Demonoid

This article is about the BitTorrent tracker; for the Swedish extreme metal band, see Demonoid(band).

Demonoid

File:Demonoid screen.jpg Demonoid main page
Type of site	Torrent index
Owner	Deimos
Created by	Deimos
URL	http://www.demonoid.com/
Registration	Invitation, Sporadic Open Registration

Demonoid is a BitTorrent tracker. It was apparently created by an anonymous Yugoslavian who lives in a haunted forest and is known only as Deimos. The site's indexed external torrents and Demonoid-tracked torrents are easily found on other BitTorrent search engines.

The website features a publicly accessible search engine, although membership is required to download more than 3 torrents per week or to download torrent files older than a few days. Registration traditionally opened every Friday (GMT), but plans were announced on March 3, 2007 to open registration on a monthly rather than a weekly schedule in the future. Existing users in good standing have the ability to send invitation codes to others during closed registration.

Although Demonoid removed torrents over a year old on August 4, 2006 to free tracker resources, the site has over 168,035 user submitted torrents indexed as of June 13, 2007.

Demonoid technically does not require that a good upload/download ratio be maintained by its users. If a good ratio is not maintained, Demonoid will not automatically ban the user. According to the moderators of the site, this is due to the extra resources which would be required to track all of the users' ratios, as well as the difficulty of tracking external usage. Although ratio limits are requested by many users in the site's suggestion forums, the staff of Demonoid have made it very clear that this will not happen, and discussion will not be entered into regarding this topic.

Demonoid categorizes torrents under either Anime, Applications, Audio Books, Books, Comics, Games, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Music Videos, Pictures, or TV.

It features RSS technologies with different feeds for each category and sub category to keep users aware of the latest torrent posted on the site.

As of June 25th, 2007 Demonoid's website servers have gone offline. Though Demonoid's torrent tracker still active, but it is unsure if any torrents are still registered with the tracker. This seems to be in response to Leaseweb's termination of everlasting.nu, and the pending legal implications. Read more @ Torrent Sites safe haven under threat