shamu726 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 KickassTorrents, one of the largest torrent sites, relocated to a new domain name today. As part of their "annual domain rotation" the site traded in its Kickass.to address for the Somalian Kickass.so. The site's operators aren't commenting on the move but it could be instrumental in circumventing various anti-piracy measures, at least temporarily.With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is one of the most used torrent sites. In recent months it has even rivaled The Pirate Bay in terms of traffic.Over the years KAT has moved from domain to domain on a few occasions, to evade law enforcement and pressure from the entertainment industries. Most recently the site had been operating from the Kickass.to domain.Starting today however, the site is serving its pages from the Somalian TLD Kickass.so.Wondering whether the site may have run into issues with the .to registry we contacted the KAT team for further details. “It’s just annual domain rotation,” we were told in a brief reply.An additional announcement posted on the site today assures the site’s users that there is nothing to worry about.“We are moving to kickass.so now. As you know we change our domain regularly. Nothing more has been changed for you, so don’t worry, you can use Kickass as usually, it’s automatically redirected,” the KAT team writes.Intended or not, the domain change will have some consequences on the anti-piracy front. For example, the site will become accessible again in most countries where it has been blocked previously.In addition all the URLs that were blocked by Google through DMCA notices, more than 1.6 million, will become accessible again under the new domain. This also means that Google’s new downranking algorithm will be bypassed, at least temporarily.In recent weeks KAT has lost a significant amount of traffic due to Google’s new anti-piracy measure, so intended or not, that may be an extra incentive to keep the yearly domain rotations going.Source: TorrentFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Kickass the :king: ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 So it did...so it did. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iih1 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 KICKASS.SO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackieo Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 once you find your fave websites, you dont need google to search anything, you just go directly to the site and search it there.google can go screw themself.KAT Kicks Ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 ♫ ain't that a kick in the...ass! ♫ :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbaker Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 kickass.so..............already blocked in UK by ISP BskyB!!!Viooz, which Sky blocked on 12 March 2014Megashare, which Sky blocked on 12 March 2014Watch32, which Sky blocked on 12 March 2014Zmovie, which Sky blocked on 12 March 2014Solarmovie, which Sky blocked on 4 December 2013Tube+, which Sky blocked on 4 December 2013Primewire, which Sky blocked on 21 November 2013Vodly, which Sky blocked on 21 November 2013Watchfreemovies, which Sky blocked on 21 November 2013Project-Free TV, which Sky blocked on 21 November 2013Yify-Torrents, which Sky blocked on 21 November 20131337x, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Bitsnoop, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Extratorrent, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Monova, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Torrentcrazy, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Torrentdownloads, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Torrenthound, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2014Torrentreactor, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Torrentz, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Ambp3, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Beemp3, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Bomb-mp3, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Eemp3world, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Filecrop, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Filestube, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Mp3juices, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Mp3lemon, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Mp3raid, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Mp3skull, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Newalbumreleases, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013Rapidlibrary, which Sky blocked on 30 October 2013EZTV, which Sky blocked on 25 July 2013First Row Sports, which Sky blocked on 25 July 2013Download4all, which Sky blocked on 20 May 2013Movie2K, which Sky blocked on 20 May 2013Kick Ass Torrents (KAT), which Sky blocked on 21 March 2013Fenopy, which Sky blocked on 21 March 2013H33T, which Sky blocked on 21 March 2013The Pirate Bay, which Sky blocked on 30 May 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iih1 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Domain Checkhttp://www.whois.com/whois/kickass.sohttp://www.whois.com/whois/kickass.soAs you know https://kickass.sodomain was blocked today. Website moved to www.kickass.to but it seems that some users report problems with entering it. To help you we found a proxy website kickass.dotpirate.meSource Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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