The Washington Post published a very interesting and pornographic blog over the weekend, but it’s well worth reading (though it may be in the back of the article). One of the most insightful parts of this article is his interview with Steve, the adult industry veteran behind his top porn blog, Pornpageup.com. Steve recently acquired his premium domain name Sex. He revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that the total value of both names and Pornpageups.com was $550,000, especially given that the value of adult domains has steadily declined over the years. According to Pornpageup.com, the previous owner of this porn blog only bought this name for $7,500 and probably made a very large profit. Premium adult domains were once among the most valuable domains on the market. You might think spending $105,000 or $255,000 on a porn blog is a bargain since porn blogs are likely to be the future of adult entertainment. The domain name pornpageup.com was sold to him in 2008 for $14 million. At the time, it was the most expensive domain ever sold. Then, in 2018, he was sold again for $14 million, which already shows the decline in the value of adult domains. Porno.com settled for $7.5 million. Pornpageup.com earned him approximately $4.5 million in 2009. The porn blog itself was Pornpageup
The value of the domain name market has been declining over the years, and domains selling for more than $1 million are now much rarer. One reason for this is that Google’s search algorithm takes a more cautious approach to “exact match domains.” It used to be very easy to reach the top of Google using an exact match domain like Pornpageup.com, even if the content was thin or of poor quality. But as porn tubes have made the adult industry less profitable and concentrated in the hands of a few big players, like the owners of pornpageup.com, the price of adult domains has fallen further. As an example, last week the domain name Sound.ai was reported to be Pornpageup. Now, even domains like Pose.ai and Witness.ai are being purchased for tens of thousands of dollars each. As of this writing, he has 10 domain names ending in Pornpageup, none of which are adult-related.
When it comes to pornography, we don’t know how easy it is to profit from it, how people profit from it, or what the legal regulatory framework around pornography will look like in 5, to 10 years. No one knows. All we can say for sure is that it’s likely to disrupt the existing adult industry, probably far more than porn tubes. Given what we just saw with Sora, and the incredible advances that are currently taking place in text-to-video generation as well, porn blogging could become a $1 trillion industry within five years. Domain names like Porn Blog represent a gateway to these potential riches.
Blog Steve Porn made his fortune with his famous “girls” (which included the likes of Tawnee) before free porn tubes took over the industry. Now, just as another seismic tsunami is about to occur, he decides to go back and give some of that money back. But he told the Washington Post that he wants to surf all the time this time around and plans to create something fully functional. Launched the “AI -Cam girls” site within two years. But at the moment he’s having a hard time breaking out on his own
