Rett,

Your suspicion may be well founded. The emergencydonations site is
linked from http://www.gov.lk/ (but not directly from other government
sites nor even the bank handling the transaction). The International
Red Cross seems to be back up online:

http://www.icrc.org/
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_helpicrc_personal_donation

Alex

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, rett <rett@...> wrote:
> >The Sri
> >Lanka Government seems to recommend sending donations via the
following:
> >
> >http://www.emergencydonations.gov.lk/
> >
>
>
> This looks very good, thanks. However I went into the Sri Lankan
> embassy websites in both Stockholm and the US and neither linked to
> or mentioned this site. That makes me a bit hesitant to use it,
> however official it looks. Can anyone confirm that this really is the
> official site? I'd like to spread this link by e-mail, but want to be
> 100% confident first.
>
> best regards,
>
> /Rett