diff --git a/searx/engines/kickass.py b/searx/engines/kickass.py
index 8b89e1f47..f2ede034e 100644
--- a/searx/engines/kickass.py
+++ b/searx/engines/kickass.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ categories = ['videos', 'music', 'files']
 paging = True
 
 # search-url
-url = 'https://kickass.so/'
+url = 'https://kickass.to/'
 search_url = url + 'search/{search_term}/{pageno}/'
 
 # specific xpath variables
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ def request(query, params):
 def response(resp):
     results = []
 
+    if resp.is_redirect:
+        return results
+
     dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
 
     search_res = dom.xpath('//table[@class="data"]//tr')