In 2012, the primary .org domain was seized by the US Department of Homeland Security (Operation in Our Sites). The community splintered. Some moved to a .net mirror; others abandoned ship entirely.
As satellites become more advanced, the data gets bigger. Downloading a full mosaic of a continent at 30cm resolution is a petabyte-scale challenge. Cloud providers charge immense "egress" fees to download this data. The BitTorrent protocol offers a solution for massive data migration between researchers without the bottleneck of a single server.
The Ganges-Brahmaputra system behaves like a massive torrent swarm:
While the site has been active for years, its availability can fluctuate. Prospective users often monitor forums like OpenTrackers for open signup announcements. 2. The Geospatial Data Movement: GeoTorrents.org