To many people The Pirate Bay is the equivalent to BitTorrent. The
site was founded in 2003 and is still expanding,
KickassTorrents was founded in 2009 and has moved up in our top 10
year after year. Responding to increasing worries over domain seizures,
the site moved from its kickasstorrents.com domain to kat.ph in 2012.
Torrentz
Torrentz has been the leading BitTorrent meta-search engine for many
years. Unlike the other sites featured in the list Torrentz does not
host any torrent files, it merely redirects visitors to other places on
the web.
Two years ago isoHunt became the first search engine forced to implement a keyword filter
provided by the MPAA.
ExtraTorrent continues to gain more traffic and has moved up again in
the top 10, now being the 5th most visited torrent site
1337x focuses more on the community aspect than some competitors. The
site’s owners say they started 1337x to “fill an apparent void where it
seemed there was a lack of quality conscience ad free torrent sites
with public trackers."
Unlike the other sites in the top 10, TV-torrent distribution group
EZTV is a niche site specializing in TV content only. It was one of the
newcomers last year despite being around for more than 7 years, and is
relatively popular among Australians.
BitSnoop is one of the largest BitTorrent indexes, claiming to index a
massive 19,091,736 torrent files at the time of writing.
TorrentReactor is back in the top 10 after dropping off last year.
H33T has been around for many years and has built a dedicated user base, mostly in Europe and Asia.
