It Is Hard to Keep Torrent Sites Down: Extra Torrent Relaunches as Extratorrent.Cd

A few days ago, the popular torrent website: ExtraTorrent shut down without any proper notice, leaving many to wonder what will become of the torrenting scene. But similar to kickass torrents, the admins have managed to resurrect the website using their own previous data. The website's address is now: ExtraTorrent.cd.

There seem to be no major changes in the layout or data of the website. Everything seems to be intact and the site seems to be working like it should. ExtraTorrent had shut down a few days earlier after publishing a rather cryptic message on their website that stated the demise of the long-running torrenting site without any signs of coming back.

Thankfully the admins managed to get the site up and running and had this to say in a statement made yesterday - "We are a group of uploaders and admins from ExtraTorrent. As you know, SAM from ExtraTorrent pulled the plug yesterday and took all data offline under pressure from authorities. We were in deep shock and have been working hard to get it back online with all previous data.

We have successfully resurrected it back to its glory at ExtraTorrent.cd with all available data. It's live and new data is continuously being updated. Some small features are not yet working and we are getting it fixed as we speak. Our group had previously resurrected The Pirate Bay and KickAss Torrents (as kickass.cd) when these went offline. These sites are our home and we won't let anyone destroy them"

It remains to be seen whether ExtraTorrent.cd is the real deal or not. It could be another site by someone that using archived data from the previous ExtraTorrent servers. For now, everything seems legit, but I would suggest you, wait a few days before jumping on the torrent wagon.