(NL- I’m thinking Brazzers should buy LIB, yes my Alexa is not as good as YouPorn.com, but my price is WAY better! I wanna know how much they paid, anyone know?)
YouPorn.com One Of The 100 Most Visited Site On The Net Is Sold
(ty jd)
by MHB of http://www.thedomains.com
According to Xbiz.com, One of the most visited sites in the world has just been sold.
YouPorn.com has an Alexa rank of 81, being the 81st most visited site on the net.
Compete.com shows the site as receiving almost 10,000,000 monthly visitors.
“The buyer of the site is Montreal-based Manwin, which owns Brazzers among many other blue-chip brands in adult entertainment, also said it purchased YouPornGay.com and YouPornCocks.com in the deal with Curacao-based Midstream Media International N.V.”
“Manwin officials did not disclose the purchase price.”
“We feel it is a complimentary acquisition to our network of sites,” says Fabian Thylmann, Manwin’s managing partner. “YouPorn is a pioneer site that has a strong and loyal following.
“We intend to grow the site in the spirit it was created in and the diligence it was maintained with.”
I for one would love to know the price on this site.
Manwin hides who the real owners are. The US Govt. has been investigating them for a while. Supposedly they have ties to Middle East Terrorists and thats why they hide who the real owners of the company are.
Fabian Thylmann, in the old days, would be hiding from the friends of the Valley. These days he can buy the show and not have to worry about anyone except the IRS and maybe some bad dudes in Eastern Europe, though that recent raid by the Ukranian Cops on Europe’s largest torrent site. That stinks to high heaven cause of where it is, there had to be some heat on them to do something, either from within the business or the invisible hand of the US Govt looking for tax avoidance, which means this is more than just porn…like Karmafan said.
OK…but why the hell would Middle East terrorists want to buy a freakin’ porn tube site?? Are they that hard up for cash after Obama had bin Laden offed?? I mean, they couldn’t get any from the Saudis??
More than likely, this is to stifle the thievery of legit sites by tubes…or, it’s just Brazzers getting paid again. I’d put my money on the latter.
Anthony
What’s funny also about all this is that Manwin is buying this and that and getting business to run sites for companies like Wicked, while other companies are using lawyers to run after the little guys. Allison at Pink Visual is going after Brazzers, but what is it costing her and the company, and of course Thylmann is legitimizing tube sites he owns. Its almost like he’s running a protection racket in addition to everything else.
This is a repost from last summer…
Protective Order Sought in $6.4M Seizure Case
By Rhett Pardon, XBIZnewswire.com
Mon, Jul 19 2010 06:15pm PDT
ATLANTA — Attorneys for Mansef Inc. and its Premium Services Inc. division have filed a protective order motion seeking to seal government-requested interrogatories and documents in its attempt to regain $6.4 million seized by the Secret Service.
Mansef said in a court filing that its negotiations with the government in the past three and a half months “have proven fruitless” and that they are unable to continue without the protective order.
The Montreal company said it is seeking the protective order only so it can answer the government’s questions without disclosing vital information regarding how Mansef structures and runs its business, including profit margins, supplier and customer rates and investment decisions.
The government’s interrogatories also probe into Mansef’s relations with business partners, including involvement with affiliates, and the types of content on its websites, as well as credit card processor statements.
But Mansef said that without the protective order, the answers would then be used by other adult entertainment companies to exploit their own interests.
“Disclosure of the rates that claimants charge to their clients and money generated by their websites as well as the financial agents they choose would be incredibly valuable information to competitors in ascertaining the methods that afford Mansef such success,” Mansef attorneys said.
“If competitors had access to the business strategies of a major market player such as Mansef, they could easily imitate Mansef’s structuring, marketing tactics and pricing, thereby maximizing their own business profits and efficiency, and thus considerably undercutting Mansef’s competitive advantage.”
Just as important, Mansef attorneys argue, the disclosure of customer data may expose it to liability under European privacy laws, specifically the European Data Privacy Directive.
Mansef attorneys propose that they provide documentation on European users by substituting a moniker for each user.
“So long as the identity of the website from which the revenue was generated can be determined, the government should be able to decide whether or not the seized funds were derived from legitimate business enterprises, without having to invade the privacy of claimants’ users, regardless of their geographic location or the local privacy laws which apply.”
Mansef’s fight for seized funds began late last year after it set up Atlanta-based Premium Services to facilitate payments from its third-party credit card processors into the accounts and to allow the company to remit funds out of two checking accounts to its U.S. vendors.
The Secret Service claims in court documents that Premium Services was not registered with the federal Treasury Department nor with the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance as a money-transmitting business.
Federal authorities noted in court documents that for three months last year Premium Services received $9.4 million in wire transfers from various sources and that much of the funds originated overseas in countries such as Israel, considered by law enforcement to be at high risk for money-laundering activity.
U.S. authorities claim that the funds in two accounts are forfeitable under 18 U.S.C. § 981 (a)(1)(A) as property involved in or traceable to a transaction in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1960, which prohibit’s unlicensed money-transmitting businesses. Mansef and Premium Services deny they are in that line of business.
A federal judge has not yet decided on Mansef’s and Premium Service’s joint motion for a protective order.
Mansef is parent company of Brazzers.
Money Launderers
Youporn wasnt purchased because of their alexa rank, that has nothing to do with it, only a COMPLETE moron puts any faith in an alexa rank. What they looked at was the server logs and the keyword traffic and the ad revenue
YouPorn sucks. Much better tubes out there. Just shows you how much success can be built on a name.
As far as Manwin and terrorists, doesn’t that sort of violate the moral and religious code of an extremist? How can they kill themselves with suicide bombs in the name of Allah and all that is right, then turn around and do dealings with a porn venture? I thought islamic countries executed pornographers.