Torrentz
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Torrentz was a Finland-based metasearch engine for BitTorrent, run by an individual known as Flippy and founded on 24 July 2003. 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.
Key facts
- Website.screenshot
- Torrentz screenshot.png
- Website.caption
- Torrentz website and screenshot for a selected torrent.
- Website.url
- (.com until April 2011)
- Website.commercial
- No
- Website.type
- Torrent meta-search engine
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.language
- English
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.country
- Finland
- Website.author
- Flippy (alias)
- Website.name
- Torrentz
- Website.current_status
- Offline
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Finland
- Headquarters
- Finland
- Official website
- torrentz2.cyou
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- Alexa rank
- 921
- inception
- 2003-07-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-08-05
- language of work or name
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Usage
- History
- Clones
- See also
- References
Torrentz was a Finland-based metasearch engine for BitTorrent, run by an individual known as Flippy and founded on 24 July 2003. 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.
== Usage ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torrentz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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