

A few months later, the Tonic domain name registry was required to do the same. In the summer of 2020, ACE obtained a subpoena that compelled Cloudflare to hand over information on the customer maintaining the Flixtor.to domain. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), which counts Apple, Disney, HBO, Netflix and Sony among its members, has been trying hard to track down the site’s operators. This traffic hasn’t gone unnoticed by Hollywood and other major content creators.

The site is particularly popular in the United States and Canada, which together are good for roughly half of the site’s 26 million monthly visits estimated by SimilarWeb. By offering access to high quality movies and TV-shows, streaming site Flixtor.to has become the go-to destination for many pirates.
