One day after The Pirate Bay was forced offline, the BitTorrent tracker declared it would return within two days. This promise was kept, as on June 3, 2006, The Pirate Bay was again online and functioning in the Netherlands. Although its tracking and indexing ability was spotty, it was a public relations triumph over the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and perhaps even more so, Antipiratbyrån (Swedish Anti-piracy Bureau.)

Additionally, The Pirate Bay’s reverse DNS (Directory Name Server) includes a message for the MPAA and Antipiratbyrån.

IP address:                     83.140.176.146
Reverse DNS:                    hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org.
ASN:                            16150
ASN Name:                       PORT80 (Port80 AB, Sweden)
IP range connectivity:          1
Registrar (per ASN):            RIPE
Country (per IP registrar):     SE [Sweden]
Country Currency:               SEK [Sweden Kronor]
Country IP Range:               83.140.0.0 to 83.140.255.255
Country fraud profile:          Normal
City (per outside source):      Unknown
Private (internal) IP?          No
IP address registrar:           whois.ripe.net
Known Proxy?                    No
Link for WHOIS:                 83.140.176.146

“So the site took a trip to the Netherlands, but we got so homesick we just couldn’t take it. We had to go back to beautiful Sweden!” said a blog post published on The Pirate Bay this morning.

“The big plan is to spread the site on different locations all over the world, so it will be…harder to take down. People and companies from various countries have already offered servers, bandwidth and money. It’s almost as the site has its own will (skynet anyone?) and it don’t want to die!”