XNXX
XNXX is a French 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 (March 4, 2016). "The (almost) invisible men and women behind the world's largest porn sites". The Next Web. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- Moynihan, Qayyah. "Internet users access porn websites more than Twitter, Wikipedia and Netflix". Business Insider.
- Antipova, Tatiana; Rocha, Álvaro (2019-12-19). Digital Science 2019. Springer Nature. p. 448. ISBN 978-3-030-37737-3.
- Berkens, Michael (2014-06-24). "XNXX.com Loses UDRP On XXNX.com". TheDomains.com. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
- "Here is the full list of 827 porn websites blocked by DoT". The Indian Express. 29 October 2018.
- Chia, Rachel Genevieve (September 28, 2018). "People in Singapore watch porn more often than they use WhatsApp Web, Twitter or Insta, according to this site".
- GQ Staff (July 30, 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. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
- "Alexa - Top Sites in Austria - Alexa". 2022-04-30. Archived from the original on 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- "xnxx.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-17.
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" (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 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. Retrieved 2018-06-04.