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TorrentScan Shuts Down Voluntarily

Ernesto — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:14:15 +0000

TorrentScan, one of the oldest BitTorrent meta-search engines, has shut down voluntarily.

A few months ago the site moved from the torrentscan.com domain to tscan.mg and a few hours ago the site stopped working.

“Tscan is now permanently closed,” a message on the site’s homepage now reads.

In addition to the website the Twitter account was also deleted.

The site’s owner informed TorrentFreak that he is no longer motivated to maintain the site.

“I decided to close the site due to a lack of interest and time. There are more important things for me right now,” he told us.

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TorrentScan.com Shut Down Due to DMCA Violation

Ernesto — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:44:52 +0000

Mavol, the owner of Torrentscan.com was stunned by the action of his hosting company (softlayer), but up until now he didn’t receive any explanation for this bizarre action. To make things even sillier, his other sites like imgboot.com and showip.be which are hosted on the same server are also taken down, and those sites aren’t even remotely related to BitTorrent.

Mavol immediately decided to relocate the site to a new server. His friends at http://btjunkie.org/ were kind enough to help him out for now. It might take some time for the DNS to update, but in the meantime TorrentScan.com can be accessed here.

Mavol is not the most lucky guy when it comes down to finding a good webhost. Only a few month ago he got screwed over by his (former) webhost who hijacked his domain, and took off. Let’s hope he has more luck with his next webhost, so things can get back to normal soon.

Update: Mavol resolved the dispute with the hosting company, they took the site down for “investigation”, but it’s now back up.

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Top 20 Less Known BitTorrent Sites

Ernesto — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:48:24 +0000

So what is “Less Known”? Well, we used the Alexa ranking as our criteria, all the sites in this list are not in the top 5000 (5000 most visited sites on the Internet). The order of the sites is random, and the list includes some meta search engines as well.

Do you know a relatively unknown public BitTorrent site that should be in this list? Put it in the comments.

01. torrentvalley.com

02. yotoshi.com

03. extratorrent.com

04. bitenova.nl

05. torrentscan.com

06. fenopy.com

07. smaragdtorrent.org

08. torrentat.org

09. fulldls.com

10. worldnova.org

11. spynova.org