Anime piracy networks are falling one after the other as yet another major website in the ecosystem has officially bitten the dust.
Per TorrentFreak, AniGo has become the latest pirate anime streaming service to be taken down following legal measures taken by copyright holders. The website had originally gone dark earlier this year in May, with the site’s administrators claiming at the time that the service disruption had occurred due to their data center burning down. This initially led users to believe that the platform would resume its operations at a later date.
However, these expectations were futile, as WHOIS records have now revealed that AniGo’s domain has been placed on “clientHold” status, which means that the site has been suspended or frozen, in response to an order issued by the Delhi High Court. This development comes just days after reports emerged that the operators of HiAnime have been arrested.
AniGo Domain Suspended in Response to Court Order
AniGo’s domain was linked to the Kingdom of Tonga, which administers the .to country-code top-level domain. While the country has historically served as a digital safe haven for online piracy operations due to lack of proper frameworks, that situation has changed recently.
For decades, the registry of .to domains was operated by the U.S.-based Tonic Domains Corporation under a system that lacked WHOIS services and could not apply Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) status codes, which made it hard to take any sort of action against infringing sites.
However, after the Canadian domain company Tucows took over the registry backend for .to domains, it introduced suspension capabilities that previously did not exist. This allowed the Kingdom of Tonga to apply the “clientHold” status code to AniGo, effectively disabling the portal.
The Delhi High Court had originally issued the order in question in December 2025 in response to a lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment and the Motion Picture Association. Both the Kingdom of Tonga and the AniGo website were listed as defendants in the order. Although the Indian court lacks direct jurisdictional authority over the country, it complied with the mandate to disable AniGo’s primary web portal.
Despite facing technical issues since May 2026, AniGo managed to attract approximately 1.5 million visitors in the month of June, according to data from SimilarWeb. While the .to domain has been successfully taken down, a mirror operating under .ro extension remains online.
Interestingly, around the same time that AniGo went dark, Animekai and other prominent anime sites likewise ceased their operations, citing the reason that their data centers had burned down, which made it impossible for them to continue operations. In addition to Animekai, 2026 has also seen other major illegal anime streaming sites being removed, including HiAnime, the Anime Play app and various mirror websites of 9anime.
In addition to pirate anime streaming websites, rightsholders have also managed to shut down multiple manga piracy platforms this year. The biggest casualties in this case were Bato and TuMangaOnline going dark.
