Social:XNXX
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Type of site | Pornographic video sharing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Owner | WGCZ Holding |
| Website | www |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
XNXX is a website for sharing and viewing pornographic videos. As of December 2023, it was classified as the 15th most visited website in the world by Similarweb.[1] It launched in 2000 and is currently hosted in Paris, with servers and offices in Montreal , Tokyo and Newark.[citation needed]
XNXX is owned by WGCZ Holding, the same company that runs XVideos, another popular pornographic website.[2]
A Business Insider ranking from 2018 placed it in the three most popular porn sites worldwide.[3]
History
XNXX was founded in 1997.[4] 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.[2][5][6][7]
In March 2016, The Next Web identified WGCZ Holding as a Polish company headed by Stephane Michael Pacaud and Deborah Malorie Pacaud.[8]
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.[9]
In January 2023, The Financial Times reported that WGCZ tube sites XVideos and XNXX receive 6 billion visits a month.[10]
See also
- List of most visited websites
- Pornhub
Further reading
- Mazières, Antoine; Trachman, Mathieu; Cointet, Jean-Philippe; Coulmont, Baptiste; Prieur, Christophe (2014-03-21). "Deep tags: toward a quantitative analysis of online pornography". Porn Studies (Routledge) 1 (1–2): 80–95. doi:10.1080/23268743.2014.888214. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00937745/file/mazieres_pornstudies_2014.pdf.
- Sullivan, Rebecca; McKee, Alan (2015). Pornography: Structures, Agency and Performance. Cambridge: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0745694849. https://books.google.com/books?id=WxbICgAAQBAJ&pg=PT79. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
- Stecklow, Steve (2010-09-17). "On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2018-06-04. https://archive.today/20180604010240/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703904304575497903523187146. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
- 90 percent of the pornographic videos hosted by the four most visited sites in France - Pornhub, HVideos, Xnxx and Xhamster - feature real acts of physical, sexual or verbal violence against women. by Anna Fleck, October 5, 2023 Statista
References
- ↑ "Top Websites Ranking". https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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/.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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/.
- ↑ "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/.
- ↑ "Brussels gears up to tame unruly porn platforms". 17 February 2023. https://www.politico.eu/article/online-porn-websites-europe-regulation-age/.
- ↑ Woods, Ben (3 March 2016). "The (almost) invisible men and women behind the world’s largest porn sites". https://thenextweb.com/news/the-almost-invisible-men-and-women-behind-the-worlds-largest-porn-sites.
- ↑ "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/.
- ↑ Patricia Nilsson; Alex Barker; January 20 2023 Knocking on the door of a porn empire, The Financial Times
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