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  • Pirate Bay Back in Sweden’s .SE After .GY Suspension

    Pirate Bay Back in Sweden’s .SE After .GY Suspension

    Just a day after the troubled torrent site found a new home in Guyana, the site’s new .GY domain has already been suspended. The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, has decided to return to the relatively calm waters of Sweden for the time being.
    Today The Pirate Bay returns to its Swedish based .SE domain, after a domain hopping exercise of little more than a week.

    Yesterday The Pirate Bay switched over to Guyana’s .GY ccTLD, where the torrent site wasn’t welcome either. Within a day of thepiratebay.gy becoming operational the local registry has already taken it offline.

    “Once a site violates our policies, it will be suspended,” the registry noted in a statement. A brief inspection of the registry’s acceptable use policy reveals that linking to copyrighted material is sufficient to warrant a suspension.

    After the .GY domain was lost a few hours ago The Pirate Bay moved back to its old home, thepiratebay.se. The site is expected to remain in Sweden’s relatively calm waters for the time being.

    The return to the .SE domain is noteworthy, as this domain is also at risk of being seized.
    The good news for The Pirate Bay, however, is that the .SE domain registry previously stated that it will not suspend the domain name unless there is a court order. This means that Sweden should be a safe haven for now.

  • The Pirate Bay Moves to .AC

    The Pirate Bay Moves to .AC

    Pirate Bay users were shocked to discover that their favorite torrent site was no longer loading. tpb-logo

    Without warning the nameservers were removed from thepiratebay.sx domain, making it impossible to load the site in places where DNS entries were not cached.
    Following pressure from the entertainment industry the domain registry of Sint Maarten appears to have seized The Pirate Bay’s .SX domain name. The torrent site itself hasn’t been taken down and has quickly relocated to a new address on Ascension Island’s .AC ccTLD. The Pirate Bay team informs that this UK-controlled domain isn’t their final destination and they will sail to a safer haven in the near future.
    The Pirate Bay website itself remains online, however, as the site’s operators quickly relocated to thepiratebay.ac, which uses Ascension Island’s ccTLD.
    Without warning the nameservers were removed from thepiratebay.sx domain, making it impossible to load the site in places where DNS entries were not cached.

    The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, continues to be accessible through the new .AC domain, although only briefly since the ccTLD is UK controlled.

    But there may be switch to .pe soon !

    “The AC domain is directly connected to the UK, so it’s just a quick stop there,” a Pirate Bay insider told us. After solving some technical issues the infamous torrent site plans to move to the Peruvian .PE ccTLD.

    ThePirateBay.pe will be the fifth domain name for The Pirate Bay in 2013.