News report

# 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

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**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/](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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## Cited by

### Later activity

1 citation

Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.

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[Pirate sports streaming fallback domains (.ir and other TLDs)](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/operation-offsides-2026-fifa-world-cup-streaming-domains)

Same operators, Operation Offsides (2026 FIFA World Cup streaming domains)

Later outcome

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