YggTorrent Teases September Comeback Weeks After Police Arrests
The site's tracker status page still reports 478,000 torrents and over 1.7 million peers, suggesting an active tracker remains in operation despite the arrests and domain sale listing.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
French-language torrent site YggTorrent, shut down after a March hack and a July police operation that led to 12 arrests, is teasing a return. Its domain now redirects to yggtorrent.to, which shows a countdown to September 1, 2026, Paris time, with a message promising the platform will rise from the ashes.
YggTorrent's old domain, yggtorrent.org, was listed for sale at $700,000 as part of a portfolio of 60 domains. Now that address redirects to yggtorrent.to, where a countdown page declares the platform will return with its catalog, community, and spirit unchanged.
The status page for YggTorrent's tracker reports 478,000 torrents and more than 1.7 million peers, about 95 percent of them seeders. That activity suggests the new team behind the domain either owns a working tracker or has access to the previous one.
How the domain sale and revival came together after the arrests is unclear. Whether the promised return is real or a lure into a scam also remains unknown, and French authorities have not commented on the countdown page.
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