What.cd a private bittorrent site dedicated to the world of music has moved from Leaseweb in Holland to Sweden-based PRQ hosting, PRQ Hosting is operated by the owners of the pirate bay.

In October this year Cleveland Police arrested the owner of OiNK.cd and the web site was closed down, Two alternatice sites quickly sprung up to take over the OiNK legacy What.cd and Waffles.fm, both achieved 1000’s of users in a short period of time and both wer also hosted at Leaseweb in Holland. Leaseweb was one of the most popular hosting companies in the world for bittorrent trackers and had also hosted OiNK before it was taken offline.

In mid November Leasweb droped another bombshell on Bittorrent Owners that were hosting tracker servers with them, notifying the bittorrent tracker owners that they had a deadline of the 1st December to find an alternative hosting home. The source behind the leasweb exodus is the ever resourceful dutch anti-piracy group BREIN.

Leaseweb Forced To Shut Down More BitTorrent Sites

Quote from What.CD

Yes, you’re reading that correctly. A few hours ago, we relocated the entire site to a single server hosted in the prq.se datacenter - with 12 hours left on our leaseweb deadline. The move went quite smoothly (a lot more smoothly than we anticipated), although some users are still experiencing DNS problems.

If you’re having problems accessing the site or the tracker, do this:

1. Check your hosts file. If you edited it when we changed servers before, it’ll still be forwarding the what.cd domain name to the old server. Just remove the what.cd lines, and all should be well.

2. If that doesn’t work, flush dns. In windows, you do this by going start -> run, typing in cmd, then typing in ipconfig /flushdns.

3. If the above two methods have no effect, then your problems are most likely caused by caching in your DNS servers. They’ll be sorted out automatically in the next 12 hours.

Waffles.fm is expected to follow suit and move to sweden in the coming days.

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