The world’s largest file-sharing website Pirate Bay has changed its Web domain to Greenland’s ‘.gl’ after allegations that Sweden may soon seize the page’s ‘.se’ extension.

The Pirate Bay switched to a new domain name overnight, with the measure set to become permanent. It will redirect the site’s guests to the new homepage automatically. Users who were blocked in the past now have another chance to visit The Pirate Bay, as the website is set to be operating from fresh IP addresses.



The Swedish authorities’ alleged threats are in fact based on a real case last year, when the p2ptv.se domain was seized over illegal livestreams of hockey and football games.



The measure may be most frustrating for copyright holders and Internet security forces that battled the file-sharing website over the past year, removing over 870,000 urls from Google and attempting to keep the page’s content blocked.



The domain change is not the first measure The Pirate Bay took to escape prosecution this past year.



In February, the Swedish Pirate Party handed over hosting of The Pirate Bay to sister parties in Norway and Spain after the country’s copyright lobby sent a letter threatening criminal charges. In early 2012, the site switched from the ‘.org’ to ‘.se’ extension to stay outside the reach of US authorities.

