Manga Sites KaliScan and MGJinx Go Offline After Registrar Suspends Domains

Manga piracy sites KaliScan and MGJinx have been unreachable since early October. Registry records show that their domain registrar, NameSilo, suspended both domains at the same time. Both parties haven't announced why.

Users began reporting both sites down around October 9. Neither site has posted an explanation, and no rights holder or anti-piracy group has claimed a role.

Same registrar, same second

Registry records for kaliscan.io and mgjinx.com list both domains with the status "client hold". For both, the status was last changed on October 6 at 10:13:19 UTC, down to the second. The Internet Archive captured KaliScan's homepage working normally the day before.

A client hold tells the registry to take a domain out of the DNS, so it no longer resolves. ICANN describes it as an uncommon status, usually applied during legal disputes, for non-payment, or when a domain is about to be deleted.

Neither domain had expired. Both are registered until 2027. They also use the same pair of Cloudflare nameservers, which suggests they may be managed from the same account.

ManhuaScan, renamed

KaliScan was not a new site. Internet Archive's captures show that manhuascan.io, home of a manga site called ManhuaScan, redirected to kaliscan.io by June 2024, a few weeks after the new domain was registered. The old domain now shows a parking page.

MGJinx has used mgjinx.com since April 2024. The two sites shared the same page layout, with titles ending in "Best Manga Online Reader" and the same footer.

Similarweb estimates that kaliscan.io received about 4.7 million visits in September and mgjinx.com about 4.4 million. Traffic estimates for the sites vary widely: Semrush puts both several times higher.

The United States sent the largest share of visitors to both sites, according to Similarweb: about a fifth of KaliScan's traffic and more than half of MGJinx's. India, France and the Philippines followed for KaliScan.

Hundreds of thousands of takedown requests

Rights holders had been targeting both sites for some time. Google's Transparency Report shows requests to remove about 299,000 kaliscan.io URLs from its search results between May 2024 and April 2026, and about 139,000 mgjinx.com URLs between April 2024 and April 2026.

Most of those requests were filed for Korean webtoon companies. WEBTOON Entertainment, part of the Naver group, accounts for the largest share on both domains, with 222,576 URLs for kaliscan.io and 65,108 for mgjinx.com. Kakaopage, Naver, RIDI and Lezhin also appear among the top copyright owners.

Manga publishers filed too. Japan's Kodansha and US publisher Viz Media are among the copyright owners for both domains.

Google's public data currently runs only to early May, so it does not show whether anything changed in the months before the suspension. A search of the Lumen Database, which collects takedown notices, found notices sent to Google but none addressed to NameSilo. Not every notice is published there.

An unusual step for a registrar

Copyright complaints usually go to the company hosting a site, not to its registrar. NameSilo's abuse policy says the company does not decide copyright disputes and will not consider copyright complaints unless a court of adequate jurisdiction directs it to.

For complaints that concern its own services, NameSilo says it asks the registrant to respond within 72 hours and may act if there is no response and it finds a violation of its terms, according to its abuse procedures.

It is not known which of these routes, if either, led to the holds on the two domains.

Readers lose their bookmarks

On Reddit, readers say they lost bookmarks for hundreds or thousands of series that they kept on the sites. One long-time reader wrote that they had used the site since its ManhuaScan days.

Others advised using tracking sites or reader apps that keep the reading lists separate from a single site.

As of October 15, both domains remain on hold.