Famous torrent site The Pirate Bay has just formed a new dark web site, or to say, modified its current hard-memorizing onion link to an easy-rememberable one. Well, the reason for this switch isn’t clear yet, but it’s attractive.

The Pirate Bay, an infamous site for most and the highly targeted site for Governments. Users flock around Pirate Bay to get links and downloads of copyrighted content for free. This makes it be involved in illegal business and is subjected to many allegations periodically.

This led many authorities to take the site down often, yet, the Pirate site was raining from its ashes anyway. It’s been subjected to downtime every now and then and has hundreds of mirror (proxies) sites that are interlinked to each other.

TorrentFreak has reported that the owners, on yesterday, has detected an unusual downtime of their onion site for few hours. Upon investigating, it’s revealed that they have been switching it from the ugly uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion to a new piratebayztemzmv.onion site. So, mark it up. This shall be the new site!

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Why Onion?

Onion sites are respective to Dark web, a place where authorities find it difficult to trace someone. With that simple and major drug dealers, weapon sellers, illegal content hosts etc would settle there in dark to go unnoticed by regulators. Pirate Bay is one of among and should be staying within Dark Web if wanted to stay alive.

Ditching .org Domain

The .org domains are maintained by the Public Interest Registry, which is controlled by The Internet Society. Last week, The Internet Society has announced its plans of selling its Registry to a private equity firm called Ethos Capital. This transaction shall have a clear impact on .org sites.

If you have understood the relationship, you must be knowing that Pirate Bay seems to be in risk of being delisted. As it’s now carrying an official site with .org TLD (thepiratebay.org) for 15 long years, and this move can potentially make it possible for that private firm to pull the site off if ordered by any Government.

Source – TorrentFreak