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U.S. Seizes More Pirate Sports Streaming Domains, But Iranian Fallbacks Remain

TorrentFreak, July 13, 2026. Pre-positioned fallback domains defeating Operation Offsides seizures: when buffstreams.plus was seized ibuffstreams.app took its place on the same server, and buffstreams.ir, sportsurge.ir and footybite.ir stayed active on a Ukrainian IP, registered years before the operation..

Source type
News report
Published
July 13, 2026
Research grade
S2
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Publisher
TorrentFreak
Published
July 13, 2026
Source type
News report
Research grade
Source grade S2
Language
English
Official record
Not an official publication
Address
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-seizes-more-pirate-sports-streaming-domains-but-iranian-fallbacks-remain/
What it supports
Pre-positioned fallback domains defeating Operation Offsides seizures: when buffstreams.plus was seized ibuffstreams.app took its place on the same server, and buffstreams.ir, sportsurge.ir and footybite.ir stayed active on a Ukrainian IP, registered years before the operation.
Dataset id
src_torrentfreak_offsides_iran_fallbacks_2026

Research notes

  • By Ernesto Van der Sar. JSON-LD datePublished 2026-07-13T09:32:28+00:00, dateModified 2026-07-15T12:24:13+00:00 - published_on is the original 13 July 2026 date.
  • The article's point about .ir domains is that they sit outside practical U.S. reach, not that Iranian operators are involved.
  • The claim that the .ir fallbacks predate the operation by nearly three years is TorrentFreak's own registration-record finding.

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