yourBittorrent

yourBittorrent

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URL	http://www.yourBittorrent.com/
Type of site	BitTorrent Search Engine
Registration	Open registration
Available language(s)	English
Owner	Undisclosed
Created by	Undisclosed
Launched	January 2003
Alexa rank	7,463 (November 2011[update])[1]
Current status	Online

yourBittorrent (formerly known as myBittorrent) is an automated website, using Google to find BitTorrent websites on the internet. These websites are then crawled by bots and information about their files saved to the yourBittorrent.com database^[2] This is an automated process and yourBittorrent.com has no control over what is indexed.^[3] In March 2009 the owners of myBittorrent.com had a disagreement about the future of the site. This led to myBittorrent's closure and yourBittorrent's entree.

Kidnap

myBittorrent (Currently known as yourBittorrent) was the first BitTorrent site that has ever been "kidnapped" by its registrar. The website went down on 10 January 2006 for alleged violation of the registrar's abuse policy. myBittorrent was given two options in an email sent by GoDaddy, neither of which included an appeal process. The myBittorrent administration sent several emails trying to resolve the issue, but GoDaddy refused to respond until the myBittorrent administration told GoDaddy that they were going to take legal measures. Not long after that email was sent, GoDaddy fully restored the suspended account.^[4][5]

Microsoft takedown notice on open source torrents

In 2006, Microsoft sent a takedown notice to site, complaining about multiple files, including a “Windows-to-Linux-Migration” video, a Xandros Linux torrent, and a NeoOffice 1.2 distribution (an OpenOffice.org fork for Mac OS X).^[6]

Transition to yourBittorrent

On 22 March 2009, the owners of myBittorrent had a disagreement over the website's future. The ongoing juridical procedures against other torrent sites, like The Pirate Bay made one of the owners want to downsize the website and over time stop running it. On the other side, the other co-owner wanted it to become bigger and possibly merge with other torrent sites. They decided that they would each go their own way. One owner would keep myBittorrent.com and after a transition period close it down, while the other owner would move all the torrents to yourBittorrent.com. Between March 2009 and July 2009 the owners of myBittorrent held a transition period. On 9 July 2009, the domain myBittorrent.com was closed-down after most of the traffic had moved onto yourBittorrent.com already.

See also

• BitTorrent
• Comparison of BitTorrent sites

References

1. ^ "Yourbittorrent.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yourBittorrent.com. Retrieved 2011-11-02. 
2. ^ Mennecke, Thomas (November 1, 2006). "myBittorrent.com Expands Lineup". Slyck.com. pp. 1. http://www.slyck.com/story1332.html. Retrieved 2007-06-27. 
3. ^ "Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent". http://slashdot.org/articles/05/09/26/0540248.shtml?tid=95&tid=1. Retrieved 2007-06-27. 
4. ^ Mennecke, Thomas (January 12, 2006). "Go Daddy Releases myBitTorrent.com Domain". Slyck.com. pp. 1. http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1053. Retrieved 2007-06-27. 
5. ^ "Domains Magazine". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928141831/http://domainsmagazine.com/Domains_10/Domain_1589.shtml. Retrieved 2007-06-27.  Dead link as of April 17, 2008.
6. ^ Microsoft Claims Ownership of Linux Copyright TorrentFreak

External links

• yourBittorrent.com