The torrent-sharing websites like The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents continue to employ the tactics of changing domain names to stray away from the copyright cases and anti-piracy advocates.

The Pirate Bay has now started redirecting its users to the .ORG domain after a new ruling from a Swedish court endangered its .SE domain name. On 12 May, the court ruled that ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se, two Pirate Bay domains registered in Sweden, would be confiscated as they were infringing copyrights on a massive scale.

The notorious website was founded back in 2003 with thepiratebay.org as its main point of access and it emerged as the king of the pirate world. Since then, the website is fighting one lawsuit after the another and trying to exist under different domains.

While the Supreme Court is yet to make the final decision regarding the future of .SE domain name, The Pirate Bay has shown quickness in going back to the good old .ORG domain name.

It’s amusing to notice that The Pirate Bay initially left the .ORG domain name because if feared some action from the US.

Here’s a timeline of The Pirate Bay’s domain name shuffle that took place over the past 4 years:

In 2012, The Pirate Bay moves from .ORG to .SE

In 2013, The Pirate Bay switches over to .GL

The Pirate Bay moves to .IS

The Pirate Bay moves to .SX

.SX suspended, The Pirate Bay moves to .AC

The Pirate Bay moves to .PE

.PE suspended, The Pirate Bay moves to .GY

After few days, The Pirate Bay comes back to .SE

Due to lawsuits, The Pirate Bay launches six ‘hydra’ domains at once

Out of the six, .GS and .AM suspended in upcoming months

In 2015 end, .LA, .GD, .MN, .VG were lost as well

The Pirate Bay comes back to .SE

Adds .MS domain that gets suspended soon

The Pirate Bay left with just .SE

Finally, decides to move back to .ORG

Let’s see what the future holds for this pirate ship.

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