A few weeks ago, major torrent website Kickass Torrent was reported to be removed from its domain server in Somalia. While previous reports didn’t mention as to how the website was actually taken down, new word claims that a Japanese company GMO Registry was behind KAT’s removal from the .so domain.
KAT has been moving from one domain server to another in order to avoid authorities from entirely shutting the website down. While Somalia is a hotspot for different kinds of pirates, KAT thought thatmoving its website there was a good idea. The only problem was that they are not aware of GMO Registry’s access to the domain server’s back-end controls. As a result, the company found and blacklisted Kickass torrents a couple of months after it was transferred from its former domain server in Tonga.
Shortly after being blacklisted in Somalia, KAT was able to reactivate its website on a Tongan domain server. However, it’s only a matter of time before it is pulled out again and become inactive for good. Some reports claim that the website already has almost 2 million blocking requests. This could mean that KAT would have to find another domain server, or become crippled like Pirate Bay if authorities fail to eliminate it entirely.
Just a few months ago, The Pirate Bay has gone offline after Swedish police force had taken the server computers that make the website functional. IsoHunt managed to get most of its fragmented database and TPB seem to have used that to make their comeback a few weeks ago. For now, TPB is back online and serving all kinds of downloadable materials to various users.
For now, Kickass Torrent remains the topmost active torrent website, despite that they have recently transferred from one domain server to another. Pirate Bay, on the other hand, have lost its position as the most visited website for downloaders after being down for a few months.
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