Demonoid Tracker Moves to Ukraine
Written by Ernesto on March 16, 2008Demonoid, once one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, has reappeared again, this time hosted in Ukraine. The website is still down but the trackers are now fully operational again, perhaps a sign that Demonoid is crawling back up to speed?
In June 2007 Demonoid was pressured to leave their host in the Netherlands, mainly because of legal threats from the Dutch anti-piracy outfit, BREIN. The site then relocated to Canada, but after threats from the CRIA, it decided to shut down there as well.
A month ago we reported on the brief resurrection of the Demonoid tracker in Malaysia. At the time we hinted at the possibility that the site could perhaps be planning a comeback. Unfortunately the tracker went offline again after a few days. With no official response from the Demonoid team, it remains a mystery what the reason behind the resurrection was.
Now, a month later, the Demonoid tracker is again responding. Just over a week ago, Demonoid torrents began to work again, this time being tracked from Ukraine.
The new host of inferno.demonoid.com is the Ukrainian ISP Cocall Ltd, while the frontend of the site still remains in the US. Again, there is no official explanation for the return of the tracker, although many hope that it’s a sign that the site will be fully up and running soon.
Last December, Demonoid’s founder Deimos spoke about the future of the site: “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.” Perhaps he now found his safe harbor in Ukraine?
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What did you have for dinner last night>
What colour is JPG> anyone? i need to open a JPG file, image of king. But the torrent told me that it is not .JPG he says to me, i am GIG? so where i go? up or down?
Helps please
Kow Yound
P.s Big help
Good news,
I hope heard that demonoid was being hosted in a phone box in Manchester? Is this true?
@2
nah you frekling halfpipe, where you at? thempltevilla?
prove of to another island pipe!
Well, fingers crossed :D
Yayayayayayaya!
Well, this is the news i have been wiating form, after they would not look at me or smell my bag!
I win, tree hive loose
WHATS A DEMONOID?
NOW THEY ARE USING THESEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
thnx for the great news dude, i m really so excited after reading the post.
oh yeah baby, come back!
Interesting..
we can at least see that they are making attempts to come back.
i’m sure they’ll get things straightened out sooner or later.
Hail the Demons!
not smart…but anyway welcome
Since when is Ukraine prefixed with ‘the’ all the time…
Demonoid was like torrentspy, full of ads & virus, i don’t care they are coming back or not.
Mininova always at the TOP !
and some private torrent sites.
Still, good luck Deimos & Welcome Back :)
[quote comment="312534"]Since when is Ukraine prefixed with ‘the’ all the time…[/quote]
dumb americans tbh
This is good news indeed, I hope it will come back. It’s been my one and only source of any material I would seek.
I have a question though: how can you test that the tracker is working? I’ve deleted all my torrents from Demonoid and apparently I can’t get new ones since the frontend is down… I guess the only way is to have old torrents available?
[quote comment="312541"]This is good news indeed, I hope it will come back. It’s been my one and only source of any material I would seek.
I have a question though: how can you test that the tracker is working? I’ve deleted all my torrents from Demonoid and apparently I can’t get new ones since the frontend is down… I guess the only way is to have old torrents available?[/quote]
If you search Mininova you will find thousands of Demonoid torrents.
Great news
And there was much rejoicing.
[quote comment="312534"]Since when is Ukraine prefixed with ‘the’ all the time…[/quote]
Since every country is usually considered ultimate to their own name. “The” is used to say that the noun is authoritative (or owner) of it’s name. For example, if you were the only Nick , we would refer to you as the Nick. But since you are not we refer to you as the Asshole.
I hope the little green guy makes a full return, he’s been missed!
[quote comment="312538"]Demonoid was like torrentspy, full of ads & virus [quote]
Ooooo-k, Dimmy…
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