What is Demonoid. Demonoid is a website and BitTorrent tracker created by an anonymous Serbian known only by the pseudonym “Deimos” and “Zajson”. The website indexes torrents uploaded by its members. It is the second largest,and is the most popular, semi-public tracker,and is ranked the 499th most popular website overall in December 2008, according to Alexa.Demonoid’s torrent tracker had an estimated 3 million peers in September 2007.The site had over 252,427 torrents indexed as of May 3, 2009 (torrents uploaded prior to August 4, 2005 were removed to free server resources).
The site went offline on November 9, 2007, reportedly due to legal threats to their service provider, from the Canadian Recording Industry Association. The site then came back online on April 11, 2008. The homepage announced that the site had a new administrator, and that the old one (Deimos) had left for personal reasons.
On September 14, 2009, Demonoid’s torrent tracker went down after it was reported that they had experienced a number of computer problems stemming from power outages.The tracker returned to service on November 5,and the main site returned on December 13.
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