The website of the tiny town of Bagdad in Tasmania, Australia is being bombarded by confused surfers from around the world trying to get through to Iraqis.

Hits to the Bagdad Online Access Centre have more than doubled to 15,000 a day since the war on Iraq began two weeks ago, the website's coordinator Lorraine Bennett said yesterday.

Ms Bennett said most of the hits were messages of support meant for the residents of its namesake Baghdad, in Iraq.

"We're getting messages from Yugoslavia, Italy all over the world," Mrs Bennett told AAP.