Here’s one tracker you won’t be finding invitations floating around for, and that’s Vizz.tv. As many already know, this new TV tracker only offers membership through a $24 yearly fee. As luck would have it, we were fortunate enough to find a subscriber who granted us unconditional access. Presenting the Net’s first (and only) review of Vizz.tv, in which we explore if Vizz really lives up to the hype.
Nothing sets off the private torrent community into a frenzy quite like the mention of a new l33t secret tracker. Many will probably remember old news about PEG. Supposedly PEG was a topsite in the style of a TBDev tracker, where members received direct web/FTP access to the fastest and latest scene releases - ratio free, naturally. Of course, all of this was just an elaborate hoax. However, the perpetrators of this fabrication have gone on to create the real PEG tracker.
The facts are in: Numerically, requests for tracker invitations are much in decline compared to what they were a year ago - even though there are more private trackers and more torrent forums than ever before. But does this mean that there are fewer people opting for private? Not at all. Private trackers as a whole are experiencing explosive growth, year after year. So, why have invite requests for private trackers decreased substantially from just 12 months ago? There are several pivotal reasons for this phenomenon.
One question we get quite frequently from readers is this: What are the best (safest) hosting companies in which to run a private tracker on? The answer is quite simple, really - one just needs to take a look at which hosting providers current trackers are using. Below, we list 200 popular trackers and examine who they’re hosted with. While the most obvious leaders would presumably be OVH and Leaseweb, the results are somewhat surprising - the number 2 provider that private trackers are using to host their sites turns out to be torrent-friendly Carat Networks.
It’s been nearly 5 months since ScienceHD.net bestowed the scene with science-related torrents. This rapidly-growing Gazelle tracker has one of the most active dev teams in all of BitTorrent, and has really evolved into something to behold. Innovative, feature-rich and jammed with content - if there was an award for most improved tracker, SciHD would win in a landslide. And for the first time in more than 4 months, the ScienceHD crew has decided to open up registration for a limited time:
UPDATE: Sept. 30 - Public registration is now closed.
It’s indisputable that most public torrent indexers will offer more torrents than any one individual private tracker. However, if you added up all the private torrents in existence, and compared the stats to what public trackers have to offer (taking into consideration for redundancy and dead torrents of both) private trackers collectively will win in an overwhelming landslide. For example IsoHunt, which boasts an incredible 3.7 million ‘active’ torrents; impressive as it may seem, still pales in comparison to the number of torrents available on just 20 of the top private trackers combined. Here’s a list of 13 private trackers that have the most torrents overall.
Looking for a great “live” solution to accurately assist in finding private trackers that are open for signups? After months of heavy development, Team Roots has finally launched a new, speedier (and vastly improved) version of TORC - the Torrents Open Registrations Checker v1.26. TORC has it all - a great list of current trackers; filtering options; tracker icons; detailed view; and, of course - automatic timed & repeat checking of selected private trackers to see if they’re open for direct signups.
Most private trackers have similar rules in regards to which BitTorrent clients are considered safe to use - or allowable - on their tracker, and the use of anything else can quite easily lead to the dreaded banhammer. Collectively, trackers don’t tend to agree on one amalgamated master list of supported BT clients, as individual trackers have their own set of rules for what’s allowed and what’s not. An example of this is TL & RevolutionTT which both allow BitComet, whereby most private trackers outright ban this client. HDBits.org, on the contrary, only allows six different clients. However, we feel this is about the ’safest’ list of BitTorrent clients you can find.
Whether you’re a seasoned torrent veteran or brand new to the world of private trackers, it helps to know what site is being referred to in a giveaway. As you are probably aware, Inviters often use short abbreviations or acronyms for private trackers in torrent forums, instead of using the long official site name or URL. This is usually due to convenience, and sometimes even for the security of the tracker.
A similar index of private tracker abbreviations can be found elsewhere, but it badly needed an overhaul with all the latest trackers. Here’s an alphabetical list of more than 200 private torrent tracker abbreviations, site names and URLs.
Last month, we reported about berrypi.com, the Internet’s first publicly-available private tracker metasearch website. Now we introduce Torify.eu - a Web 2.0-style next-gen search engine for your private trackers that does much more than just search the sites that you’re logged in to. In fact, Torify displays a list of the indexed torrents for your chosen trackers - all in the same window.
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