Demonoid

About
Demonoid is one of the largest private trackers that has ever existed, although its effectiveness at being "private" is questionable.

There were regularly open registrations and was extremely easy to get into, making it friendly to a lot of users who have never been in a private tracker before. On top of being easy to get into, it was very easy to maintain membership on the tracker due to having no ratio requirements.

With its huge abundance of invites and lack of ratio rules, it was widely known as a hybrid between communities that you would find in private trackers and public trackers.

Demonoid suffered many downtimes during its prime years most likely a result of how easy it was to get into. On August 6 2012 the site and tracker were officially shut down by Ukranian authorities and logs were handed over to the US government. Little was heard for the next two years, however on March 30 2014 the site is brought back online with staff ties to the original Demonoid. All user accounts and torrents were still intact however despite the excitement from its former users there was a huge lack in seeding and users active on the website. As with most resurrections, it falls short in comparison to its former self.

IRC
Server: irc.p2p-network.net

Port: 6667

Channel(s): #Demonoid

2003
April 21 - The tracker was launched

2007
November 9 - Site goes offline for 5 months due to legal threats

2008
January 16 - The Pirate Bay offers Demonoid use of two servers

April 11 - Site comes back online after legal threats with a new administrator

October 18 - Over 185000 torrents being tracked

2009
January 3 - Over 210000 torrents being tracked

September 14 - Site and tracker go offline due to hardware problems

December 13 - Site comes back online with tracker coming back a month prior

2010
April 26 - Experienced heavy DDOS attacks

July - DDOS attacks have subsided

December 2 - Demonoid changes from a .com to a .me domain, with hopes to avoiding US government seizure

2011
April 16 - Over 370000 torrents being tracked and 142000 members

2012
April 27 - Domain changes from .me to .ph

August 1 - Domain changed to redirect to an ad network with reports of malware

August 6 - Demonoid is officially shut down by Ukrainian authorities. There was also arrested staff in Mexico

2013
November 6 - Message saying "We will rebuild!" pops up at the .com, .me, and .ph domains

2014
March 30 - Demonoid is resurrected at the .ph domain

December 3 - Domain changes from .ph to .pw