Whois & Analysis for graycity.net

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text.

The chat process works on a client/server networking model.

IRC clients are computer programs that a user can install on their system.

These clients communicate with chat servers to transfer messages to other clients.

IRC is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called , but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.

BitTorrent is a communications protocol of peer-to-peer file sharing ("P2P") which is used to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet.

BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, such as digital video files containing TV shows or video clips or digital audio files containing songs.

Peer-to-peer networks have been estimated to collectively account for approximately 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on location).

In November 2004, BitTorrent was responsible for 25% of all Internet traffic.

As of February 2013, BitTorrent was responsible for 3.35% of all worldwide bandwidth, more than half of the 6% of total bandwidth dedicated to file sharing.