XNXX

This article contains promotional content. Please help improve it by removing promotional language and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic text written from a neutral point of view. (June 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

French pornographic website

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| xnxx.com
Advertising| Yes
Commercial| Yes
Registration| Optional
Current status| Active

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[update], 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

[edit]

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

[edit]

* Erotica and pornography portal

* List of most visited websites
* Pornhub

## Notes

[edit]

* 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 38282677.1–2&rft.pages=80-95&rft.date=2014-03-21&rft_id=info:doi/10.1080/23268743.2014.888214&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:38282677#id-name=S2CID&rft.aulast=Mazières&rft.aufirst=Antoine&rft.au=Trachman,+Mathieu&rft.au=Cointet,+Jean-Philippe&rft.au=Coulmont,+Baptiste&rft.au=Prieur,+Christophe&rft_id=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00937745/file/mazieres_pornstudies_2014.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:XNXX" class="Z3988">
* 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

[edit]

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

* v
* t
* e

Pornographic video digital distribution and sharing platforms

* Digital library
* Streaming media
* Video on demand

Free|

* Aylo
* Pornhub
* RedTube
* Tube8
* YouPorn
* Bellesa
* WGCZ Holding
* XNXX
* XVideos
* xHamster

Paid|

* Bang Bros
* Brazzers
* Clips4Sale
* Fake Taxi
* FanCentro
* ManyVids
* Mofos
* Naughty America
* OnlyFans
* Reality Kings
* Twistys
* Vixen

Adult camming|

* BongaCams
* CAM4
* CamSoda
* Chaturbate
* LiveJasmin
* MyFreeCams
* Stripchat

Virtual reality|

* BaDoinkVR
* SexLikeReal
* VRPorn.com
* VirtualRealPorn

Social media|

* Sharesome

Defunct|

* Xtube

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template