New Attack on BitTorrent sites launched!

**Jared Moya** · January 12th, 2006, 09:08 AM

***UPDATE: Thanks to all our readers and the readers on Digg and other blogs for your support! A rep from GoDaddy has Called and "cleared up the misunderstanding" they Will restart the DNS services for MyBitTorrent.com and allow MyBittorrent to freely transfer to another registry of their choice. Again the power of Blogging has prevailed! *** Godaddy did the right thing!

With over 1000 Bittorrent sites registered to it it seems to be a really stupid move on godaddy.com part to start banning them and even going as far as to hold their domains hostage but that is exactly what they are doing.

First site to have been hit by their new war on bittorrents was mybittorrent.com but considering server other large bittorrent sites are registered with them we are sure more will fall prey soon. As far as we know of at least 3 other top bittorrent sites:

torrentspy.com

mininova.org

isohunt.com

are also registered with godaddy.

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**Hooah** · January 12th, 2006, 10:30 AM

Not MININOVA!

**MorphineInduced** · January 12th, 2006, 03:36 PM

ya well maybe someone should just go hax there shit and get some revenge for there ignorance

**teto** · January 12th, 2006, 05:57 PM

And This is why Europe wants to "take over the Internet." Domain names the USA cannot be trusted with currently, since our government is corrupt, non-representative, and corporate.

**teto** · January 13th, 2006, 01:52 AM

Hmm, don't know if the corporates have any leverage against this, but Just In Case, the IP addresses of those four bittorrent indexes are:
MyBitTorrent.com
219.117.228.244
torrentspy.com
83.149.102.38
83.149.103.166
83.149.102.34
mininova.org
83.149.119.115
isohunt.com
69.64.61.30

I couldn't tell you if that was static, or dynamic. Hopefully the former though.

**thepuzzler** · January 13th, 2006, 06:42 AM

Anyone no why OiNK's down at the moment?

**gorphon** · January 13th, 2006, 06:42 AM

I was wondering the same thing, thepuzzler.

**gorphon** · January 13th, 2006, 06:49 AM

on bitme they have said that the OiNK servers have crashed and no one is sure when they will be back up. also, there is a temp irc channel for the site: eu.neko-net.org #oink

**thepuzzler** · January 13th, 2006, 06:53 AM

Thanks for the updates.

**Jared Moya** · January 13th, 2006, 11:36 AM

OMFG! OINK! Nooooooooooooooo! If OINK were lost I dont know what I'd do.

IRC channel though heh? Been a long time since I used newsgroups, may have to dust off the ol' Newsbin PRO.

Whats the best newsgroup reader out there these days?