In late August 2013, KAT was blocked by Belgian ISPs. Later on 23 June, KAT was delisted from Google at the request of the MPAA. On 14 June, the domain name was changed to Tonga domain name kickass.to as a part of the site's regular domain change. Judge Richard Arnold ruled that the site's design contributed to copyright infringement. On February 28, 2013, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom were ordered by the High Court in London to block access to KickassTorrents, along with two other torrent sites. KickassTorrents on its website claimed that it complied with the DMCA and it removed infringing torrents reported by content owners. In June 2016, KAT added an official Tor network. The site later moved across several different domains, which the operators planned to do every six months, including ka.tt, kickass.to, kickass.so, kickasstorrents.im and kat.cr.
In April 2011, it moved to a Philippine domain kat.ph after a series of domain name seizures by the US Department of Justice against Demonoid and Torrentz. KAT was initially launched in November 2008 at the domain name. In December 2016, former KAT staff members revived the KAT community by creating a website with its predecessor's features and appearance. The site's proxy servers were shut down by its staff at the same time. KAT went offline on 20 July 2016 when the domain was seized by the U.S. It was founded in 2008 and by November 2014, KAT became the most visited BitTorrent directory in the world, overtaking The Pirate Bay, according to the site's Alexa ranking. KickassTorrents (commonly abbreviated KAT) was a website that provided a directory for torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol.
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