AniRena
| A screenshot of the AniRena Tracker homepage. Top portion of the full page shown. The AniRena Torrent Tracker homepage on November 15, 2019 | |
Type of site | Torrent meta-search engine |
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| Available in | English |
| Created by | Power2All2019 |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank | 181429 (as of November 2019[update])[1] |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2003 |
| Current status | Online |
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AniRena (formerly Shockerz.net, changed to AniRena in 2006) is a BitTorrent website focused on East Asian (Japanese, and Chinese and/or Korean) media. It is one of the oldest public anime-dedicated torrent indexes.
History
In 2003, the Anime and Manga scene was booming, there were a lot of sharing options through IRC, but BitTorrent was still in its infancy. As a starting developer, the owner of one of the biggest anime IRC channels on Rizon.net (#Anime) decided to start a BitTorrent tracker called Shockerz.net and it became very fast popular and big. At that time, there were a handful of other BitTorrent trackers, such as Scarywater (now defunct), TokyoTosho, AnimeSuki (no activity), and BoxTorrents (now known as Nyaa Torrents).
Roughly around 2009, a disaster happened with the hosting party (OVH), which shut down the server, and no good backup was available at that time, and everything was lost that made AniRena what it was. The owner (Power2All) quit the scene for a short moment, to focus on some other things that were important at that time, until some fansub groups requested to bring back AniRena, as it was a pretty useful website.
AniRena was rebooted again in 2012, with a new design and more options and functions that no other tracker had, and at this moment still doesn't have, such as: editing the torrent before submitting and after submitting, DHT enable/disable option after uploading, scraping external tracker, and more.
After 2012 and the reboot, AniRena received various threats like DDoS attacks and some other little scandals that were either false, invalid, or to put AniRena in a bad light.
In 2018, it was mentioned that AniRena was going to get a redesign of the website, and a completely new back-end through the use of an API, to make dealing with external parties simpler and easier. As of this day, it is still being developed.
References
- ↑ "anirena.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
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