Torrentz
Torrentz website and screenshot for a selected torrent. | |
Type of site | Torrent meta-search engine |
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| Available in | English |
| Dissolved | 5 August 2016 |
| Headquarters | |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Created by | Flippy (alias) |
| URL | torrentz (.com until April 2011) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 15 July 2003 |
| Current status | Offline |
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Torrentz was a Finland-based metasearch engine for BitTorrent, run by an individual known as Flippy and founded on 24 July 2003. It indexed torrents from various major torrent websites and offered compilations of various trackers per torrent that were not necessarily present in the default .torrent file, so that when a tracker was down, other trackers could do the work. It was the second most popular torrent website in 2012.