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Sedo Halts Demonoid Domain Name Sale Citing "Legal Issues"

Posted by samzenpus on from the what's-in-a-name? dept.

hypnosec writes "Demonoid domain names that were put up for sale last week have been de-listed by Sedo because of 'legal issues'. Trouble for Demonoid started sometime during the last week of July when it was rendered inaccessible following DDoS attacks after which it started serving malware laden ads. About four days after these reports, Ukrainian authorities got the best of Demonoid and closed down the site entirely by raiding the hosting service provider of the site. Sedo has said that no third-party or law enforcement agency has ordered the de-listing of the domain names."

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  1. Shifted to Brazil... by beaverdownunder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It appears from the whois that Demonoid's domains have been transferred to a registrar in Brazil.

    That would make a certain amount of sense. The 'legal issue' is probably that Sedo didn't actually have the right to sell the domains.

    However, this development does encourage the notion that Demonoid intends to come back...

    1. Re:Shifted to Brazil... by NJRoadfan · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I wouldn't be surprised. Sedo always gave me the impression they are a seedy operation to begin with. Rumored domain frontrunning via sister division 1&1's whois search is one of them.

    2. Re:Shifted to Brazil... by AlienIntelligence · · Score: 2

      I wouldn't be surprised. Sedo always gave me the impression they are a seedy operation to begin with. Rumored domain frontrunning via sister division 1&1's whois search is one of them.

      I always heard Sedo was GoDaddy's way of selling off domains. Have some kinda proof about the 1and1 before I cancel my 100 domains and hosting with them?

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  2. Re:So much disinformation by houghi · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://kat.ph/ is nice.

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    Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
  3. Re:So much disinformation by nurb432 · · Score: 2

    You know the industries have teams dedicated just to scour the net for stuff like that right? If you have a user base large enough to be useful, you are already on their radar.

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  4. Re:So much disinformation by mrclisdue · · Score: 2

    http://kat.ph/ is nice.

    ya, but no, really.

    Demonoid is/was special, and it's a shame to see it in limbo. I haven't come across a site that's even remotely similar in content, searchability, reliability (all things considered), and community. Some great posters, and some great torrents (specifically lossless audio.)

    I'd sure appreciate being in the loop re: similar sites.

    Hopefully it gets sorted soon....

    cheers,

  5. Re:So much disinformation by Fast+Thick+Pants · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to this fascinating PDF, kat is very much on the radar, along with Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, Btjunkie, torrentz, Rutracker, zamunda, warez-bb and others, including, of course, Demonoid. I don't doubt that it's someone's job to scour the net for this stuff of course... but I do doubt that they get many scoops here at /.

  6. Re:So much disinformation by linebackn · · Score: 4, Funny

    > , there was a raid, then there wasn't, now there was... WTF?

    Exactly. There was a RAID... and then there wasn't!

    Just had to say that. :)

    Anyway, Demonoid has bounced back so many times in the past it just doesn't seem right to think that it might finally be gone for good. Guess we will have to just wait and see.