As of Monday, well-known BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is back online. Three months ago, the tenacious tracker was chased out of its Ukrainian host, likely under pressure from American authorities. It may also have been driven offline due to a denial of service attack.

According to the IP address linked to the tracker, the new host appears to be physically located in Hong Kong. The website, meanwhile, remains down.

TorrentFreak points out that in previous closures, Demonoid's tracker appeared before its website came back online, indicating that the site's return may be coming soon.

“In 2007 and 2009 Demonoid suffered similar downtime episodes and at the time the tracker reappeared several weeks before the site,” TorrentFreak wrote.

As we noted previously, the United States Trade Representative mentioned Demonoid by name (PDF) on its Notorious Markets List in a government report dated December 2011. That report also noted that the site’s administrator had been arrested “recently” on the authority of the Mexican attorney general—the admin has reportedly been operating out of Mexico.