One of the most-visited torrenting websites on the Internet, Kickass.so has lost access to its Somalian domain name and is currently unavailable. Due to its millions of visitors per day, the site has become a target for copyright holders who want to see it be taken offline.

While the site is currently down, it is expected that it will move to a new domain name sometime later today. The Kickass team informed Torrent Freak (www.torrentfreak.com) that they will be reverting back to their older domain, kickass.to. 

The website has previously evaded the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) by removing torrent links that have been flagged as copyrighted—but not nearly enough to be only hosting legal material.

This news comes shortly after the fall of The Pirate Bay, a similar torrent-hosting website. However, The Pirate Bay actually had their servers and computers seized by Swedish police, and in this case all KickassTorrents has to do is move everything to a new domain name.

In this digital age of the Internet, piracy will always be an option for those who seek it out. Concerning the two power players, KickassTorrents and The Pirate Bay, neither will die while the other survives.