XNXX
XNXX is a website for sharing and viewing pornographic videos. As of November 2022, it was classified as the 14th 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.
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Type of site | Pornographic video sharing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Owner | WGCZ Holding |
| URL | www |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
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] According to the website, the domain name was first copyrighted in 2000. It is unclear when WGCZ Holding acquired XNXX, as the website's ownership was unknown until WGCZ brought a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy case against a similar domain in 2014.[2][5]
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.[6]
Statistics and data
As of 2018, XNXX was classified as the most visited porn site in Singapore[7] and the fifth most visited porn site in India.[8] As of April 2022, XNXX is the 24th most visited website in Switzerland[9] and the 18th most visited website in Austria,[10] though the majority of its users come from the United States, Egypt, and France. The bounce rate is around 20% and the average user spends around 12 minutes on the site.[11]
See also
References
- "Top Websites Ranking". Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- 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.
- Moynihan, Qayyah. "Internet users access porn websites more than Twitter, Wikipedia and Netflix". Business Insider.
- Antipova, Tatiana; Rocha, Álvaro (19 December 2019). Digital Science 2019. Springer Nature. p. 448. ISBN 978-3-030-37737-3.
- Berkens, Michael (24 June 2014). "XNXX.com Loses UDRP On XXNX.com". TheDomains.com. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- "Here is the full list of 827 porn websites blocked by DoT". The Indian Express. 29 October 2018.
- Chia, Rachel Genevieve (28 September 2018). "People in Singapore watch porn more often than they use WhatsApp Web, Twitter or Insta, according to this site". Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- GQ Staff (30 July 2018). "These are the most popular porn sites in India (and Pornhub isn't even among the top 3)".
- "Alexa - Top Sites in Switzerland - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- "Alexa - Top Sites in Austria - Alexa". 30 April 2022. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- "xnxx.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022.
Further reading
- 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. Routledge. 1 (1–2): 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.