📰 New article from TorrentFreak
Anna’s Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-pm-domain-adds-greenland-gl-backup/
Ever feel like you’re watching a high‑stakes game of digital whack‑a‑mole? That’s Anna’s Archive these days—one day its .org address disappears, the next a .pm domain gets “blocked,” and now the library is sprinting to a Greenland backup.
The trouble started when Spotify and several record labels sued the shadow archive for planning to dump hundreds of terabytes of scraped Spotify data, full tracks included. A New York court slapped a preliminary injunction on domain registrars, forcing the .org, .se and .in sites offline. French registry AFNIC shrugged—U.S. orders don’t bind France—so the .pm takedown likely came from Dutch registrar Openprovider after pressure from Dutch anti‑piracy group BREIN.
Undeterred, Anna’s Archive registered annas‑archive.gl this week, using the same Njalla/Immaterialism setup that powers its .li domain. Greenland’s .gl registry is a clever dodge; it’s far removed from U.S. jurisdiction and has historically resisted takedowns (think The Pirate Bay’s brief .gl stint).
Bottom line: Anna’s Archive is still online—just hopping between domains—while the music industry keeps firing legal arrows. Stay tuned; the next domain could pop up anywhere with a decent DNS record.