Nyaa Torrents


Nyaa Torrents is a BitTorrent website focused on East Asian media. It is one of the largest public anime-dedicated torrent indexes.

History

In 2011, some users of the site were targeted for copyright infringements. The site was a target of a large DDoS attack in early September 2014.
By early 2017, Nyaa's popularity ranked it around the 1000th most popular website on the Internet.
On 1 May 2017, their.se,.eu and.org domain names were deactivated, with the site's moderators later confirming that the owner took it down voluntarily. In the following weeks several forks, partially based on nyaa code and database of torrents, were started, each using 'nyaa' in its name.
In mid-2017 TorrentFreak reported that Germany based Goodlabs put up a fake version of the.eu site and are attempting to get users to download malware.
As of mid-2018, the two main surviving forks had the.si and.cat domains. By early 2019, Nyaa's.si and.cat domains were ranked around 500th and 12,000th most popular websites on the Internet, respectively.