KickassTorrents Has Switched Domains Again
Popular torrent site KickassTorrents switched back to a Tongan top-level domain .to this week after authorities apparently banned its Somalian address, Kickass.so. The file-sharing site had only been at the Somalian address since last November, but it appears a crackdown has forced it to move again, Mashable reports. The domain frequently rotates between different countries. KickassTorrents is one of the Internet's most popular web sites, ranked by online analytics company Alexa as the world's 68th biggest. Torrents have come under increased scrutiny after recent server raids on the popular torrent site the Pirate Bay, and investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice into sites like Demonoid and Torrentz in 2011. Mashable, Read next This Is the Most Pirated Movie of 2014, Listen to the most important stories of the day.