The recent seizure of the KAT.PH domains have angered a lot of people who rely on the site for illegal downloads (see original story here). In this case, the PH domain was seized (re-pointed to a null destination) causing the site to be inaccessible via the original KAT.PH domain name. dotPH has posted a statement regarding this last June 14: The Philippine Intellectual Property Office (www.ipophil.gov.ph) recently issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) directing dotPH to suspend the domain kat.ph for a period of 72 hours. The complaint alleges that the registrant of kat.ph is violating intellectual property rights by making copyrighted music available for download to its users. dotPH received the TRO earlier this week and subsequently suspended kat.ph in compliance with IPO's directive. Take note that KAT.PH does not actually host the copyrighted content but only the trackers to those content. Earlier this week, torrent site KAT.PH was inaccessible to visitors after the Philippine Government executed a take-down of the country-code top level domain (ccTLD). KAT.PH (used to be kickasstorrents.com) hosts a torrent site for pirated movies, music, software and games. Read more in our articles including "Now that KAT.PH is down, which PH domain is next?" and "PH Government shuts down torrent site Kat.PH ".
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Apr 25, 2026The recent seizure of the KAT.PH domains have angered a lot of people who rely on the site for illegal downloads (see original story here). In this case, the PH domain was seized (re-pointed to a null destination) causing the site to be inaccessible via the original KAT.PH domain name.
dotPH has posted a statement regarding this last June 14: The Philippine Intellectual Property Office (www.ipophil.gov.ph) recently issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) directing dotPH to suspend the domain kat.ph for a period of 72 hours. The complaint alleges that the registrant of kat.ph is violating intellectual property rights by making copyrighted music available for download to its users. dotPH received the TRO earlier this week and subsequently suspended kat.ph in compliance with IPO's directive.
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