The Pirate Bay has put a new domain name into circulation. Starting this week TPB has officially switched on the Montserrat-based domain name ThePirateBay.ms. The new addition is welcome since the torrent site recently lost control over most of its active domain names.

The Pirate Bay has gone through a lot of domain changes over the past year.

When the operators found out that Swedish authorities might confiscate their .se domain as the result of a legal battle, the torrent site added six new alternatives last Spring.

In the months that followed this “hydra” was carefully destroyed as registrars and registries suspended the domain names in question. This most likely happened in response to copyright holder complaints.

Ironically, this meant that TPB was back to square one relying on the older .se and .org domains. However, starting this week the torrent site has added a new domain option.

The notorious torrent site is now also accessible from the Montserratian .MS TLD. Both the .SE and .ORG domains pointed to the new domain earlier, but this redirect has been turned off at the time of writing.

With the latest addition TPB now has three generic TLDs, as well as the .onion version which is exclusively available through the Tor network. Pirate Bay’s official forum has also added ThePirateBay.ms to the list of official domains.

Pirate Bay’s active domains



The TPB team registered the .MS extension several years ago but it hasn’t been used as a primary domain until now. Strangely enough the domain name is linked to the same registrar who previously suspended the other domains.

While TPB remains widely accessible some related issues remain. TPB’s Pirate Browser domains piratebrowser.com, piratebrowser.net and piratebrowser.org remain suspended due to an ICANN verification issue, for example.

There’s currently no known alternative domain for The Pirate Browser but the application can still be downloaded by visiting the site’s direct IP-address. Adding a new domain would be relatively easy but it appears that the TPB-crew has other priorities at the moment.

Time will tell how long the new .MS domain lasts. It’s expected that TPB’s operators will register additional domain names in the future to make sure that the site doesn’t run out of options.