Demonoid Coming Back - UPDATE
 

Demonoid Shows Sign of Life on New .HK Domain

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After the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack July last year, the site’s servers in Ukraine were pulled offline.
Local authorities explained that Interpol asked them to take action as part of an investigation into the site’s alleged owners in Mexico.

In the months that followed the Demonoid team remained silent and the site itself showed absolutely no sign of life, simply timing out. Now, however, something has changed.

All of a sudden the Demonoid.me domain started to respond again. Initially it displayed a “nothing to see here” notice, and a few hours later it redirected to a new demonoid.hk domain.

The new Hong Kong domain was registered about a month ago and is currently displaying a “403 Forbidden” HTTP status code. The new site appears to be hosted in Hong Kong as well, where we saw the Demonoid tracker return before.
The tracker has gone up and down a few times since then and is currently offline.

Demonoid.hk

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While there’s absolutely no guarantee that Demonoid will return in the near future the recent developments clearly show that something is going on behind the scenes. The restart of the tracker at a new hosting company, paired with the new domain showing some response, offers hope to those who miss Demonoid dearly.
The last time we heard from one of the Demonoid admins was September. At the time we were told that there is “nothing interesting to report yet.”

“I hope there will be one day, but it might not be soon,” the tech admin added. Perhaps that day is coming closer now?

In many ways the current situation is reminiscent of the downtime Demonoid suffered half a decade ago. During the summer of 2007 the site shut down its servers after receiving legal threats from the CRIA. After being offline for six months the site eventually reappeared in full glory early 2008.
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Good Luck to Demonoid on their comeback.
& watch this section for further updates. ;)

re: Demonoid Coming Back - UPDATE
 

Hope they come back. Also hope i wont have to re-reg there. I been with them for a lot of years :)

re: Demonoid Coming Back - UPDATE
 

Yeah I also hope they come back SOON too.

re: Demonoid Coming Back - UPDATE
 

Oh yeah??? wanna apply for a job on there? then you can join the rest of the staff from Demonoid in the Mexican prison.... :p :crackup:

There is only 1 working Admin left and he is struggling, as he is not a fully trained Admin. Ive offered to help him, but he is nervous of everyone now & I dont blame him... ;)

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No thanks.

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Demonoid Breaks Record with 6 Month Downtime


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This week it’s been six months since Demonoid went offline.
With more than half a year of downtime Demonoid breaks the previous record it set in 2007/2008.
When Demonoid went down at the end of July the site’s admin initially blamed a DDoS attack

In the days after the raid things went from bad to worse and the site’s Ukrainian hosting provider eventually pulled the plug.
This action followed a request from Interpol, who assisted Mexican authorities in their criminal investigation into the BitTorrent tracker and its operators.
Fast forward six-months and Demonoid is still offline.

However, there’s still a possibility that the site may eventually return.

The hope of Demonoid users was fueled when the tracker briefly returned, as well as by the recent switch to a new .HK domain.
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Well folks time will tell whether Demonoid can indeed make a comeback once again. I personally think, that the only sole surviving Admin left on there, is struggling and wondering if the stress is all worthwhile. I think he should just "lie low for a while", before he tries anything else, he also needs to ask himself -where all these DDoS attacks are coming from???,,,, just like Kim from Mega, he thought his server went down because of such a demand of new members coming in, - yeah right...... ;)