In October 2015, Portugal bypassed its courts by making a voluntary agreement between ISPs, rightsholders and the Ministry of Culture to block access to KAT and most of the other popular BitTorrent websites. After the removal, the top Google search result for KAT in many locations pointed to a fake KAT site that prompted visitors to download malware. By July 2015, the kat.cr address had been removed from Google Search's results. On 23 April 2015, the site moved to the Isle of Man-based domain kickasstorrents.im but was quickly taken down later that day and on 24 April it was moved to the Costa Rica based domain name kat.cr. On 14 February 2015, it was found that messages mentioning "kickass.to" were blocked on Steam chat, but "kickass.so" and other popular torrent websites were not blocked, only flagged as "potentially malicious". Later that day, the site reverted to its former domain name kickass.to. On 9 February 2015, kickass.so was listed as "banned" on Whois, causing the site to go offline. In December 2014, the site moved to the Somalia domain name kickass.so, reportedly as a result of site's regular domain change. In June 2014, KAT was blocked in Malaysia by the Communications and Multimedia Commission for violating copyright law. In January 2014, several Irish ISPs started blocking KAT, and in February, Twitter started blocking links to KAT, although this was stopped after a few days. 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. Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.Multilingual (30+ languages, English primary language)
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