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Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to 'Black Hole'

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 11 2020, @02:35AM   
from the you-can't-get-there-from-here dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:

Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to 'Black Hole' * TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay's original and main domain has been unreachable for more than a month.

While the site operates as usual on the Tor network, visitors to ThePirateBay.org are welcomed by a Cloudflare error message mentioning that the "connection timed out."

Two weeks ago, a source familiar with the matter informed us that the infamous torrent site faces some technical issues and the admin is taking this opportunity to rewrite some code. After that, we received no updates.

Today, however, something appears to be changing. For the first time in years, the whois record for ThePirateBay.org has been updated. Instead of the domain pointing to Cloudflare's nameservers, it is now linked to the default nameservers of the domain registrar EasyDNS.

In addition, the domain's status code has changed from 'client Transfer Prohibited' to 'ok,' which means that there are no restrictions preventing it from being transferred to a new owner.

At the time of writing, all traffic to ThePirateBay.org is resolving to 127.0.0.1, which is the generic localhost IP-address. This means that the domain name is effectively null routed, with all requests dumped into a local black hole.

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Original Submission

• odd... odd... (Score: 2) by exaeta on Saturday April 11 2020, @05:57AM (4 children)

  by exaeta (6957) on Saturday April 11 2020, @05:57AM (#981028) Homepage Journal

  All the piratebay mirrors are working for me. I don't think they lost the DNS record, maybe your ISP is blocking it?

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• Re:odd... Re:odd... (Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:29AM (3 children)

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday April 11 2020, @06:29AM (#981045) Journal

  From the summary, emphasis by me:

  The Pirate Bay's original and main domain has been unreachable for more than a month.

  Your comment (emphasis by me):

  All the piratebay mirrors are working for me.

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  • Re:odd... Re:odd... (Score: 2) by exaeta on Saturday April 11 2020, @10:07PM (2 children)

    by exaeta (6957) on Saturday April 11 2020, @10:07PM (#981310) Homepage Journal

    Piratebay.org works for me too. All of them work.

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    • Re:odd... Re:odd... (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Sunday April 12 2020, @12:48AM (1 child)

      by Fnord666 (652) on Sunday April 12 2020, @12:48AM (#981374) Homepage

      My current results:

      $ nslookup piratebay.org
      Server:  UnKnown
      Address:  192.168.1.1
      
      Non-authoritative answer:
      Name:    piratebay.org
      Address:  127.0.0.1

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      • Re:odd... (Score: 3, Informative) by Fnord666 on Sunday April 12 2020, @12:49AM

        by Fnord666 (652) on Sunday April 12 2020, @12:49AM (#981375) Homepage

        My current results:

        $ nslookup piratebay.org
        Server:  UnKnown
        Address:  192.168.1.1
        
        Non-authoritative answer:
        Name:    piratebay.org
        Address:  127.0.0.1

        However:

        $ nslookup thepiratebay.org
        Server:  UnKnown
        Address:  192.168.1.1
        
        Non-authoritative answer:
        Name:    thepiratebay.org
        Addresses:  2606:4700:3034::6812:251b
                  2606:4700:3033::6812:241b
                  104.18.37.27
                  104.18.36.27

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