| I looked through the internet archive and it looks like this started on June 20th, 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220620143322/https://anonfiles... There never appeared to be more than a few at a time and I did not find too many in total. https://web.archive.org/web/20220620143327/https://bayfiles.... https://web.archive.org/web/20220623051910/https://openload.... https://web.archive.org/web/20220620170814/https://myfile.is... https://web.archive.org/web/20230401012418/https://filechan.... https://web.archive.org/web/20230401012318/https://letsuploa... They also started advertising ovpn.com as a "court-proven VPN" on June 23rd 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220623173752/https://anonfiles... It looks like from June 24th 2022 through August 10th 2023 (or 16th, likely whenever they changed their index to announce the shutdown) they only listed filechan.org and letsupload.cc. On July 4th 2022 they dropped ovpn.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20220704154732/https://anonfiles... All of the file sharing sites listed do appear to be parodies of other popular websites, some of them file sharing. They also appear to all be identical except for the site name and styling. All of the file sharing sites except for anonfiles.com now return NXDOMAIN. (ovpn.com appears to still exist.) The obvious parodies of file sharing websites does call into question their assertion that they didn't want abuse. |