YIFY has gained tremendous popularity in 2014.
Also its Pirate Netflix app Popcorn Time is pretty famous and uses the YTS API.
The rising popularity seems to be one of the reasons for the suspension of the domain by French authorities.
It was very nice of FRNIC to give us more than a week prep time.
I see too many cases were the registrar closes an account without warning, the YTS admin says.
source: www.techworm.net