Torrentz Faces Hostile Domain Takeover
Written by Ernesto on November 05, 2008Torrentz.com, the largest BitTorrent meta-search engine on the Internet, is currently dealing with a hostile attempt to take over the site’s domain name. The admin of Torrentz has posted a message to all its users to inform them about the situation, and is optimistic that the issue will be resolved soon.
With over a million daily visitors, Torrentz.com is among the most frequently visited websites on the Internet but unfortunately, this has made it a target for scammers. By misleading the domain reseller and registrar with a fabricated story and fake ID, one such scammer is trying to take over the Torrentz.com domain.
Flippy, the admin of Torrentz told TorrentFreak: “We’re not sure what happened really, but it appears that someone is trying to take over our domain, claiming his email account was hacked.” Flippy is confident that the issue will be taken care of soon, but a backup of the site is in place at torrentz.eu in case the impostor succeeds.
Earlier this year, Torrentz celebrated its 5th anniversary, which makes the site one of the longest standing in the BitTorrent sphere. Over the years, the site has evolved from a site hosting .torrent files, to one of the fastest meta-search engines, indexing millions of torrents.
It is expected that Torrentz wont suffer any downtime because of the takeover attempt, so most users wont notice anything out of the ordinary, except from the notification at the top of the website.
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wtf. what will the jackass(es) get if they succeed really? it’ll just move and be fine as ever.
oh and Obama rules
err, the domain?
then they can host porn and ads, or whatever.
He has already succeeded, and it’s the actual owner attempting to get it back.
Without TPB where would we be? It mightn’t be the best, but it SURE aint the worst.
I also second the motion that OBAMA RULES and I might just add that M.C.KANE SUCKS ASS!
Torrents needs more work. It is slow to update, looks somewhat dodgy… Overall it could be ALOT better.
It’s still my No. 2. My precious, precious, No. 2.
Come here No. 1! Come to PaPa! That’s right Demonoid, you’ll ALWAYS be No. 1! Except when your down. Which is… every second day of the year?
Ramble much.
Take your ritalin, #4.
I’ll say it again… ScrapeTorrent is better..
Without TPB?
Umm.. I’m going to guess still full of content, (Content does not originate from TPB retard) and more users probably….
Torrentz.com Come back!!!
:’(
Demonoid pretty much = TPB you goddamn moron. Yes it’s a tracker and indexer but the majority of highly seeded torrents are external … which means TPB.
They both suck ass anyhow. Big dogs balls are in their mouth.
> err, the domain?
> then they can host porn and ads, or whatever.
If he was smart, he’d just add porn adds to the site itself, through the use of some kind of frame, or something.
That might keep people going to the original domain.
Off topic in reply to the comments, The “demon torrent” has some GREAAAAT stuff that you just cant find on other trackers and is extremely hard to even find using “other p2p networks”.
My membership at demoniod is one of my most valued memberships.
People will do anything to bring others down. Greed i strong hopefully no one else will be subject to this type of scam.
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Well whats up with this shit?Happend to that popular bol makeuseof.com and now this.
I use Torrentz, but sometimes it misses stuff on Mininova and other sites. It’s not that the torrents are too new and haven’t been indexed at Torrentz yet either. I’ve found torrents on Mininova that months old, but which don’t show up on Torrentz.
torrentz is the real thing and flippy is a genuine filesharer
i sincerely hope he keeps control and his baby is not snatched
if there is anything we can do to help then let us know
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Wow thats really shit for torrentz!
Greeetz Pete – http://www.torrentin.com
That sucks.
His registrar even offers an ID shield/privacy protection service. He should consider using it.
Maybe some Media Defenders chode smoker trying to pick them off. Lame even for anti-p2p.
Stay strong flippy!
VeryBadMan – http://www.thePandoraCollective.com
torrentz is down atm scammer must have succeeded
I think I got it back for now. He forged US documents, which is a felony. I made him realize that. More news on Sunday.
find it here now http://www.torrentz.eu
well if he really TAKES OVER then we can just tell everyone NOT to use this site and his whole ordeal will be as worthless as he is. Then we can all go to the backup site and be merry!
the eu domain is down also :O
I swear it was up yesterday,
oh noes!
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