The Pirate Bay has switched to a new domain name again in the matter of days – from thepiratebay.ac to thepiratebay.pe, and has revealed that the new system they are developing will make the domain name system completely ‘irrelevant’ thereby closing the loophole of domain takedowns forever.

Just a couple of days back The Pirate Bay (thepiratebay.sx) went down with hundreds of thousands of its users not able to access the torrent search site giving rise to speculations and rumours that the site may have gone down completely. However, within a few hours The Pirate Bay was accessible again, but through a ‘.AC’ domain name.

It is believed that the registry of Sint Maarten, which handles the .SX domain names and falls under the jurisdiction of Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, may have been forced to seize thepiratebay.sx domain. The ‘.AC’ domain (Ascension Island) is under direct control of the UK and it is just a matter of days before that domain is also seized considering how strong the anti-piracy groups are in the country.

Understanding the impending danger on thepiratebay.ac, The Pirate Bay has now moved to .pe domain and has also revealed that this is just a temporary switch. The team is working on a BitTorrent-powered browser that will enable users to store and share files with other users without requiring a central hosting thereby eliminating the need for a domain name completely.

“They should wait for our new PirateBrowser, then domains will be irrelevant,” an insider told TorrentFreak.

“Once that is available then all links and sites will be accessible through a perfectly legal piece of browser software and the rest of it will be P2P, with no central point to attack via the legal system.”