 Torrentz website and screenshot for a selected torrent. | |
Type of site | Torrent meta-search engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Dissolved | 5 August 2016 |
| Headquarters | |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Created by | Flippy (alias) |
| URL | torrentz (.com until April 2011) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 15 July 2003[1] |
| Current status | Offline |
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Torrentz was a Finland-based metasearch engine for BitTorrent, run by an individual known as Flippy[2] and founded on 24 July 2003.[3] It indexed torrents from various major torrent websites and offered compilations of various trackers per torrent that were not necessarily present in the default .torrent file, so that when a tracker was down, other trackers could do the work. It was the second most popular torrent website in 2012.[4]
- ^ "Torrentz WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- ^ "torrentz.eu – Torrent Search Engine". 2011-04-16. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ "Torrentz.eu". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ "Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2012". Torrentfreak.com. 7 January 2012. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2012.