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A number of these mirrors have since been taken down. These have no connection to the original team who have been urging users to exercise caution. Following the seizure of the original KAT domain multiple unofficial mirrors have been put online.
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The remaining domains were taken offline voluntarily after the KAT.cr domain name was seized. Artem Vaulin ( Ukrainian: Артем Ваулін), a 30-year-old Ukrainian man known online as "tirm", was detained in Poland after being charged with a four-count U.S. On 20 July 2016, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had seized the KAT.cr domain and had identified its alleged owner. Notice displayed on KickassTorrents sites after its seizure. One of the main domains of the site went up for sale in August 2016. Both blocks were later removed after KAT dealt with the concerns. In April 2016, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox blocked KAT due to phishing concerns. At the same time, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox blocked access to KAT because of security concerns with some of the ads pointing to malware. In October 2015, Portugal bypassed its courts by making a voluntary agreement between ISPs, rightsholders and the Ministry of Culture to block access to KAT and most of the other popular BitTorrent websites.
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After the removal, the top Google search result for KAT in many locations pointed to a fake KAT site that prompted visitors to download malware. By July 2015, the kat.cr address had been removed from Google Search's results. On 23 April 2015, the site moved to the Isle of Man-based domain kickasstorrents.im but was quickly taken down later that day and on 24 April it was moved to the Costa Rica based domain name kat.cr. On 14 February 2015, it was found that messages mentioning "kickass.to" were blocked on Steam chat, but "kickass.so" and other popular torrent websites were not blocked, only flagged as "potentially malicious". Later that day, the site reverted to its former domain name kickass.to. On 9 February 2015, kickass.so was listed as "banned" on Whois, causing the site to go offline. In December 2014, the site moved to the Somalia domain name kickass.so, reportedly as a result of site's regular domain change. In June 2014, KAT was blocked in Malaysia by the Communications and Multimedia Commission for violating copyright law.
In January 2014, several Irish ISPs started blocking KAT, and in February, Twitter started blocking links to KAT, although this was stopped after a few days. In late August 2013, KAT was blocked by Belgian ISPs. Later on 23 June, KAT was delisted from Google at the request of the MPAA. On 14 June, the domain name was changed to Tonga domain name kickass.to as a part of the site's regular domain change. Judge Richard Arnold ruled that the site's design contributed to copyright infringement.
On February 28, 2013, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom were ordered by the High Court in London to block access to KickassTorrents, along with two other torrent sites. KickassTorrents on its website claimed that it complied with the DMCA and it removed infringing torrents reported by content owners. In June 2016, KAT added an official Tor network. The site later moved across several different domains, which the operators planned to do every six months, including ka.tt, kickass.to, kickass.so, kickasstorrents.im and kat.cr.
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In April 2011, it moved to a Philippine domain kat.ph after a series of domain name seizures by the US Department of Justice against Demonoid and Torrentz. KAT was initially launched in November 2008 at the domain name.