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Demonoid tracker is finally back

Three months ago the immensely popular torrent tracker Demonoid was taken offline but it seems that many hopeful have something to cheer about as the tracker is responding for the first time since the take down.

Curiously, the the new tracker is hosted in Malaysia while the actual frontend of Demonoid and its subforums are still hosted in the US.



There has been no official word from the Demonoid admin team so for now this could purely be coincedence, but there is the possibility that the site has found a new Malaysian host and is preparing a comeback.

A few months back, Deimos, the lead admin for the site said there was a possibility for return but hope has been fading as the months past. “Money is an issue, but the real problem at the moment is finding a suitable place to host the website. There has been no luck there. And there’s some personal stuff I need to take care of that takes most of my time at the moment, and that does not help," Deimos said at the time.

We will keep you updated.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 19 Feb 2008 17:12

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• 33 comments

• bomb12guy

  Finnaly !!!!! i Love u demonoid

  19.2.2008 18:14 #1

• WierdName

  Well that's nice and all, but when will the site be up? Been trying to find something and can't get it anywhere.
  
  EDIT- er, anywhere, not anyways...

  19.2.2008 18:31 #2

• Tarmo78

  The site is currently down.
  If you wish to visit the forum created to keep the community together, click here to continue.
  
  Please note that the forum is NOT FILE SHARING RELATED IN ANY WAY.
  Please read the rules before posting.
  
  Still down...

  19.2.2008 18:43 #3

• amf0802

  This is saying the tracker is back up, not the site itself. That basically means that if you still have a torrent from Demonoid, you could start your torrent client and it would respond and work normally.
  
  This doesn't mean the site is back up and functional.

  19.2.2008 19:00 #4

• DoomLight

  blah. i want the site. it actually had alot less fake torrents on it than the other sites

  19.2.2008 19:10 #5

• furrya

  yes , .....steal dawn

  19.2.2008 19:42 #6

• camaro17

  well i dont care because i cant get an invite, and i cant ask here!
  
  Peace

  19.2.2008 20:07 #7

• n80r

  just wait. you dont need an invite to get in, demonoid always has open registration i didnt get an invite and i was still able to join. and if i remember correctly there is a program out there that can show you a list of torrent sites that have open registration and that can teel you when demonoid is open for registrations or you can just check the site everyday. but only if demonoid comes back! please demonoid please please come back!heres hoping this is one step forward in the right direction

  19.2.2008 20:48 #8

• n80r

  edit

  19.2.2008 20:48 #9

• tripplite

  YEs YES YES
  MWAHHAHAHAHAAAAA
  
  PERFECT PERFECT WORLD DOMINATION IS CLOSE AT HAND!!
  
  BTW the tracker is the heart of the system, once that up the other parts will slowly come back too, you can't do anything without the tracker, know they just need a server.....

  19.2.2008 21:23 #10

• xugiua

  Originally posted by camaro17: well i dont care because i cant get an invite, and i cant ask here!
  
  Peace
  it's closed/open enrollment, you have to go there on fridays to get an account, the rest of the week it is a closed site.

  19.2.2008 22:12 #11

• wolf123

  That is so sweet.
  
  This is the one site that was the easiest too make a torrent.
  
  I will love it when it's all back because there was 1 and 1million you would get a fake movie.
  
  Plus no damn password in rar files you know they are fake ISO hunt.

  19.2.2008 22:17 #12

• WierdName

  Originally posted by n80r: just wait. you dont need an invite to get in, demonoid always has open registration i didnt get an invite and i was still able to join. and if i remember correctly there is a program out there that can show you a list of torrent sites that have open registration and that can teel you when demonoid is open for registrations or you can just check the site everyday. but only if demonoid comes back! please demonoid please please come back!heres hoping this is one step forward in the right directionExactly. No need to be one of those losers going around asking for an invite, just catch it on an open-registration day. That's how I got in. Then I got into another truly private site but I haven't been able to access it lately, then demonoid went down, and now I have to use CRAPhunt... Too much fakes on that site.

  20.2.2008 01:08 #13

• ringwar

  Why don't you guys use rapidshare type sites.

  20.2.2008 07:09 #14

• B33rdrnkr

  Originally posted by n80r: just wait. you dont need an invite to get in, demonoid always has open registration i didnt get an invite and i was still able to join. and if i remember correctly there is a program out there that can show you a list of torrent sites that have open registration and that can teel you when demonoid is open for registrations or you can just check the site everyday. but only if demonoid comes back! please demonoid please please come back!heres hoping this is one step forward in the right direction
  what site are you referring to that tells you when sites have open registrations?

  20.2.2008 07:38 #15

• vinny13

  Ahh it's a miracle... That is like the greatest public site ever :)

  20.2.2008 07:58 #16

• wabashman

  well i just hope that all of our accounts are still there once the site is up and running. i wouldn't be to happy if i had to start from scratch, i had a ratio of around 95. but i guess it wouldn't be to bad to start over, at least i have my site back.

  20.2.2008 11:31 #17

• n80r

  Quote:what site are you referring to that tells you when sites have open registrations?its a program that i actually got from demonoid :) its called ORC v1.2 Torrent Shared
  
  Originally posted by wabashman: well i just hope that all of our accounts are still there once the site is up and running. i wouldn't be to happy if i had to start from scratch, i had a ratio of around 95. but i guess it wouldn't be to bad to start over, at least i have my site back.if you got and look on sub demonoid it says that all accounts will be restored to the way it was before the site went down

  20.2.2008 14:04 #18

• wabashman

  if you got and look on sub demonoid it says that all accounts will be restored to the way it was before the site went downwell good deal. i can honestly say though that i've read about ohh three forum posts on the 'site'

  20.2.2008 14:13 #19

• n3v3rD1e

  Not working so far. Demonoid is played. Not worth all the hype and don't know why it gets so much. Fangirls must love its name, ya' know, the "demon" part, ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, cool AND scary. . . . . . NOT!

  20.2.2008 15:25 #20

• buzzardt

  Originally posted by n3v3rD1e: Not working so far. Demonoid is played. Not worth all the hype and don't know why it gets so much. Fangirls must love its name, ya' know, the "demon" part, ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, cool AND scary. . . . . . NOT!But then as it says I am A Newbi and don't know what I am talking about..

  24.2.2008 21:48 #21

• bubamara

  bring everything to me! I wanna host DEMONOID server and tracker! Everything is posible in SERBIA!!!
  Bring it to me!!!! As quick is it posible and then the DEMONOID will be UP AGAIN!!!
  LONG LIVE SERBIA, land of freedom and democracy!!!!
  
  Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
  
  We are not afraid of CTRT, APT, CPT, DRM, EPA, AAPE, and all others fulls and creeps!!! They are ZERO for us!!! PIRACY ROOLS!!!!
  
  I meen it!!! Bring it to me!!!!

  27.2.2008 16:04 #22

• tripplite

  Quote:Not working so far. Demonoid is played. Not worth all the hype and don't know why it gets so much. Fangirls must love its name, ya' know, the "demon" part, ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, cool AND scary. . . . . . NOT!
  ya its fair to say you were banned for being an idiot....
  

  
  

  27.2.2008 16:26 #23

• brickjv1

  Word has filtered down that the authorities tracked down Deimos when he tried to move the site to Malaysia. A front was allegedly set up in Malaysia and Deimos fell in the trap. Word is the tracker was never up legitimately, only to track IPs for demographic information for analysis of the nature of the BitTorrent problem, and to disseminate IPs to the authorities in those countries interested in prosecution. This info came from a knowledgable source on the official #demonoid channel on irc.p2p-network.net. Stay safe, fellow P2Pers.

  13.3.2008 02:17 #24

• tripplite

  Quote: Word has filtered down that the authorities tracked down Deimos when he tried to move the site to Malaysia. A front was allegedly set up in Malaysia and Deimos fell in the trap. Word is the tracker was never up legitimately, only to track IPs for demographic information for analysis of the nature of the BitTorrent problem, and to disseminate IPs to the authorities in those countries interested in prosecution. This info came from a knowledgable source on the official #demonoid channel on irc.p2p-network.net. Stay safe, fellow P2Pers.
  the authorities knew who and where they were...why set up such a trap?
  that source is not too knowledgeable go to subdemonoid and read the current stuff....subdemonoid is the offical source the rest is just lies and hate!
  
  -tripplite
  

  
  

  13.3.2008 18:31 #25

• varnull

  Enough of us are members and aware of the goings on to make all this bleating totally redundant. Hi tripp.. you a DD member? hunt me out and pm me :lol:
  
  Those of us in the know enough have had invites to the relevant places where we wait patiently for developments. Certainly the one place you won't hear all this shouting about demonoid is on the forums set up to keep the proper members together until normal service is resumed. It may be a much more private community than previously.
  

  
  
  Free open source software = made by end users who want an application to work....

  14.3.2008 01:55 #26

• skopas

  Yeah, that site was the only respected non-virus, super friendly torrent site. Everything could usually be found there. I've been with the Demon since 04'. Im crossing my fingers..toooo.:)

  19.3.2008 00:44 #27

• borhan9

  It is good to have them back.

  9.4.2008 19:44 #28

• jemaric

  site is back up awaiting everyone

  11.4.2008 21:28 #29

• tripplite

  YES BACK ITS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! w00t w00t!
  
  i am the happiest man alive:)
  

  
  

  11.4.2008 22:38 #30

• pcrazy99

  I didn't even know they were back! I check their site every few days and I almost fell out of my chair when it pulled their site up!

  11.4.2008 22:59 #31

• varnull

  OK.. and the last thing we need is it shouting from the rooftops with 1000,000,.00000000 google hits overnight bringing the mpaa and riaa down on us again.
  
  I can confirm that the site and tracker are back up and now working.
  The site is rather out of sync with the tracker, but should catch up soon.
  
  So please if you want to spread the good news pm your friends, or say thanks be.. but no shouting the site name all over the place bringing the man on top.
  

  
  
  Free open source software = made by end users who want an application to work....

  11.4.2008 23:15 #32

• skopas

  I totally agree with last poster. Keep the site on the lowdown and maybe the feds wont ride with the hype. Demon coming back was huge for the torrent community.

  13.4.2008 23:48 #33