 The Nyaa homepage on April 29, 2017 | |
Type of site | Torrent meta-search engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| URL | www |
| Registration | Optional |
Nyaa Torrents (named for the Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat's meow) was a BitTorrent website focused on East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean) media. It was one of the largest public anime-dedicated torrent indexes.[1][2]
In 2011, some of the site users were targeted for copyright infringements.[3] The site was a target of a large DDoS attack in early September 2014.[4]
On 1 May 2017, their .se, .eu and .org domain names were deactivated, with the site's moderators later confirming that the owner took it down voluntarily.[5][6][7]