I was hoping the article would go into a little* bit more detail about how they manage to be so resilient, to be honest.

* where little means "any"

Their recent documentary TPB:AFK was pretty interesting and a worthwhile watch on a slow day.

Speaking of resilience, I wrote a paper [1] 3 years ago about how to rebuild torrent sites (like TPB) within a couple hours of a denial of service (legal or otherwise) using the Vuze client's DHT. There was some similar concurrent work [2] on the Mainline DHT by Aaron Grunthal. I'd be interested to find out whether anyone has applied it for that application.

[1] "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit." https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dht-woot10.pdf [2] "Efficient Indexing of the BitTorret Distributed Hash Table." http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.3681v1.pdf

In a very sarcastic turn of events, I cannot access the article. Instead it shows: "This website is offline. No cached version is available"

Can the control over domain names be decentralized to prevent it be single point of failure? Bitcoin may do it for curreny.

.onion pseudo TLD may be the first step in evolution. But the names are 16-bit hashes making it too long and complex.

though a good article, I fail to see anything "new" in it, compared to what we already know.