YggTorrent
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Type of site | Torrent index |
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| Available in | French |
| Dissolved | March 4, 2026 |
| URL | yggtorrent |
| Registration | Mandatory |
| Users | More than 5 million |
| Launched | 2017 |
| Current status |  |
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| File sharing and online piracy |
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YggTorrent (sometimes abbreviated as Ygg) was a French private torrent directory and BitTorrent tracker created in 2017.
According to Alexa Internet, as of January 1, 2020, it ranked as the 35th most visited website in France, making it the most popular in its category bittorrent directories and downloading website.
The site frequently changed its top-level domain to evade site blocking by French authorities, censorship, or domain name suspensions.
Content
[edit]YggTorrent indexed digital audiovisual content, video games, as well as digital books and software. Founded in July 2017 by a French-speaking team, YggTorrent allowed visitors to search, download, and contribute by adding torrent files, thus facilitating file sharing among users of the BitTorrent protocol.
As a file-sharing site with copyrighted material, usage of YggTorrent may be illegal in some jurisdictions. The site allowed the sharing of content that is copyrighted, which may be illegal without proper rights acquisition.[1]
History
[edit]On May 21, 2017, the yggtorrent.com domain name was registered for the first time.[2] The site's administrators initially made it a public bittorrent directory listing a limited number of torrents[3] Following the closure of t411 on June 26, 2017, the site underwent significant changes and officially opened its doors as a participatory public tracker in early July 2017. Its administrators chose after a few weeks to turn it into a private tracker with open registration.
On October 31, 2017, t411.si, a highly visited clone of the t411 site, announced its closure and merger with YggTorrent.[4][5] On December 1, YggTorrent was delisted by the search engine Google in response to repeated copyright infringements and numerous DMCA claims sent to Google by copyright holders.[6]
As of December 8, 2017, the site had more than 600,000 members, 173,000 torrents, accumulating a total of more than two million connected peers.
In December 2018, Numerama published an interview with a former site administrator who indicated that the site had generated 300,000 euros in four months[7] and also revealed the total number of torrents on the site in December 2018, which was just under 280,000 torrents.[7]
In early 2020, the site reported 3,500,000 users on Twitter without specifying the duplicate, triple, and multiple accounts also used by the team.[7] In 2021, the site listed slightly more than 490,000 torrents,[8] many of which were inactive.[9]
On February 5, 2020, the site's domain name was deactivated by the domain name registrar for "infringements around intellectual property, or legal rights of copyright holders, such as the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to create derivative works."
On February 20, 2020, the site had its Twitter account suspended and invited its users to follow it on Mastodon.[10]
On the night of March 3–4, 2026, the site was hacked by a hacker called Gr0lum. Soon after, the operators of the site announced its permanent closure.[11] The hacker has posted explanation behind the attack vector as well as a leak of a database.[12]
Domain name changes
[edit]Since its inception, the site has changed its domain name several times to circumvent blocking by French Internet service providers, censorship by search engines such as Google, or domain name suspensions by domain name registrars.
| Domain | Status | Date | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| yggtorrent.org | Main domain (current) | December 19, 2025 | [13] |
| yggtorrent.top | Redirects to main domain | March 23, 2025 | [14][15][16][17] |
| ygg.re | Redirects to main domain | May 17, 2024 | [13][17] |
| yggtorrent.cool | Redirects to main domain | April 27, 2024 | [13][17] |
| yggtorrent.qa | Redirects to main domain | December 2023 | [14][17] |
| yggtorrent.wtf | Redirects to main domain | July 2023 | [14] |
| yggtorrent.do | Suspended | March 20, 2023 | [18] |
| yggtorrent.lol | Redirects to main domain | December 2022 | [14] |
| yggtorrent.fi | Redirects to main domain | June 2022 | [14] |
| yggtorrent.la | Redirects to main domain | April 2022 | [14] |
| yggtorrent.re | Redirects to main domain | December 2021 | [14] |
| yggtorrent.nz | Redirects to main domain | August 2021 | [14] |
| yggtorrent.li | Redirects to main domain | 2020–2021 | [19] |
| yggtorrent.si | Redirects to main domain | July 2020 | [20] |
| yggtorrent.se | Abandoned | February 2020 | [20][21] |
| yggtorrent.ws | Suspended | December 2, 2019 | [22][21][23] |
| yggtorrent.pe | Abandoned | September 24, 2019 | [24] |
| yggtorrent.ch | Redirects to main domain | 2019 | [25] |
| yggtorrent.gg | Abandoned | May 2019 | [26] |
| ygg.to | Redirects to main domain | May 2019 | [26] |
| yggtorrent.to | Redirects to main domain | May 2019 | [26] |
| yggtorrent.is | Redirects to main domain | May 2019 | [26] |
| yggtorrent.com | Abandoned | June 3, 2017 | [27] |
References
[edit]- ↑ "Yggtorrent: all about this torrent download site". presse-citron. 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
- ↑ "Whois Yggtorrent". Retrieved November 30, 2017.
- ↑ "Screenshot taken by Web Archives, June 3, 2017". Archived from the original on June 3, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "No, T411 is not back". 20 minutes. 21 July 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ↑ "T411: the two main replicas of the BitTorrent link site merge". Numerama. 30 October 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ↑ "Illegal downloading: are T411 and YggTorrent dead?". Ère Numérique. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- 1 2 3 Julien Lausson (2018-12-25). "What's wrong with YggTorrent: a former moderator tells us about internal dissension". Numerama. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
- ↑ "Search page indicating the number of torrents". Archived from the original on June 9, 2021. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Search - Yggtorrent". www2.yggtorrent.ws. Archived from the original on February 23, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
- ↑ Julien Lausson (February 24, 2020). "BitTorrent: the YggTorrent link site also loses its Twitter account". Numerama. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ "Un des plus gros sites francophones de téléchargement illégal, YggTorrent, «détruit» par un hacker". Le Figaro (in French). 2026-03-04. Retrieved 2026-03-04.
- ↑ "YGGtorrent — Fin de partie — YGGLeak". yggleak.top. Retrieved 2026-03-04.
- 1 2 3 "YggTorrent : BitTorrent est toujours vivant". android-mt.ouest-france.fr. December 21, 2025. Archived from the original on December 21, 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "New YggTorrent address". astuces-aide-informatique.info. March 23, 2025.
- ↑ "YggTorrent 2025: discover its new address". inigeek.fr. March 2025.
- ↑ "New YggTorrent address". funinformatique.com. March 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 "New Ygg address". lecoindunet.com. March 2025.
- ↑ Aymeric Geoffre-Rouland (March 21, 2023). "YggTorrent: what is the correct site address in March 2023?". Tom's Guide. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ↑ "YggTorrent new address". meilleure-innovation.com. 2021.
- 1 2 "YggTorrent is now blocked in France, the site disappears from Google". phonandroid.com. July 2020.
- 1 2 "YggTorrent changes address after domain name suspension". kulturegeek.fr. February 2020.
- ↑ "yggtorrent.ws". Twitter. December 2, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
- ↑ "YggTorrent BitTorrent directory had its main domain name confiscated". phonandroid.com. December 2019.
- ↑ Julien Lausson (September 26, 2019). "Pirate site YggTorrent gets ejected from Google and changes address". Numerama. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
- ↑ "Yggtorrent: all about this torrent download site". presse-citron.net. 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 "Pirate site YggTorrent changes address amid blocking". Numerama. May 2019.
- ↑ "Whois Yggtorrent". Retrieved November 30, 2017.
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