Nyaa released an announcement for users who cannot access Nyaa in the interest of their security and to provide recommendations on how to unblock Nyaa.si. This resulted in those mirrors shutting down and a decent chunk of Nyaa's community being unable to access Nyaa due to ISP blocking in some countries. Some time ago, Nyaa.si started blocking connections from known unofficial mirror sites, since some mirrors provide malicious content including miners, ransomware and are used to hijack Nyaa accounts.

Please pay attention to Nyaa's announcement regarding unofficial malious proxy/morror sites Below is a list of working Nyaa proxies for all popular Nyaa alternatives. However, there were enough proxy pages that made it possible to access the Nyaa pages. Just as the original Nyaa Torrents had problems because its torrent site was blocked in countries around the world, the successors' sites where blocked as well.

All alternative Nyaa websites are providing a mirror of nyaa.si. With around 50 million monthly visitors from all over the world, Nyaa Si is the de facto most popular anime and manga torrent site. The Nyaa.si fork is the only remaining Nyaa torrent index to date. They are followed by the latest projects named Nyaa ISS, Nyaa INK and Nyaa Si. All alternative Nyaa projects had the originals NYAA in their name: Nyaa Pantsu,, Nyaa2 and Nyaa.rip. In the following weeks, several forks were launched, some of which were based on the Nyaa Torrents codebase and the original torrent index. However, they were believed to be based on EU judgments that would jeopardize the proper functioning of Nyaa as it was then.

In an announcement of Nyaa's previous mods, the reasons for the website's shutdown remained unknown. In May 2017 the site's main domains (,, and ) were deactivated. Since Nyaa was the most popular target, anime sites like HorribleSubs, Tokyo Toshokan and AnimeTake were attacked and suffered downtime. At these times almost every famous anime (torrent) site got DDoS attacks.

The torrent site was taken down by various DDoS attacks in 2014. Nyaa torrent site just before it went down in 2017 What does NYAA stands for?

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