Kim Dotcom's new filesharing website Mega forced offline The United States accuses Dotcom, a 38-year-old German national who legally changed his name from Kim Schmitz, of fraudulently making more than $175m from Megaupload and related websites. It wants to extradite him to face charges of money laundering, racketeering, fraud and online copyright theft that could see him jailed for up to 20 years. Mr Dotcom is next due in court in March. The case against him has been delayed by procedural irregularities, including an admission by John Key, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, that his communications were unlawfully wiretapped. Mr Louembe said the domain name had been allocated to someone in France who had then transferred it to Dotcom. The minister said an investigation by his staff had found the site was set up to redirect traffic to another site hosted in France that would provide access to shared files. The site, which had previously displayed a holding page with a message saying that "on January 19 this button will change the world," was unavailable on Wednesday. Mr Dotcom said on Twitter that he was the victim of a US-led "witch hunt" but was not concerned at Gabon's move. Don't worry. We have an alternative domain," he tweeted to his 150,000 followers. This just demonstrates the bad faith witch hunt the US government is on. Dotcom did not reveal the alternative domain name.