XNXX
Type of site
Pornographic video sharing
Founded1997 (1997)
OwnerWGCZ Holding
URLwww.xnxx.com
AdvertisingYes
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

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.

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

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Top Websites Ranking". Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 Woods, Ben (4 March 2016). "The (almost) invisible men and women behind the world's largest porn sites". The Next Web. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Moynihan, Qayyah. "Internet users access porn websites more than Twitter, Wikipedia and Netflix". Business Insider.
  4. ↑ Antipova, Tatiana; Rocha, Álvaro (19 December 2019). Digital Science 2019. Springer Nature. p. 448. ISBN 978-3-030-37737-3.
  5. ↑ Berkens, Michael (24 June 2014). "XNXX.com Loses UDRP On XXNX.com". TheDomains.com. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  6. ↑ "MindGeek is Both Plaintiff and Defendant in Two New DMCA Lawsuits". Forbes.
  7. ↑ "Brussels gears up to tame unruly porn platforms". 17 February 2023.
  8. ↑ Woods, Ben (3 March 2016). "The (almost) invisible men and women behind the world's largest porn sites". TNW | Insider.
  9. ↑ "Here is the full list of 827 porn websites blocked by DoT". The Indian Express. 29 October 2018.
  10. ↑ Patricia Nilsson; Alex Barker; January 20 2023 Knocking on the door of a porn empire, The Financial Times
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