Registration Optional, free | Alexa rank 777 (February 2017) Current status Online | |
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Launched 2007; 10 years ago (2007) | ||
1337x is a website that provides a directory of torrent files and magnet links used for peer-to-peer file sharing through the BitTorrent protocol. According to the TorrentFreak news blog, 1337x is the sixth most popular torrent website as of June 2016.
History
1337X was founded in 2007 and saw increasing popularity in 2016 after the closure of KickassTorrents. In October 2016, it introduced a website redesign with new functionality. The site is banned from Google search queries and does not show up when searching through Google search. This action was taken following request by Feelgood Entertainment in 2015. In 2015 the site moved from its older .pl domain to .to, partly in order to evade the block.
It has been touted as an alternative to The Pirate Bay in face of its potential demise.