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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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.
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