1. The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay is probably the best known BitTorrent brand on the Internet. The site was founded in 2003 and is still expanding, despite the immense legal witch hunt launched by the entertainment industries several years ago.
Alexa Rank: 76 / Compete Rank: 412 / Last year #1
2. Torrentz
Torrentz has been the leading BitTorrent meta-search engine for years. A few weeks ago the site traded in its .COM domain and switched to .EU, but this didn’t affect the site’s traffic.
Alexa Rank: 164 / Compete Rank: 927 / Last year #2
3. IsoHunt
Last year was a tough one for isoHunt, as it became the first search engine that had to implement a keyword filter provided by the MPAA. Despite this setback, isoHunt is still the third largest torrent site in terms of traffic. In 2011, isoHunt hopes to get rid of the filter through the Appeals Court.
Alexa Rank: 194 / Compete Rank: 2,154 / Last year #3
4. KickassTorrents
KickassTorrents was the fastest growing newcomer of last year, and managed to continue this upward trend throughout 2010. The site released many new features and continues to innovate, still without a single banner ad on the site.
Alexa Rank: 289 / Compete Rank: 897 / Last year #11
5. BTjunkie
BTjunkie had a pretty quiet year, which is usually good news for a site that operates in the BitTorrent niche. The only setback was the removal of the site’s front page from Google due to a DMCA complaint. As last year, BTjunkie settles in fifth place.
Alexa Rank: 299 / Compete Rank: 987 / Last year #5
6. Demonoid.me
The impossible happened. Demonoid finished 2010 with only a minimal amount of downtime, compared to weeks or months in previous years. A few weeks ago the site announced that it would move from the familiar .COM to a .ME domain in response to the news about US domain seizures.
Alexa Rank: 465 / Compete Rank: 1,647 / Last year #20
7. ExtraTorrent.com
ExtraTorrent is one of those robust torrent indexes that don’t make the news very often. In 2010 it continued to expand and the site gained two spots compared to last year.
Alexa Rank: 519 / Compete Rank: 2,208 / Last year #9
8. TorrentDownloads.net
TorrentDownloads is in the same league as ExtraTorrent, a no nonsense torrent index that provides torrents to millions of users each month.
Alexa Rank: 736 / Compete Rank: 1,119 / Last year #7
9. TorrentReactor
TorrentReactor fooled most of the tech press last year when it announced that it had bought a Russian town, one of the better PR stunts seen in 2010. On the flipside TorrentReactor seems to have lost some traffic due to a Google penalty, dropping the site to 9th place this year.
Alexa Rank: 1,088 / Compete Rank: 1,972 / Last year #6
10. LimeTorrents.com
LimeTorrents is the best newcomer of 2010 in terms of traffic, which promises a lot for the new year. The site went live half a year ago and already made it into the top 10 in this short period. It’s also a bit ironic as ‘Limewire’ got shutdown a few months ago.
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