


Despite this however, the website still quickly gained a large userbase, reaching two million unique visitors in May 2017. While this was at first speculated to be an official rehosting, it was later discovered to be a re-skinned of The Pirate Bay, serving exact information from their database, under an ExtraTorrent interface. Initially, the most popular one of these clones was located at extratorrent.cd.

Shortly after the shutdown of the official ExtraTorrent website, multiple clones and imitations appeared online. Īt the time of its shutdown, ExtraTorrent's primary domain name was the 291st most viewed website globally, according to statistics from Alexa Internet. The website was already down for days due to an emergency maintenance situation, just two days before the website shut down permanently. The entire website was replaced with a message from the administrator, stating that the website was to shut down permanently (as well as all mirror domains), and wipe all data relating to the website and its content. On, ExtraTorrent voluntarily ceased operations out of the blue. Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.Closed as of May 17, 2017 6 years ago ( )
