In anticipation of having their Swedish domain name seized, this week the crew of The Pirate Bay took evasive action. In the early hours of Tuesday morning they switched to two Greenland-based domains, but already the plan is starting to unravel. The telecoms company in charge of the .GL TLD says it will now block the domains after deciding they will be used illegally.

Sweden has long been associated with The Pirate Bay.

The site was founded by Swedes, operated by Swedes, not to mention hosted and proxied by Swedish companies, activists and the local Pirate Party.

Under increasing pressure those links were strained by political and legal red tape to the point where the site’s only visible connection with Sweden was its .SE domain.

This week even that connection was placed into history when fears over the long-term viability and possible seizure of the domain led the site to choose an alternative.

Over the course of Monday night and Tuesday morning, ThePirateBay.se became ThePirateBay.gl, with the new TLD denoting Greenland, a huge country with a tiny population of just 57,000 people. But now, less than 48 hours later, the latest plan to bring domain stability to The Pirate Bay already requires a Plan B.

Exact timing is unclear, but very soon the site will lose use of both its .GL domains after Tele-Post, the company responsible for .GL registrations, said it would not allow them to be put to “illegal” use.

“Tele-Post has today decided to block access to two domains operated by file-sharing network The Pirate Bay,” the company said in a statement received by TorrentFreak.

Those domains are ThePirateBay.gl and PirateBay.gl.

“We observed Tuesday that the domains had been activated and therefore immediately contacted our lawyer,” the company added.

The announcement was short on detail but at the moment Tele-Post seem set to justify their decision based on an earlier Danish Supreme Court ruling that rendered The Pirate Bay an illegal site. Greenland is a self-governing province of Denmark.

Currently The Pirate Bay’s .GL domains remain operational but the site is redirecting to its .SE domain, at least for the time being.

A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak earlier this week that they have plenty of domain names in reserve. With that in mind, it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if the torrent site makes another domain switch in the near future.

Update: Queries to the .GL domain registry now confirm that both the domains in question have been officially suspended.