XNXX

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XNXX is a Czech-French[1][2] pornographic video sharing and viewing website. It was founded in 1997[3] in Paris, with servers and offices in Montreal, Tokyo and Newark. As of July 2025, it is the 42nd-most-visited website in the world and the fourth most-visited pornography website after Pornhub, xHamster, and XVideos.[4]

XNXX is owned by WGCZ Holding, the same company that runs XVideos.[5]

A Business Insider ranking from 2018 placed it in the three most popular porn sites worldwide.[6]

History

WGCZ Holding's ownership was first revealed in 2014 when WGCZ brought a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy case against a similar domain in 2014.[5][7][8][9]

In 2018, the Government of India blocked XNXX, among other porn websites, after a Uttarakhand High Court court order demanding the same in a rape case where the perpetrators stated they were motivated to do so after watching online pornography.[10]

In January 2023, The Financial Times reported that WGCZ tube sites XVideos and XNXX receive 6 billion visits a month.[11]

See also

Notes

References

  1. "Could XVideos Cause The End Of All Adult Production?". 15 October 2022. https://mikesouth.com/legal/could-xvideos-cause-the-end-of-all-adult-production-73718/. 
  2. "Knocking on the door of a porn empire". Financial Times. 19 January 2023. https://www.ft.com/content/cc9ab3c5-bfe1-40d0-862d-c35123ceaf1c. 
  3. Antipova, Tatiana; Rocha, Álvaro (2019-12-19) (in en). Digital Science 2019. Springer Nature. pp. 448. ISBN 978-3-030-37737-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=0tzFDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22xnxx%22+%22pornography%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA448. 
  4. "Top Websites Ranking". https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Woods, Ben (March 4, 2016). "The (almost) invisible men and women behind the world's largest porn sites". The Next Web. https://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/03/the-almost-invisible-men-and-women-behind-the-worlds-largest-porn-sites/. 
  6. Moynihan, Qayyah. "Internet users access porn websites more than Twitter, Wikipedia and Netflix" (in en-US). https://www.businessinsider.com/internet-users-access-porn-more-than-twitter-wikipedia-and-netflix-2018-9. 
  7. Berkens, Michael (2014-06-24). "XNXX.com Loses UDRP On XXNX.com" (in en-US). https://www.thedomains.com/2014/06/24/xnxx-com-loses-udrp-on-xxnx-com/. 
  8. "MindGeek is Both Plaintiff and Defendant in Two New DMCA Lawsuits". https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelthomsen/2015/11/30/mindgeek-is-both-plaintiff-and-defendant-in-two-new-dmca-lawsuits/. 
  9. "Brussels gears up to tame unruly porn platforms". 17 February 2023. https://www.politico.eu/article/online-porn-websites-europe-regulation-age/. 
  10. "Here is the full list of 827 porn websites blocked by DoT" (in en). 29 October 2018. https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/here-is-the-full-list-of-827-porn-websites-banned-by-the-dot-5421127/. 
  11. Patricia Nilsson; Alex Barker; January 20 2023 Knocking on the door of a porn empire, The Financial Times