Demonoid is back online under new admin

The famous BitTorrent tracker/portal Demonoid is back online after months of downtime. The former administrator of the site, Deimos, had to shutdown the project in Canada. There were numerous attempts in relaunching Demonoid under different hostings all over the world, but it always failed after few days. It’s just a few moments since a new administrator took over the site after Deimos stepped down from his administrative place due to personal reasons and relaunched it.

A quick look into WHOIS discovers that Demonoid is now hosted by American server hosting company Softlayer – I could probably imagine a better country for hosting a torrent website or tracker because of legal climax regarding p2p websites in the USA and the witch hunt RIAA has started , but it seems to work fine now.

Update – The fellow blogger altervedo used the online service of VisualRoute and noted that Demonoid is hosted on a Ukranian server at ColoCall (colocall.net).

The following message by Umlauf, the new Demonoid Admin, is displayed on the main page of the famous torrent portal.

Welcome back!

Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care of the website, because of personal matters he’s been needing to attend to. For this reason, he has decided to leave the site staff.

Before leaving, he assigned a new site administrator from among his friends to take care of the site. The old moderator team will continue helping with the site, unchanged. We will try to keep running everything just as it always has been.

The trackers and website seem to be working properly, and should any issues arise, they will be taken care of as soon as possible. The site might be going on and offline over the next days as we work out any problems.

Welcome back, and enjoy your stay!

- Umlauf
Demonoid Site admin