No ano de 2013 o site piratebay.sx (hospedado em de São Martinho) foi fechado pelas autoridades locais, reabrindo seus servidores na a Ilha de Ascensão, sob o novo domínio piratebay.ac.
Eventos como esse nos levam a pensar o seguinte: são tantos países que não dá pra gravar de cabeça cada pequena sigla que aparece, por isso nada melhor que uma tabela pra consulta com os domínios de internet mais usados no mundo (os EUA usam domínio, já os demais países recebem essas duas letras após o sufixo “.com” ou o específico do tipo de atuação do site como por exemplo “.org” ou “.info”).
| Afganistan | AF | Albania | AL |
| Ilha de Ascensão | AC | American Samoa | AS |
| Algeria | DZ | Angola | AO |
| Andorra | AD | Antartica | AQ |
| Aguilla | AL | Argentina | AR |
| Antigua and Bermuda | AG | Aruba | AW |
| Armenia | AM | Austria | AT |
| Australia | AU | Bahamas | BS |
| Azerbaijan | AZ | Bangladesh | BD |
| Bahrain | BH | Belarus | BY |
| Barbados | BB | Belize | BZ |
| Begium | BE | Bermuda | BM |
| Benin | BJ | Bolivia | BO |
| Bhutan | BT | Botswana | BW |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina | BA | Brazil | BR |
| Bouvet Island | BV | Brunei Darussalam | BN |
| British Indian Ocean Territory | IO | Burkina Faso | BF |
| Bulgaria | BG | Cambodia | KH |
| Burundi | BI | Canada | CA |
| Cameroon | CM | Cayman Islands | KY |
| Cape Verde | CV | Chade | TD |
| Central African Republic | CF | China | CN |
| Chile | CL | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | CC |
| Christmas Island | CX | Comoros | KM |
| Colombia | CO | Cook Islands | CK |
| Congo | CG | Croatia (Hrvatska) | HR |
| Costa Rica | CR | Cyprus | CY |
| Cuba | CU | Czechoslovakia | CS |
| Czech Republic | CZ | Djibouti | DJ |
| Denmark | DK | Dominican Republic | DO |
| Dominica | DM | Ecuador | EC |
| East Timor | TP | El Salvador | SV |
| Egypt | EG | Estonia | EE |
| Equatorial Guinea | GQ | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | FK |
| Ethiopia | ET | Fiji | FJ |
| Faroe Islands | FO | France | FR |
| Finland | FI | French Guyana | GF |
| France (European Territory) | FX | French Southern Territories | TF |
| French Polynesia | PF | Gambia | GM |
| Gabon | GA | Germany | DE |
| Georgia | GE | Gibraltar | GI |
| Ghana | GH | Greenland | GL |
| Greece | GR | Guadaloupe (French) | GP |
| Grenada | GD | Guatemala | GT |
| Guam (US) | GU | Guinea-Bissau | GW |
| Guinea | GN | Haiti | HT |
| Guyana | GY | Honduras | HN |
| Heard and McDonald Islands | HM | Hungary | HU |
| Hong Kong | HK | India | IN |
| Iceland | IS | Islamic Republic of Iran | IR |
| Indonesia | ID | Ireland | IE |
| Iraque | IQ | Italy | IT |
| Israel | IL | Jamaica | JM |
| Ivory Coast | CI | Jordan | JO |
| Japan | JP | Kenya | KE |
| Kazakhstan | KZ | Kuwait | KW |
| Kiribati | KI | Laos | LA |
| Kyrgyzstan | KG | Lebanon | LB |
| Latvia | LV | Liberia | LR |
| Lesotho | LS | Liechtenstein | LI |
| Libya | LY | Luxembourg | LU |
| Lithuania | LT | Macedonia | MK |
| Macau | MO | Malawi | MW |
| Madagascar | MG | Maldives | MV |
| Malasya | MY | Malta | MT |
| Mali | ML | Martinique | MQ |
| Marshall Islands | MH | Mauritius | MU |
| Mauritania | MR | Micronesia | FM |
| Mexico | MX | Monaco | MC |
| Moldavia | MD | Montserrat | MS |
| Mongolia | MN | Mozambique | MZ |
| Morocco | MA | Namibia | NA |
| Myanmar | MM | Nepal | NP |
| Nauru | NR | Netherland | NL |
| Netherland Antilles | AN | New Caledonia (French) | NC |
| Neutral Zone | NT | Nicaragua | NI |
| New Zealand | NZ | Nigeria | NG |
| Niger | NE | Norfolk Island | NF |
| Niue | NU | Northern Mariana Islands | MP |
| North Korea | KP | Omã | OM |
| Norway | NO | Palau | PW |
| Pakistan | PK | Papua New Guinea | PG |
| Panama | PA | Peru | PE |
| Paraguay | PY | Pitcairn | PN |
| Philipines | PH | Polynesia (French) | PF |
| Poland | PL | Puerto Rico (US) | PR |
| Portugal | PT | Reunion (French) | RE |
| Qatar | QA | Russian Federation | RU |
| Romania | RO | Saint Helena | SH |
| Rwanda | RW | Saint Lucia | LC |
| Saint Kitts Nevis Anguilla | KN | Saint Tome and Principe | ST |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | PM | Samoa | WS |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VC | Saudi Arabia | SA |
| Saint Martin | SX | San Marino | SM |
| Senegal | SN | Seychelles | SC |
| Sierra Leone | SL | Singapore | SG |
| Slovak Republic (Slovakia) | SK | Slovenia | SI |
| Solomon Islands | SB | Somalia | SO |
| South Africa | ZA | South Korea | KR |
| Soviet Union | SU | Spain | ES |
| Sri Lanka | LK | Sudan | SD |
| Surinam | SR | Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands | SJ |
| Swaziland | SZ | Sweden | SE |
| Switzwerland | CH | Syria (Syrian Arab Republic) | SY |
| Tajikistan | TJ | Taiwan | TW |
| Tanzania | TZ | Thailand | TH |
| Togo | TG | Tokelau | TK |
| Tonga | TO | Trinidad and Tobago | TT |
| Tunisia | TN | Turkey | TR |
| Turkmenistan | TM | Turks and Caicos Islands | TC |
| Tuvalu | TV | Uganda | UG |
| Ukraine | UA | United Arab Emirates | AE |
| United Kingdom | UK | United States of America | US |
| United States Minor Outlying Islands | UM | Uruguay | UY |
| Uzbekistan | UZ | Vanuatu | VU |
| Vatican City State | VA | Venezuela | VE |
| Virgin Islands | VI | Wallis and Futuna Islands | WF |
| Western Sahara | EH | Yemen | YE |
| Yugoslavia | YU | Zaire | ZR |
| Zambia | ZM | Zimbabwe | ZW |