Update: People are still arriving here through Google, this post is now a bit out of date.  Demonoid IS back, and it’s most likely legit.  Read more about why I think so by clicking this link.

As I was leaving the office today, a coworker called me to say that he’d received an email about everyone’s favourite torrent tracker coming back online. I reported on Demonoid when it went down initially.

If you check it out, Demonoid.com is definitely up, and the site welcome message suggests that the site has a new owner / administrator.

Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care of the website, because of personal matters he’s been needing to attend to. For this reason, he has decided to leave the site staff.

Before leaving, he assigned a new site administrator from among his friends to take care of the site. The old moderator team will continue helping with the site, unchanged. We will try to keep running everything just as it always has been.

The WHOIS info is (predictably) obscured by a Domain Name Proxy service.

The Demonoid tracker was back up a few months ago, but I’m a bit suspicious of the site coming back so suddenly and with a different admin. Hopefully this isn’t a Honey Pot … I might hold off on this until someone like Ernesto weighs in and confirms the site’s legitimacy.

More information as it becomes available…

UPDATE 1: Oops, looks like I was a little late. TorrentFreak posted this story a few days ago! :-$ All the same, lots of people are suggesting it’s a trap. Might want to make sure you have PeerGuardian up to date.