Yggtorrent Loses Domain After Copyright LawsuitYggtorrent loses the.com domain after Sacem’s Dmca lawsuit an anti-piracy group in France. Yggtorrent has now changed its domain name to yggtorrent.is and the domain registrar has also changed to Njalla. With all these changes, old trackers that were connected to the.com domain will no longer work. Yggtorrent is one of the world’s largest torrenting websites that receives more than a million visits a month. Yet the site only serves a French audience. It is among the top 100 most visited web sites in France. Perhaps the reason why this large user base was created is because the site had not presented itself as the usual torrent indexer. Yggtorrent was instead built up like a site with its own dedicated tracker. This one just came in after T411 was shut down, and took the spot leaving torrent users little time to mourn. Figure 1 Image Courtesy of yggtorrent Now being only a few months old and gaining such enormous popularity the site managed to attract officials and copyright holders ‘ attention. A local anti-piracy group, Sacem, sent over a thousand Dmca notices and recently went to Internet.bs-Yggtorrent’s domain registrar for help. BrandAnalytic drafter a complaint on behalf of Sacem citing that “this [ Yggtorrent ] infringing domain name provides users with copyright-protected works without the express or tacit permission of the company or its authors composers and publishers” and thus violates copyright laws. In addition to this copyright complaint BrandAnalytic also stated in their letter that the site is engaged in phishing activities because the use of cookies is obviously listed on the registration page of the site. In concluding their letter BrandAnalytic cited that Yggtorrent is using a Whois Privacy Service and therefore they are unable to track the owners, so they rely on Internet.bs help. Now this complaint was sent back in February to Internet.bs, who then forwarded it to Yggtorrent so that the community could provide an appropriate response which it failed to do. After this, their domain registrarplaces their.com domain name on hold which makes it inaccessible. The website is up and running as of now, but older torrents whose trackers have been connected to the.com domain will no longer work. Furthermore, the community needs to watch their back with the Sacem keeping an eye out for them. Previously Sacem took down Zone-Telechargement and What.cd among others.