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XNXX

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XNXX
Type of site
Pornographic video sharing
Founded1997; 28 years ago (1997)
Country of originFrance[1]
OwnerWGCZ Holding
Founder(s)
  • Stephane Michael Pacaud
URLxnxx.com
AdvertisingYes
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Current statusActive

XNXX is a Czech-French[2][3] pornographic video sharing and viewing website. It was founded in 1997[4] in Paris, with servers and offices in Montreal, Tokyo and Newark.[citation needed] As of July 2025, it is the 42nd-most-visited website in the world and the fourth most-visited adult website after Pornhub, XVideos, and XHamster.[5]

XNXX is owned by WGCZ Holding, the same company that runs XVideos, another popular pornographic website.[6]

A Business Insider ranking from 2018 placed it in the three most popular porn sites worldwide.[7]

History

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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.[6][8][9][10]

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.[11]

In January 2023, The Financial Times reported that WGCZ tube sites XVideos and XNXX receive 6 billion visits a month.[12]

See also

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Notes

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  • 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

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  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". Financial Times. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  4. ^ Antipova, Tatiana; Rocha, Álvaro (19 December 2019). Digital Science 2019. Springer Nature. p. 448. ISBN 978-3-030-37737-3.
  5. ^ "Top Websites Ranking". Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  6. ^ a b 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.
  7. ^ Moynihan, Qayyah. "Internet users access porn websites more than Twitter, Wikipedia and Netflix". Business Insider.
  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. ^ "Here is the full list of 827 porn websites blocked by DoT". The Indian Express. 29 October 2018.
  12. ^ Patricia Nilsson; Alex Barker; January 20 2023 Knocking on the door of a porn empire, The Financial Times
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