Demonoid Tracker Is Back, Will the Site be Next?
Written by Ernesto on February 19, 2008It has been three months since the popular (semi)private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went offline. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about its future, and many feared that the site would never return. Totally out of the blue, however, the tracker is now responding again.
The frontend of Demonoid is still hosted in the US, together with the popular Subdemon forums. Interestingly, the tracker - which has been offline for months - is now hosted in Malaysia, and has started to respond again, approximately 30 hours ago.
It is of course not clear what this all means, but without an official message from the Demonoid team, speculation has started. Could it be that the site has found a new host, and preparing a return? Many former Demonoid members are secretly hoping that this is indeed the case.
Last December, Deimos, the founder and main admin of what used to be one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, posted a message on the Subdemon forums on the possibility of a return. At the time he wrote: “Money is an issue, but the real problem at the moment is finding a suitable place to host the website. There has been no luck there. And there’s some personal stuff I need to take care of that takes most of my time at the moment, and that does not help.”
For those who forgot, here is a recap of what has happened so far. The trouble for Demonoid started back in June, when the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN started to put pressure on Demonoid and their ISP, Leaseweb. Deimos decided that the Netherlands wasn’t the safe haven it used to be and he to moved the site to Canada, which resulted in a few days of downtime.
Deimos never really told the administrators or members of the site exactly what was happening. Initially, most members assumed that there was some hardware failure, but after a few days it became clear that Demonoid was more or less forced to move. Maybe there could have been hardware failures too, who knows, but the outcome was the same - Canada here we come.
Relocating the servers to Canada initially solved the problems, but, by the end of September Deimos took Demonoid offline for the second time. Again, nobody knew what was going on until we found out that the CRIA was responsible for the downtime, which was later confirmed by Deimos. It turned out that Canada wasn’t the best choice after all.
After 5 days of downtime the site returned, now blocking all traffic from Canadian users in an attempt to calm down the CRIA. At first it looked like the storm was finally over, but on November 9th Demonoid’s users were welcomed by a disappointing message on the frontpage explaining that the CRIA was indeed responsible for the downtime.
So will Demonoid ever return? The fact that the tracker is back online, in a different location seems to suggest that there is something happening.
Update: February 20, tracker offline again after 3 days uptime.
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i hope demonoid is returning its been lonely in p2p without them =(
DEMONOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what about here?
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Now inferno.demonoid.com resolves to 127.0.0.1
Demonoid is dead and buried, sorry to inform you…
Come back baby!!!
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for those who say demonoid is dead
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It will be back, the server has been up and down for days. Why would it go up at all if there were no intentions of bringing the site back. Something is going on, and it will be back within a month. I bet my right testacle :)
I love torrent freak , it’s my heart!
long life TF
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I’d like to say please come back demonoid,
no other torrent site is like it.
try indonesia, here every software is pirated..
who knows..
what other site is best for comics. I cant find anything like Demoniod and now all this crap with z-cult. Where should I turn
what other site is best for comics. I cant find anything like Demoniod and now all this crap with z-cult. Where should I turn
can i has old ration?
…i wish demoniod only punish those who download and use demoniod without giving back rather than punish those who are loyal but dont have time to always be online downloading torrents
i was one of those loyal users but i lost my account because im not a torrent freak. i hope they fix the system and only judge you when you are using torrent and not because you couldnt access your computer or such
it sucks because the current demoniod system has good intentions but then its not considering those who arnt torrent freaks and cant always be downloading but are loyal and do seed :(
demonoid isnt all that great
[quote comment="296486"]demonoid isnt all that great[/quote]
What r u talking about. as far as I know there is no demonoid available at all. They are not punishing people for not sharing they are down. I shared over a hundred gigs and thee in no magical site still running for good ratio sharers.
[quote comment="296173"]…i wish demoniod only punish those who download and use demoniod without giving back rather than punish those who are loyal but dont have time to always be online downloading torrents
i was one of those loyal users but i lost my account because im not a torrent freak. i hope they fix the system and only judge you when you are using torrent and not because you couldnt access your computer or such
it sucks because the current demoniod system has good intentions but then its not considering those who arnt torrent freaks and cant always be downloading but are loyal and do seed :([/quote]
Quoted wrong person, sorry.
What r u talking about. as far as I know there is no demonoid available at all. They are not punishing people for not sharing they are down. I shared over a hundred gigs and thee in no magical site still running for good ratio sharers.
im horny
someone satisfy me
thank u
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Black, white - it is not different
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when will be online pls i need this torrent back
When i can log on and get my appz, movies, tv shows, and PS2 games ……….
I’ll believe it.
Until then R.I.P
I am very happy to see that the Demonoid Web style of torrent access, has been revived by torrentstorage.com The site has used the Demoniod style for accessing torrents I thought Demonoid has returned
Very impressed with the site. It has a lot of new features that Demonoid did not have. I will enjoy watching this site grow. Lets wish the site the best of luck.
http://torrentstorage.com/
Great news - but I disagree with the person who said that they hope they take action against those with 0.3 ratios.
In my experience, sites which demand super good ratios are virtually always extremely un-user-friendly. I know so many people who have spent weeks seeding stuff on those kinds of sites only to still be banned because nobody wants to download it. You spend more time just trying to download crap you don’t want just as a ratio boosting exercise than actually enjoying the stuff you’ve downloaded!
The main thig to be said for private sites in reality is the sheer range of stuff they have - e.g. indie music with Oink, or 80s films with Demonoid. That’s what they have/had over stuff like the public trackers, not the seeding, which is usually fine even with isohunt.
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