A top 10 popular torrent sites list of 2006
As we’re close to New Year, I decided to put up a comprehensive list of torrent site that were popular in year 2006.
The criteria I used to evaluate these torrent sites were; ease of use and searching, speed of access, information provided about the files, information provided about the current torrent status etc. Moreover traffic ranking was taken into account for the list.
1. Mininova.org
Mininova is simple to use and biggest torrent listing sites. The site started in January 2005 as a successor SuprNova, It is a directory and search engine for all kinds of torrent files. Visitors of mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this site, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. The word ‘mininova’ ranked 9 on Google’s list of most queried terms in 2006. Mininova is our top picks for this year.
2. TorrentSpy.com
TorrentSpy is a popular BitTorrent indexing Web Site. It hosts torrent and provides a forum to comment on them, as well as a graphical portrayal of how healthy the torrents are. Torrentspy was as popular as Mininova and made it to 2nd place.
3. ThePirateBay.org
The Pirate Bay (often abbreviated TPB) is an Internet site that bills itself as the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, and also serves as an index for torrent files that it tracks. Due to BitTorrent’s ability to handle extremely large files, it is popular for sharing large music sets, movies and software as well as Linux distribution discs.
4. isoHunt.com
isoHunt is a popular BitTorrent index. isoHunt is one of the most popular search engines for BitTorrent links. The website has been sued for copyright infringement recently. Isohunt has a large collection of varied content.
5. Demonoid.com
Demonoid is a popular private BitTorrent tracker for the peer-to-peer distribution of files. The website features a publicly accessible search engine, although membership is required to download more than three torrents per week. Demonoid will allow user registration only on Friday’s. Demonoid is a private BitTorrent tracker, however it also indexes external torrents that make us to place them in 5th place.
6. Torrentz.com
Torrentz is a popular Torrent indexing and Torrent search engine. It does not help to track your torrents. The torrent search engine is more advance as it allows you to search for files within the torrents. If you’re looking for unique stuff you should prefer this site.
7. TorrentPortal.com
Torrent Portal is famous for holding large number of active torrents. The search feature gives powerful options to its users. The torrent portal is ad supported for standard Free members.
8. TorrentBox.com
TorrentBox is your best source for the greatest torrents. TorrentBox also lets users to track their torrents. TorrentBox also features a forum, directory and simple search engine for torrents.
9. TorrentReactor.to
TorrentReactor has the comprehensive listing of torrents. The site claims it has the most active torrents. TorrentReactor was much popular in the beginning of year, but still managed a position in the top list.
10. TorrentScan.com
TorrentScan is gaining popularity these days. TorrentScan scans across all the popular bit torrent search engines. It has comprehensive collection of torrent search engines, which make the user to get their required torrent with ease.
Special mention goes to Seedler.org was one of the popular torrent search site and my favorite during the start of year. It has lost completely the popularity now because of reliability issues.
Warning: BenH.org is not accountable and responsible for the content of any site that has been listed above.
I think flixflux.co.uk is one to look out for in 2007!
I believe – btjunkie.org is #1 in number of Torrents
I’m surprised snarf-it.com isn’t on there.
TPB is Number 3???
TPB is entirely the best torrent tracker!
You have to give TPB credit for the “Legal Threats” section… lol
Nice list, I had never heard of any of these (I just used the standard bittorrent app), will look into these!
I think torrent-kingdom.net is a good one
Ben,
Might be the case in 2007; the list was for 2006:)
Seth,
btjunkie.org is one of the popular torrent site, but it was more popular is the last part of 2006 not during the beginning days.
Beren,
Hmm…. snarf-it.com is not even existent. Guess you’re referring snarf-it.org!!! the fact is snarf-it.org didn’t make to top 10 itself.
Sam,
I agree, TPB is one of the best torrent sites. but that does mean it has to make it to top 1. Read my evaluation criteria.
Anitha,
Sure you need to use this sites if you’re searching for good shared content on web.
Anon,
Might be good one but it seems relatively new and didn’t make to top 10
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scrapetorrent.com
seems to search most torrent sites, and it has a firefox plugin!!
nice Blog ben: Great work
Great work ben
Are you into blogging every day?
it’s a shame, meganova.org should definitely be included
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why not pop in to 3realms-torrents.net we are a new site only ben open less than a week and are looking for staff uploaders and first line support
we are a nice friendly site and alway treat our members with the respect they deserve so if you sick of other site that just use you and abuse you why not come by and say hello
@Huan,
Thanks for sharing the link. Scraptorrent has clean and neat interface.
@Anon/ indian girl ,
Would you mind to stop spamming? I have filtered most of the comments 🙁 Still I appriciate your visit 🙂
@newstone,
I guess you forgot the mention the reason. Why meganova shoud be listed?
@hellsowner
You got a place to post your ad 🙂 I’m not sure if you managed to get any staff 😉
Friends the best torrent website is yatorrent.com.ar no registrarion required, and all torrent that you need
bye bye 🙂
Check this: Ajax based meta-search engine for torrent files.
torrenttab.com
Try this SloTorrent.net
torrents are too slow. rapidshare is where its at. rapidforums.net
rapidshare is rubbish for constant use, alright once in a while but you have a limit to how much you can download unless you pay, all these torrent sites are free. if you don’t pay when you have downloaded something you have to wait ages to download again. would definitely say that torrents is the second best way to download after newsgroups and the best free way to download.
The hyper linking provided in the comments are removed since there was lot of human SPAM activity. The site name mentioned are not removed it is up to the readers to make the call.
As long as Mininova is still around, that will be one and only choice to go with.
Yepiii.. It is the one which has clutter-free interface.!!
stormin-torrents.com
this is a nice site to got good speed and new torrents
sitetorrents.org
This is a new site, and it’s nice
stryke8 and Martinsen, Thanks for dropping in. BTW, I had to remove the anchor even though I have left your site name there.
soz bud can you explain the had to remove the anchor im new to this thanks in advance
New torrent site, bringing the latest movies, music, games, apps & more, a great community with friendly staff……..try it out 🙂
stryke8 – I had to do that way just to avoid getting this page spammed.
Kinnster – Good Luck!
amazing list…
I use some of those sites myself. I’ve found Torrentz and Mininova to be the best!
cyberst0rm’s tech blog
http://cyberst0rm.blogspot.com
Jake – Thank you.
Cyberstorm – Mininova seems to be all time best 🙂
the following are the best torrent sites:
BTJunkie
MiniNova
PirateBay
MegaNova
Demonoid
TorrentPortal
TorrentReactor
meetthegem – I’m pretty sad Mininova made to your list 🙁
Mininova is the second best torrent site ever! Suprnova rocked so much back in the day, but mininova does a good job in covering for it!
Tech Rant – You’re correct. To date Mininova is the best.
You can watch movies and tv online, why download
webtvandvideo.com
because streaming things over the internet is not as good quality as actually downloading and watching them. plus not all people watch the things they download on their pc like me, i download copy to disk and play on my divx player attached to the tv. plus alot more available when downloading not everything is posted to youtube ect.
Hopefully, torrentomega.com can make the 2007 list… try it out. Let me know what you think.
tess / shell – I have to agree with shell's point here! quality matters!
Jeff Oneile – Let the hopes be high!
Samples for Music Production torrentsmpl.org
Thousands of loops, sounds and samples to download for the music production.
What happened to Demonoid ? Did it change url ?
i will try out most of these sites….. but have any of you tried out filelist.org nice site fast dl’s
also torrent damage.net stil kicks arse…..
i prefer sign up sites they always seem to have better quality sooner :O)
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best bittorrent list, and if you want you can add any torrent site there! yust use the shotbox and the admin will add your link soon 🙂
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Another great site is onlytorrents.com
I use http://torrentpump.com/ for search the torrents.
try new trorrent search engine http://torrenturls.com/
I found this site 2day. they say it will take over for thepiratebay
http://www.thelostbay.org
its on its way. its closed community but you can get invites in the beginning.
go to irc. irc.rizon.net @ #TLB
or mail to : [email protected] and ask for an invite =)
gogogogo . wont last 4 ever =)