For Fun: Start a porn site

Post by batista » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 2:28 PM UTC

_6tfp wrote: post #4

mooism2 wrote: post #2

I get that perhaps some people are bored with the insistence that companies like Dropbox/Airbnb/etc are just money making machines and arguably (n.b. not my argument) don't make the world a better place... but porn sites seem to make the world a worse place: by making porn users less capable of enjoying ordinary sex (habituation to super-stimuli) and less capable of participation in ordinary sex (increased rates of e…

Censorship on porn is not going to do anything. I don't think it messes up your relation. In some cases it can even boost relationships. And what if porn was censured? There would be a lot more crazy people on the streets.

>And what if porn was censured? There would be a lot more crazy people on the streets.

Historically porn wasn't that available, and no, you didn't have lots more "crazy people on the streets".

In fact, judging from crime rates, depression, substance abuse and such, modern societies are far crazier than 50 years ago.

Post by SageRaven » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 6:35 PM UTC

It amazes me that anyone can make any money on this. For grins, I've been monitoring new .com TLD registrations for the past 2 months. On any given day, you get roughly 50k to 100k new registrations. 99% of those seem to be ad-parked (or whatever the term is (see sexa1.com, registered yesterday -- textually NFSW)) or misconfigured (understandable, I suppose, for a day-old domain).

I'm guessing maybe 0.05% (half of that remaing 1%) are sex related: tube, cam, and image porn aggregation; escort sites.

I find it truly amazing that so much is built on 3rd party content. After watching these new domains for so long, I started thinking: What am I missing? Can I actually make a little bit of passive income with a $10 domain name and a little forum name-dropping? The OP seems to think that people can. Obviously people do.

EDIT: I meant to finish with, I wish the article gave some real revenue numbers. The dude states he has 200 sites, and I'd love to hear a ballpark figure of how much he earns (maybe even a single site), and a direct example to one such site.

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