Hundreds of .TV domains have ceased to be operational as a result of the problems registered at Sarek Oy, in Finland, one of the best-known domain registration services worldwide for, among many other reasons, its favorable policies towards websites. pirates We tell you all the details.
Today, the specialized media TorrentFreak has reported the appearance of a list that includes almost 200 domains that are no longer operational during the last hours. The news might not have a great impact, attributing the origin of the problem to some type of technical incident, if it were not for the fact that all of them share a series of common denominators that indicate a certain relationship with piracy, as demonstrated by the terms they include in their nomenclature. , with keywords such as: stream, film, movie or HD, among many others. In addition, the presence of several records related to the anime category has also been detected, such as Animebytes, one of the best known and which, now, cannot be accessed either.
The second of their common points also draws attention: all operate from .TV domains and have been registered in the service of Sarek Oy registration, known for, among other things, the flexibility of its policies when it comes to hosting websites that are related to pirate activity. So we could probably find ourselves facing one of the largest massive blackouts in recent years.
200 websites
The published list reaches up to 196 websites and can be consulted from this link. At the time of writing these lines, none of them have a functional DNS, so probably millions of users who go to these websites on a daily basis to consume the content they disseminate are beginning to get impatient at the impossibility of accessing these sites.
Given how recent the event has been, since Sarek Oy No official explanation has been given for what happened yet. Therefore, it is not known if domain activity is expected to be restored in the next few hours or if it is a definitive closure derived from some anti-piracy ruling. Which would be one of the biggest blows to the pirated industry in recent months. However, other web pages that also They operate under the .TV domain, but they are not registered with Sarek Oy, they do work perfectly. So everything seems to indicate that the problem lies at this point.
No DNS
As the same medium to which we have referred explains, when studying the main domains in the list, all of them appear in “serverHold” status in WHOIS. Which means that the domains do not have no functional DNS. However, no further explanation is provided in this regard to understand the origin and current state of the problem.
It is unknown if it has existed some prior notice by Sarek Oy towards the affected domains, but everything seems to indicate that this has not been the case and that we would find ourselves facing some action against piracy, awaiting an official statement.
