In October 2015, the YIFY website went down, with no word from any of the staff or those connected with the site, and no new YIFY releases. The domain name was suspended by the FRNIC registry in March 2015 as a result of legal pressure, and as a result, the website moved to a new domain yts.to by 20 March 2015. The website was reprogrammed at both the frontend and backend in February 2015, as part of a site overhaul to deal with increased traffic. The company was officially dissolved in February 2016.

Yts.re owned a company based in the United Kingdom, officially incorporated on 5 February 2015, with Yiftach taking the role as a company 'programmer'. Management was handed over to the existing team of staff members, and encoding was delegated to a new automated system nicknamed 'OTTO' which would handle future encodes and uploads. 'YTS' is an abbreviation of 'YIFY Torrent Solutions'. The website rebranded to YTS, and moved to a new domain name at yts.re. In January 2014, Yiftach announced that he was retiring from encoding and uploading, mentioning that it was 'time for a change' in his life. This popularity was maintained through to 2015, where it was once again the most searched term on BitTorrent websites. The YIFY name continued to generate traction to the point where in 2013 'YIFY' was the most searched term on Kickass Torrents, along with other related search terms such as 'yify 720p', 'yify 2013' and 'yify 1080p'. A backup website yify-torrents.im was launched for users to bypass this ban. In August 2011, the YIFY brand was gaining enough traffic to warrant the launch of an official YIFY Torrents Website, although it was eventually blocked by United Kingdom authorities. Yiftach is an app developer, web developer and archery champion from Auckland, New Zealand. YIFY Torrents was founded by Yiftach Swery in 2010 while he was studying computer science at University of Waikato. The name 'YIFY' is derived from the name of the founder, Yiftach Swer y. The original YIFY/YTS website was shut down by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in 2015 however, numerous websites imitating the YIFY/YTS brand still receive a significant amount of traffic. YIFY releases were characterised through their small file size, which attracted many downloaders. YIFY Torrents or YTS was a peer-to-peer release group known for distributing large numbers of movies as free downloads through BitTorrent. Defunct as of October 30, 2015 7 years ago ( )

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