XNXX

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XNXX

Type of site	Pornographic video sharing
Founded	1997; 28 years ago (1997)
Country of origin	France[1]
Owner	WGCZ Holding
Founder(s)	Stephane Michael Pacaud
URL	www.xnxx.com
Advertising	Yes
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Current status	Active

XNXX is a French[2][3] pornographic video sharing and viewing website. It was founded in 1997 in Paris, with servers and offices in Montreal, Tokyo and Newark.^[citation needed] As of August 2024^[update], it is the 39th-most-visited website in the world and the third most-visited adult website after Pornhub and XVideos.[4]

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

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

History

XNXX was founded in 1997.[7] 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][8][9][10]

In March 2016, The Next Web identified WGCZ Holding as a Polish company headed by Stephane Michael Pacaud and Deborah Malorie Pacaud.[11]

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.[12]

In January 2023, The Financial Times reported that WGCZ tube sites XVideos and XNXX receive 6 billion visits a month.[13]

See also

• List of most visited websites
• Pornhub

Notes

• Mazières, Antoine; Trachman, Mathieu; Cointet, Jean-Philippe; Coulmont, Baptiste; Prieur, Christophe (21 March 2014). "Deep tags: toward a quantitative analysis of online pornography" (PDF). Porn Studies. 1 (1–2). Routledge: 80–95. doi:10.1080/23268743.2014.888214. S2CID 38282677.
• Sullivan, Rebecca; McKee, Alan (2015). Pornography: Structures, Agency and Performance. Cambridge: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0745694849. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
• Stecklow, Steve (17 September 2010). "On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 4 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
• 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

1. "Les sites internet les plus visités au monde" [The most visited websites in the world]. fr.statista.com (in French). Claire Jenik. November 2019. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
2. "Could XVideos Cause The End Of All Adult Production?". 15 October 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
3. "Knocking on the door of a porn empire". 19 January 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
4. "Top Websites Ranking". Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
5. 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.
6. Moynihan, Qayyah. "Internet users access porn websites more than Twitter, Wikipedia and Netflix". Business Insider.
7. Antipova, Tatiana; Rocha, Álvaro (19 December 2019). Digital Science 2019. Springer Nature. p. 448. ISBN 978-3-030-37737-3.
8. Berkens, Michael (24 June 2014). "XNXX.com Loses UDRP On XXNX.com". TheDomains.com. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
9. "MindGeek is Both Plaintiff and Defendant in Two New DMCA Lawsuits". Forbes.
10. "Brussels gears up to tame unruly porn platforms". 17 February 2023.
11. Woods, Ben (3 March 2016). "The (almost) invisible men and women behind the world's largest porn sites". TNW | Insider.
12. "Here is the full list of 827 porn websites blocked by DoT". The Indian Express. 29 October 2018.
13. Patricia Nilsson; Alex Barker; January 20 2023 Knocking on the door of a porn empire, The Financial Times