It’s been a while now since the BitTorrent giant The Pirate Bay is offline worldwide while only thing which users can see when visiting the domain is CloudFlare cache along with an alert that “This page is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare always online technology, you can continue to surf the snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version.”

Although, ThePirateBay’s dark web version that runs through Tor on Onion link is up and working; reports are that Cogent Communications, a multinational internet service provider based in the United States has blocked the new IP-addresses of TPB provided by Cloudflare.

Cogent also blocked TPB’s IP addresses last month following a court order. However, CloudFlare was quick to assign unique IP addresses to The Pirate Bay which allowed the domain to stay online, but things took a wrong turn when Cogent blocked CloudFlare’s new IP addresses resulting an outage in several countries around the world since yesterday.

It’s unclear how long it will take for CloudFlare to assign new IP addresses to The Pirate Bay; it is evident the site will bounce back online sooner or later. Remember, this is not the first time when The Pirate Bay is going through difficult times. In fact, from the beginning, the platform has been under the wrath of law enforcement agencies.

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Last year, ThePirateBay was forced to give up their SE domain name after a Swedish Court ruled that the two domain servers, ThePirateBay.se and P irateBay.se will be taken from the company and since then ThePirateBay.se has been working as ThePirateBay.org.

Update:

It looks like CloudFlare has assigned new IP addresses to the website since The Pirate Bay is back online for users worldwide.

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