diff --git a/searx/engines/kickass.py b/searx/engines/kickass.py
index 8b89e1f4..8b7e2457 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 +45,11 @@ def request(query, params):
 def response(resp):
     results = []
 
+    # check if redirect comparing to the True value,
+    # because resp can be a Mock object, and any attribut name returns something.
+    if resp.is_redirect == True:
+        return results
+
     dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
 
     search_res = dom.xpath('//table[@class="data"]//tr')
diff --git a/searx/tests/engines/test_kickass.py b/searx/tests/engines/test_kickass.py
index 3c20a97e..971d0847 100644
--- a/searx/tests/engines/test_kickass.py
+++ b/searx/tests/engines/test_kickass.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class TestKickassEngine(SearxTestCase):
         params = kickass.request(query, dicto)
         self.assertIn('url', params)
         self.assertIn(query, params['url'])
-        self.assertIn('kickass.so', params['url'])
+        self.assertIn('kickass.to', params['url'])
         self.assertIn('verify', params)
         self.assertFalse(params['verify'])
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class TestKickassEngine(SearxTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(type(results), list)
         self.assertEqual(len(results), 1)
         self.assertEqual(results[0]['title'], 'This should be the title')
-        self.assertEqual(results[0]['url'], 'https://kickass.so/url.html')
+        self.assertEqual(results[0]['url'], 'https://kickass.to/url.html')
         self.assertEqual(results[0]['content'], 'Posted by riri in Other > Unsorted')
         self.assertEqual(results[0]['seed'], 10)
         self.assertEqual(results[0]['leech'], 1)
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ class TestKickassEngine(SearxTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(type(results), list)
         self.assertEqual(len(results), 5)
         self.assertEqual(results[0]['title'], 'This should be the title')
-        self.assertEqual(results[0]['url'], 'https://kickass.so/url.html')
+        self.assertEqual(results[0]['url'], 'https://kickass.to/url.html')
         self.assertEqual(results[0]['content'], 'Posted by riri in Other > Unsorted')
         self.assertEqual(results[0]['seed'], 10)
         self.assertEqual(results[0]['leech'], 1)