Mininova Enters List of 50 Most Popular Sites on the Internet
Written by Ernesto on November 12, 2007Today, Mininova reached another milestone by entering the list of 50 most visited websites on the Internet. Together with most other BitTorrent sites, Mininova has experienced some massive growth over the past year, which proves that BitTorrent’s popularity continues to grow.
Making it to the 50 most visited websites on the Internet is impressive, especially if you consider that 9 out of 50 sites are local google domains. Mininova currently ranks 46th, other sites included in the lists are Yahoo!, YouTube, Myspace, Wikipedia and EBay.
To give an impression how big they are, Mininova has well over 3,000,000 visits and 16,500,000 pageviews a day, and this number is still growing. Last month they already broke the 3 billion .torrent download barrier and we will probably see the 4 billionth download pretty soon.
Niek, one of the founders of Mininova, told TorrentFreak that the increase in traffic is facilitated by the new hardware they recently installed. “The faster the site is, the more visitors we get,” he said “However, more visitors make the site slower again, so we have to keep optimizing the site and hardware all the time.”
There is also a downside to this positive news of course. Mininova’s continuing growth is, in part, due to the downtime at Demonoid and the issues TorrentSpy and Isohunt currently have with the MPAA.
Note: Alexa’s data gathering is not perfect. The exact figures may be not be completely accurate, but it is a great tool (especially the traffic rank) to compare sites within the same niche and to get a global impression of traffic shifts over time.
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75 Responses
gz mininova
I can never find what I’m looking for on mininova!
leeching of demonoid FTL!!!! i want my demonoid back!! >.<
Yay Mininova. How do they manage not to get shut down, anyway?
TPB ftw11 mininova doesnt fight with the companies like tpb does and MININOVA delete a torrent if the copyright holder sends them a c&d letter. Fucking nabs!! Brokep for president!!
Mininova != Tracker
who in the right mind will ever trust alexa’s ratings…
come on now
i miss you demonoid. that was the best community i ever experienced. i also had a 500gig 2:1 ratio that i never got to cash in:(
***The MediaDefender Bump***
From the graph, it seems that after 2 months of zero growth, MiniNova’s popularity got a huge bump in late September — right after the MediaDefender emails were leaked. Emails that ranked MiniNova as the most fake-proof torrent site. So maybe the folks at MiniNova should thank MediaDefender for their expert recommendation.
http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-decoy-effectiveness-on-bittorrent-sites-070922/
http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2007/09/15/about-the-mediadefender-leaked-emails/
[quote] “Attempted to upload to Mininova using 15 different IPs across various ranges. Was banned on every single attempt.”
- Benny Mao, on uploading fakes to Mininova
“These are very disappointing results given that people were here over the weekend. I understand that Mininova is moderating heavily”
- Ben Ebert, on attempts to upload fake Fantastic 4″ torrents
“And I know Mininova is our toughest site to get onto. but we gotta think of something.”
- Ben Ebert, on failing attempts to upload fakes[/quote]
No word yet on when MD holds its annual awards ceremony :D
ftw mininova
mininova is the main torrent index gateway it’s crawled by most of the torrent indexes.
I wonder why they don’t get any trouble :<
[quote comment="211642"]TPB ftw11 mininova doesnt fight with the companies like tpb does and MININOVA delete a torrent if the copyright holder sends them a c&d letter. Fucking nabs!! Brokep for president!![/quote]
there is quite a lot of demonoids torrents on mininova and you can get them there, Dht will find you the peers :<
demonoid shutdown was as big as the supernova shutdown. But just like when supernova shut down, users just shifted to other sites. Demonoid was one of them. And now, users will just shift to other torrent sites again. And the cycle continues. These movie outfits/record labels doesn’t seem to learn anything. It doesn’t seem to register in their head that their business model is outdated. It’s the information age and their business model isn’t fit for this era anymore. Rather than suing everyone, they should change their business model and ADAPT to the changing times.
For example, radiohead offered users the ability to download their songs in their website for a small fee. They figured, users will download them anyway, so they might as well download it from them and earn from it. Many users will choose to download a legal copy for a small fee (if they can donate for an illegal copy, they can pay a small fee instead). That is called adapting. These Movie/music executives should learn something from it.
congratulations mininova i was there when you were born. i watched you grow and wondered at your technical prowess. i like your clean style and your speed. i always find what i am looking for
more power to you, dudes
from a big fan xxx
[quote comment="211622"]I can never find what I’m looking for on mininova![/quote]
LoL, what are you looking for?
Must be some niche stuff.
When is the brain dead entertainment industry going to wakeup and smell the money.
Three billion downloads!!!!!!!! It boggles the mind that those idiots can’t see the opportunity. Three billion downloads and probably 4 billion before the end of 2007.
Lack of vision is the reason the entertainment industry is failing. It is quite ironic that the writers are on strike fighting for a bigger share of what. A product that is comatose and dying. The DVD and DVD player will soon be obsolete. It seems to me that a memory stick is the future. Download your favorite music, movie, TV show or book to stick and plug and play. What could be easier and so much more compact and environment friendly. But don’t hold your breath waiting for the idiots at the top to figure it out. They aren’t going to. It will be the geek that the jocks bullied that will have the last laugh.
We must stop the riaa/mpaa from killing sharing
That’s infringing on our rights
If they have total control you can bet that they’ll charge whatever price they like
They call it profits but we call it ripoff
Don’t be a slave fight for your freedom, they will us all kind of names from
pirates, thieves to criminal.
We call that racist or immoral.
Dear Users,
I’m TNT1289, a German administrator, one of the people associated in the Demonoid Staff to provide you with the second largest BitTorrent tracker. The CRIA had sent us a very dangerous warning as they have also threatened to sue our ISP if we don’t shut down our site. We have thought and assumed that the problem would be easily solved if we block the canadians’ users access to the website, but we were wrong. We are planning to move our servers’ to another country. However, it would be very hard, the CRIA wants to stop us and will find us where ever we move. It might take us a couple of month till we are back online, a year or never according to what we will hear from Deimos.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
TNT1289, behalf of the Demonoid staff.
AAAAAAAAA….
Months?
What we i`m going to do?
What i`m going to do?
Where is mininova hosted???
I heard a while back they are hosted in NEw Zealand :P
Vigilante mod time.
Oh no, what will WooFL do?!
[quote comment="211622"]I can never find what I’m looking for on mininova![/quote]
Get yer porn from The Pirate Bay then.
Banning sharing is perfectly intolerable. If worst comes to the worst and those morons manage get the upper hand, here is what we can do to thwart them: We can open websites where we can post lists of what we have (music, films etc.), with a search option, of course, and we can start exchanging through REGULAR MAIL! It will be a little slower, but we can still share mammoth amounths of stuff, unhindered. The IDIOTS can never stop that!
Torrentfreak, you’re a bunch of fools for using Alexa data. You know that it’s inaccurate, yet you continue to use it. Not even one of the people I know has the toolbar installed.
Get some real data for your posts.
I have to agree with the above posters regarding Demonoid. It is truly sad to see it gone… It was a great site that had a tremendously loyal following. The best part about Demonoid was the true community feel that the site had. 98% of the time you could find what you were looking for there. People also frequently posted comments that were constructive , (not just “Thanks”) so you could determine if the torrent was worthwhile. The community feel is a tremendous advantage of a private tracker, IMO. R.I.P. Demonoid, you are gone but not forgotten.
P.S. screw you CIRA!!!
where was demonoid based out of?
ThePirateBay has received a court order in Sweden.
After the new copyright laws passed in Sweden, things is a bit unclear how the trial will end.
If that site falls, I’m getting worried.
just a little info :)
i post my torrents on mininova,
but since sunday i moved to an other house (with new ip) and now i can’t upload any of my torrents on mininova :(
becouse my ip almost had the same numbers as the ip from a spammer :(
i sended a mail to the staf and i hope they will fix it soon …
Greats Maglor1212
Congrats mini, see you in the top ten soon i hope!
Where is Torrent Bay in Alexa list?!?!
Where is Pirate Bay in Alexa list?!?!
@ # 18
Go fuck yourself stupid twat.
Fuck Mininova, I wan’t Demonoid back!
mininova is NOT in the top 50… it is not even it the top 2000 it is in top 3000 sites
Alexa is worth sh#t, compete.com will give you more accurate results:
http://tinyurl.com/yuyo7q
and yea we want Demonoid back!!
life is sucks now.
no oink
no demonoid
I am lost!
ernesto you retard! are you even capable of reading? i just looked on alexa (shitty as it is) an mininova was number 68.
Mininova sucks anyways! They say that they can keep out viruses and fakes and all this bullshit, but out of 4 torrents i’ve gotten off mininova three have had viruses in them and the other was a DomPlayer fake!
You claim to be a credible news source, but you cant even get this right. Most of the time we cant see all the shit you get wrong, but this time it was easy… get a real job!
by the way mayo, compete only does US traffic, so its not at all valid.
[quote comment="211952"]Dear Users,
I’m TNT1289, a German administrator, one of the people associated in the Demonoid Staff to provide you with the second largest BitTorrent tracker. The CRIA had sent us a very dangerous warning as they have also threatened to sue our ISP if we don’t shut down our site. We have thought and assumed that the problem would be easily solved if we block the canadians’ users access to the website, but we were wrong. We are planning to move our servers’ to another country. However, it would be very hard, the CRIA wants to stop us and will find us where ever we move. It might take us a couple of month till we are back online, a year or never according to what we will hear from Deimos.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
TNT1289, behalf of the Demonoid staff.[/quote]
And then what? Take the site down again as soon as another lawyer sends a letter?
Demonoid should have made a stand for itself a long time ago, but instead they chose to run away, admitting guilt, like a bunch of criminals.
Once you start running from threats it’s very hard to stop. Even if demonoid returns I doubt it will be up for long. All it takes is sending a few letters to bring it down, “the second largest BitTorrent tracker” is the first largest joke…
Mininova could develop the same community feel as Demonoid, if people would only comment on torrents! No one ever leaves comments on mininova like they did on demonoid so you can determine if the torrent is worthwhile. Also mininova should start tracking ratios and ban accordingly to stop the filthy leechers.
I think that nobody understands bittorrent community.The idea is to spread filesharing, demonoid is good mininova is good piratebay too so 100 other torrent sites i know.Just use the one you like and visit the others when you can not find what you want.
Give power to all sites so filesharing never stop.
mininova is #35 for Canadian traffic ^_^
i find it fun to browze thru all the diff sites but i still go back to a select few when i want to find my d/loads . the bay torrent box and yes i too miss demoniod even if i was a canuck and he cut us off for no reason. also i used to use torrent spy and did like it but now when i try to turn the page i get sent to the directoty again so bye torrent spy
dammit i want demonoid 99% of the time i got what i wanted from there then i go to other torrent sites and i get scams and bullcrap leechers and shit fuck u cria
[quote comment="212280"]i post my torrents on mininova,
but since sunday i moved to an other house (with new ip) and now i can’t upload any of my torrents on mininova :(
becouse my ip almost had the same numbers as the ip from a spammer :(
i sended a mail to the staf and i hope they will fix it soon …
Greats Maglor1212[/quote]
proxy around them…
[quote comment="211952"]Dear Users,
I’m TNT1289, a German administrator, one of the people associated in the Demonoid Staff to provide you with the second largest BitTorrent tracker. The CRIA had sent us a very dangerous warning as they have also threatened to sue our ISP if we don’t shut down our site. We have thought and assumed that the problem would be easily solved if we block the canadians’ users access to the website, but we were wrong. We are planning to move our servers’ to another country. However, it would be very hard, the CRIA wants to stop us and will find us where ever we move. It might take us a couple of month till we are back online, a year or never according to what we will hear from Deimos.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
TNT1289, behalf of the Demonoid staff.[/quote]
I’m glad there’s an update on D’noid, even if the news is bad.
TNT1289, correct me if I’m wrong, but if you move outside Canadian jurisdiction say to Nigeria or Tuvalu, how can the CRIA touch you?
All you have to do is ‘hire’ new admins and the torch is passed….
Set up an LLC in one of those countries and laugh at them.
It’s not like Canada is going to pull a Clinton and fire missiles into your new server room.
As to the other comments of moving D’noid to Sealand or NL, if you -centralize- the resources you give the ‘enemy’ one big target to attack. NOT a good idea.
first of all JF, they wouldnt have to hire new admins… the internet still goes around the world last time i checked
second, they wouldnt set up in nigeria or some other third world country for a very simple reason. How much optic fibre do you think they have in Nigeria?
and lastly, why not move to Sealand… like you said, they’re not gonna fire missiles at the servers
Sweden works for this too, or some random country in eastern europe.
some ppl havnt got a clue
trackers get closed down as they bring you illegan stuff
mininova dnt have a tracker therefor its not really breaking the law is it,,
common sence now ppl..
and ppl need to stop moaning about mininova having torrents from deamonoied or other private site ppl remember mininova dnt pick u u pick it.. ppl upload to mininova . so if anything go and moan to your private sitres to stop uploading to mininova then ur torrents wont be there..
mininova rules and is bywe far the best torrent site about..
Mini is my new nova.
what if demonoid and pirate bay came together would that not complety freak out everybody.are you watching cria
[quote comment="213827"]Mini is my new nova.[/quote]
Mine too.
[quote comment="211952"]Dear Users,
I’m TNT1289, a German administrator, one of the people associated in the Demonoid Staff to provide you with the second largest BitTorrent tracker. The CRIA had sent us a very dangerous warning as they have also threatened to sue our ISP if we don’t shut down our site. We have thought and assumed that the problem would be easily solved if we block the canadians’ users access to the website, but we were wrong. We are planning to move our servers’ to another country. However, it would be very hard, the CRIA wants to stop us and will find us where ever we move. It might take us a couple of month till we are back online, a year or never according to what we will hear from Deimos.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
TNT1289, behalf of the Demonoid staff.[/quote]
TNT1289 is, nor ever was, a member of the Demonoid staff. He doesn’t speak for us of for Deimos. In fact, the only one who speaks for Deimos is Deimos.
TF is the absolute worst place for news of any kind, except maybe for just how tiny Ernesto’s penis is.
For OFFICIAL news on Demonoid, there are three places to look:
http://www.demonoid.com
http://www.subdemon.com
http://www.demonoiders.com
(^^ All maintained by the Demonoid Admin or real Staff. ^^)
Lets go all the this forum and we make Demonoid strong as ever!!!!!
and lastly, why not move to Sealand… like you said, they’re not gonna fire missiles at the servers[/quote]
There are a lot of places where they could move and where they will not be shut down. Where the cable connexions are or are being upgraded
Think of Asia…..It just takes some organizing and time.
The more resistance, the better !!
mininova rules ……….!
Any place far away from the commercial and political influences of the US and Canada would be good. How ’bout the Cayman Islands?
Dear Users,
I’m TNT1289, a German administrator, one of the people associated in the Demonoid Staff to provide you with the second largest BitTorrent tracker. The CRIA had sent us a very dangerous warning as they have also threatened to sue our ISP if we don’t shut down our site. We have thought and assumed that the problem would be easily solved if we block the canadians’ users access to the website, but we were wrong. We are planning to move our servers’ to another country. However, it would be very hard, the CRIA wants to stop us and will find us where ever we move. It might take us a couple of month till we are back online, a year or never according to what we will hear from Deimos.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
TNT1289, behalf of the Demonoid staff.
_______________________
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Just so you ALL know:
The above quote is bullshit, and this bug-fucking little shit is just some CRIA suit, with a bad come over and a 32yo. virginity…
Wise the fuck up, and stop believing in these spamming dick-weeds…
Demonoid should move to either Venezuela or Iran. Let’s see anyone pressure the governments of these two countries to shut them down. Talk about sticking it to the R.I.AA.
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Mininova is awesome!
Just found a great new site, wanted to share it. http://www.Torrentstorage.com The site is set up just like Demonoid, now we just need some uploaders to join and we can have Demonoid back, sort of.
wonder when the MPAA will go after Mininova
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