Pretty much all sites of a respectable size are targeted on occasion by unknown sources, and today several large sites appear to be hit.

TV-torrent group EZTV told TF that they are dealing with a serious flood of unwanted connections, which renders the site unavailable.

EZTV has currently no indication when the site will return, but they will do all they can to solve the issues as soon as possible.

Around the same time as EZTV’s problems started, KickassTorrents went down too. TorrentFreak asked the Kickass.to team for more information on the outage, but we have yet to hear back.

Whether KickassTorrents’ problems are also DDoS related is unsure at the moment. At the time of writing the site’s DNS servers are not resolving to an IP-address either.

As if that’s not enough, Extratorrent ran into trouble as well. Earlier today the site had some downtime, but a cached version is currently being served through Cloudflare.

We will update this article when more information becomes available.

Update: EZTV has returned, KickassTorrents is still having problems.

Update: Extratorrent is having issues again and released the following statement.

Update: Kickass.to appears to be coming back slowly. The KickassTorrent’s team confirmed to TorrentFreak that they have been dealing with a series of DDoS attacks.

Update: EZTV is down again.

“Extratorrent servers are under strong DDOS attack right now… We are trying to resolve issues. Sorry for inconvenience. Your support is highly appreciated.”

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The site’s Facebook page claims the issues are due to an ISP blockade. However, this is unlikely to explain the worldwide outage unless they are referring to the site’s own hosting provider or domain registrar.

“Can’t load Extratorrent.CC ? Some ISPs blocked the website and restricted access to EXTRATIORRENT.CC domain name. We trying to resolve it!,” the status message reads.

TorrentFreak has asked ExtraTorrent staff for some additional details, but we have yet to hear back from them.

For now the site’s IP-addresses, such as http://195.144.21.16/, are still up and running. Various ExtraTorrent proxy sites, including extratorrentlive.com, work just fine too.

From what we have seen so far ExtraTorrent’s issues appear to be DNS related. The site has updated its nameservers today, but at the time of writing the domain name is not resolving to an IP-address.

Considering that the servers remain operational, it’s probably only a matter of time before the extratorrent.cc domain, or a new alternative, is back up.

Update: After roughly half a day the ExtraTorrent domain is working again. There are still some issues as the static files such as images are not loading everywhere.

Update: ET informed us that they had issues with their hosting provider. They switched DNS but that doesn’t propagate immediately, hence the downtime issues.

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