XNXX is a Czech-French

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and viewing website. It was founded in 1997 in

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, with servers and offices in

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XVideos XVideos, stylized as XVIDEOS, is a Czech-French pornographic video sharing and viewing website. Founded in Paris in 2007, the website is now registered to the Czech company WGCZ Holding. , it is the 25th- most-visited website in the world and th ...

. XNXX is owned by WGCZ Holding, the same company that runs

, another popular pornographic website. A ''

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'' ranking from 2018 placed it in the three most popular porn sites worldwide.

History

WGCZ Holding's ownership was first revealed in 2014 when WGCZ brought a

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case against a similar domain in 2014. In 2018, the

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blocked XNXX, among other porn websites, after a

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'' reported that WGCZ tube sites

and XNXX receive 6 billion visits a month. Patricia Nilsson; Alex Barker; January 20 202
Knocking on the door of a porn empire
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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

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