A U.S. controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been ordered shut down by a U.S. federal judge at the request of a Swiss bank and its Cayman Islands subsidiary, site’s owners said yesterday.

San Mateo, California-based Dynadot, which hosts Wikileaks.org, the controversial site, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in California to remove all DNS entries for that domain and “to prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court.”

The order comes after a Swiss bank, Julius Baer, earlier this month filed a complaint against the site and Dynadot for posting several hundred of the bank’s documents. Some of those documents, posted by a former bank employee, allegedly reveal that Julius Baer was involved in offshore money laundering and tax evasion in the Cayman Islands for customers in several countries, including the U.S.

Wikileaks has been put under fire since its inception in 2007, as confidential documents belonging to some institutions have been posted on the site. Critics also have questioned the motives of the site’s founders. However, many others have praised the site for supporting the free dissemination of information.

“The order was entirely written by Cayman Islands Bank Julius Baer lawyer and was accepted by Judge White without amendment, or representations by Wikileaks or amicus. The case is over several Wikileaks articles, public commentary and documents dating prior to 2003,” Wikileaks said in an e-mail statement, according to Agence France-Presse.

In addition, in a press statement on its site, Wikileaks called the U.S. order “clearly unconstitutional” and said it “exceeds its jurisdiction.”

Despite Court’s order, Wikileaks states that it will ”keep on publishing, in fact, given the level of suppression involved in this case, Wikileaks will step up publication of documents pertaining to illegal or unethical banking practices.”

A representative for Julius Baer could not be reached for comment Monday.