The 5 Most Popular BitTorrent Trackers
Written by Ernesto on September 24, 2007Most BitTorrent sites don’t run their own tracker, and the ones that do often go unnoticed and don’t always get the respect they deserve. It might not be a surprise that The Pirate Bay is by far the most popular, but you might be surprised to find out which trackers complete the top 5.
The sites are ranked based on the total number of seeders and leechers on the tracker.
1. thepiratebay.org
peers: 5.164.500
torrents: 636.734
2. demonoid.com
peers: 3.138.042 (estimated)
torrents: *no info*
3. denis.stalker.h3q.com
peers: 1.353.421
torrents: 195.586
4. sumotracker.org
peers: 1.256.358
torrents: 130.693
5. torrentbox.com
peers: 1.144.100
torrents: 40.818
The Pirate Bay and Demonoid take up the first two spots, and it has been like that for over a year. The three remaining sites in the list are perhaps not that well known to the general public, even though most of us use their trackers nearly every day.
One of the least familiar sites from this list is probably SUMOtracker. It’s pretty impressive that they made it into the top 5, especially as the tracker has only been running for a few months. We took this opportunity to ask the administrator of SUMOtracker and SUMOtorrent some questions to find out what drives someone to keep a project like this running.
TorrentFreak: Most BitTorrent sites don’t have their own tracker nowadays. Why did you choose to start an indexing site and a BitTorrent tracker?
Sumo: The SUMOtorrent team members have been involved into the BitTorrent community since the very beginning, and we noticed that there was really few public BitTorrent trackers nowadays, affiliated to an indexer or not. After Mongo56 and BitTorrent-Support closed, there was only Pirate Bay’s tracker remaining out there. Our team initially started the SUMOtorrent project to fill this gap and developed an open source BitTorrent tracker: SUMOtracker. While it was still in development, we decided to launch SUMOtracker with a PHP tracker, which then evolved into a C++ tracker to support today more than 1.2 million peers.
TorrentFreak: What kind of hardware keeps SUMOtracker and SUMOtorrent in the air?
SUMO: SUMOtorrent and SUMOtracker are running on 5 servers at the moment:
- SUMOtracker is running onto a dual-core 3.2 Ghz with 2GB of RAM, 10 mbits/s dedicated line
- SUMOtorrent is running on 4 servers:
We will scale the architecture for both sites everytime is required, and our next scheduled upgrades include a second server for SUMOtracker and front-ends and dedicated servers for the new services, such as torrent mail alerts
TorrentFreak: SUMOtracker tracks over a million peers already. How did you manage to grow this fast?
SUMO: We were very surprised to see that our tracker reached such a high number of peers this fast! In part this is because of our good relationships with other BitTorrent websites. The tracker started growing very fast after some very popular sites, Mininova for example, recommended us as a reliable public tracker. Then, about 2 months ago, we decided to go even further by adding SUMOTracker as a backup tracker (i.e. by adding it to the announce-list of torrents) for all public .torrent files, so when the original tracker is out of service, users could still use the torrents.
TorrentFreak: Do you think you can ever outgrow the untouchable Pirate Bay? Or do you have a different agenda?
SUMO: I don’t think so, for a very simple reason: SUMOtracker is not a site that intends to compete with other BitTorrent trackers. The site and the tracker are just our contribution to the community! Hence, our purpose is absolutely not to make SUMOtracker outgrow other trackers, but to work with other webmasters to make the BitTorrent network stronger. A concrete example of our way of thinking: SUMOTorrent not only adds SUMOTracker, but also other public trackers like Pirate Bay to the announce-list. So any torrent with SUMOTracker as backup also has Pirate Bay as a backup tracker.
We also shared the source code for this feature to other BitTorrent sites. Monova.org or FullDls.com for example, are using a similar method! And if there are new public BitTorrent site starting, we will also support them and integrate them!
TorrentFreak: Does SUMOTorrent have any features that other BitTorrent sites don’t have?
SUMO: We freshly launched a new service that I believe to be unique as of today: torrents mail alerts. Without any registration, users can simply put their email address in a box and they will receive by email an alert by email when new torrents are available for their search keyword. We believe it will be useful to users, more than RSS2 or search RSS as not everybody has a RSS client, while everybody has an email address!
TorrentFreak: Can you reveal something about new features and or improvements you are working on at the moment?
SUMO: Yes sure! I think the next big evolution of SUMOtorrent will be the multilingual version. Some other cool features we are working are related to the user experience.
We are also working on core features: even stronger protections to fight against spam and fake torrents, improving the quality of results, the speed of the site…
TorrentFreak: Sounds great, anything to add?
SUMO: Since we started, SUMOtorrent has always been dedicated to the community. We partnered with FileSoup.co.uk and we are working closely with several webmasters, which are “good friends”: Mininova, Fenopy, FullDls, myBittorrent, Bitoogle, Yotoshi, Monova, … We are part of that group of sites that really focus on the user, and we will continue with our current means to provide the best service to users!
TorrentFreak: Good luck with the tracker and the site, we could use more initiatives like this.
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[quote][quote]I find that impossible to believe. 62% of the internet certainly isn’t blocked to me.[/quote]http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2281/gkrellshoot092707154631wo9.jpg
Heh, maybe I am misinterpreting it or something…[/quote]
Blocking 62% of IP ranges doesn’t mean you’re blocking 62% of the desirable places on the internet. It’s entirely possible that upwards of 95% or more of the inbound pings you get in some torrents are from “bad” fake-mongers and MPAA address harvesters — do you want to connect to that traffic, or do you want to “block 95% of the internet” at that point?
can anyone send me an invitation code for demonoid?
Bullshit! Go to http://www.mediadefender.com/antipiracy.html and you will meet Denis Stalker.
And what’s about torrents.ru? It has 120000000 - 150000000 peers and 150000 torrents…
Super Fundo is the shit, if you guys don’t know now you do! these torrents are released by the greats, people that take the time to make shure that if they are releasing it onto you computer that it is real and not something that is going to creat a cramp in you freedom or your expensive computers!
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969 is fake. Every time I have downloaded something that has that tracker in it the movie won’t play or the file won’t work.
wpnt mcpfayuo spvx iwlmejks euvfiz sjtg jmyue
@48:
Its not. If we would be fake, why would thepiratebay use our software? See http://opentracker.blog.h3q.com/?p=33
http://replicaguards.com/replica-handbags/replica-gucci-hobo-handbags.php
8.556.721 peers (3.606.575 seeders + 4.950.146 leechers) in 913.968 torrents on tracker.
3 months and 3.5 millions peers, 300k torrents increase.
Demonoid has been shut down.
RIP Demonoid
try
http://www.SceneLeech.Org
[quote comment="250001"]try
http://www.SceneLeech.Org/quote
require an invite to join.
:(
tracker tuga fixe e com boas velocidades e novidades todos os dias
http://www.spazhome.com
aprovetem esta aberto torrents fresquinhos
Visit http://www.maxneeds.hostsnake.com and lets make this tracker even bigger :)
[quote comment="191029"]Ok The Pirate Bay is at the top and has been for ages now. Personally I much preferred Torrentspy before it banned U.S. users and cut off all comments.
But I really would like to know, If so many people are using ThePirateBay, then why do I rarely find the Torrents Im searching for. Anything obscure I can hardly ever find on TPB, but I find it easily on Demonoid though I cant get it there, and on others Ill find it, but get swamped in SPAM popups. What is up with The Pirate Bay?[/quote]
I Agree…Although I Knew About The Existence Of [I Never Used] TPB For As Long As TS Existed.
On The Other Hand…TS Had So Many Fake Files. U Rarely See That On TPB [I Haven't At Least]
I’m Still Furious W/TS For Shutting My Access To Their Service Overnight With No Previous Explanation…I’m Still Hoping They Blow Up…I Can’t Tolerate The Stupidity Nether…If We’re All Compromised, Then Lets All Get Burned Together. But Their Choise Was To Act Like Queers ‘N’ Run Away From The Fire. We Don’t Need That Kind Of Weakness.
Not Me At Least… I’ve A 350GB HDD [That I Have Been Sharing For Years] At Almost Max Capacity.
A Gmail Account ‘N’ A Laptop Plus A Desktop With Loaded W/ More Stuff To Organize ‘N’ Later On Share.
I’ve Been Trough Napster, Winmx, Kazza, Emule ‘N’ Now Ares. Is It Fair To Me That 10 Years Of Sharing Get Trowed Out The Window When TS Decides To Feel Scaraed??? I Don’t Think So.
By The Way…I Know I Got Off The Main Subject. Freedom Of Speach…lol
given that its p2p it shouldnt matter really, the servers just indexing for the rest of it. and the rest of it is done by the users
New torrent tracker
http://nikito.su/forum
peers: >14.551
torrents: >5.734
new and nice torrent tracker:
http://www.passion-webcam.com
FullDls.com one of the biggest virused warez sites out there. The fact that the muppets at sumo have more fake files than anyone else, and the fact they have tons of spyware/trojan ads all over the place speak volumes.
Companies like this are nothing short of leechers..in so much they take, take, talk crap and add nothing but fake files and viruses to an already beliquered bit torrent network…the sooner sumo can be flushed out the better..they prey on people being stupid/gullible enough to download and to open there 10’s of thousands of fakes….so yeah 130 k all fake torrents sounds about right, from a crap traker and even crapper indexer..stay away from them, and use trackers you know are safe.
R.I.P SUMOTORRENTS
plz plz plz plz plz plz invite me !
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