based in the United States.