What happened to ExtraTorrent
In May 2017, at the peak of its popularity as one of the world's largest torrent indexes, ExtraTorrent's operators shut the site down voluntarily. The farewell message was short, explicit, and unusually responsible: the site was closing for good, its data was being erased, and users should stay away from fake ExtraTorrent websites and clones.
No successor, no domain move, no revival — the same clean-shutdown pattern as RARBG in 2023, just six years earlier.
Nine years of impostors, catalogued
| What you find | What it really is |
|---|---|
| extratorrent-lookalike domains (“.ag”, “2”, “cc” variants) | Impostors serving scraped, pre-2017 databases plus whatever they add themselves |
| “ExtraTorrent proxy list” pages | Lists of impostor domains — proxies to nowhere |
| “ExtraTorrent is back!” announcements | A recurring hoax; the operators publicly quit and wiped the data in 2017 |
The original team's own final warning is the definitive verdict on every one of these sites.
What to use instead
The audience moved on long ago — to 1337x and The Pirate Bay, both alive and both with their own ISP-block situations covered in our guides. If they're blocked on your network, the fix is the same private-route pattern:
- Private proxy IP in an unrestricted country (residential blends in best).
- Browser- or system-level setup — the SOCKS5 guide covers every device.
- Real domain, direct, certificate checked.