XNXX

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 August 2024^[update], it is the 39th-most-visited website in the world and the third most-visited adult website after Pornhub and XVideos.^[5]

XNXX

Screenshot Registration page
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 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

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 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

• Erotica and pornography portal

• 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