The Washington Post published a very interesting and detailed article about porn blogs last weekend. It’s worth reading (though it may be behind a paywall). One of the most insightful parts of this article is his interview with Steve Lightspeed, an adult industry veteran and the man behind his top porn blog his generator pornoproxy.com is. He also recently acquired a premium his domain name porn proxy. He told the Washington Post that he spent a total of $110,000 on both companies and DeepFakes.com. This is a significant amount, especially considering that the value of AdultHis domain has been steadily decreasing over the years. According to pornoproxy.com, Pornoproxy’s previous owner purchased the name for just $7,500, likely making a very large profit. Premium adult domains were once one of the most valuable domains on the market. You might think spending $100,000 or $250,000 on a porn proxy is a bargain, since porn blogs are likely to be the future of adult entertainment. The domain name sex.com was sold to him in 2005 for $14 million. At the time, it was the most expensive domain ever sold. It was then sold again in 2013 for $13 million, already indicative of the declining value of adult domains. In 2015, Porno.com sold for his $8.8 million and Porn.com sold for his $9 million. FreePorn.com was sold in 2008 for approximately $4.5 million. The porn proxy itself sold for just $7,500 in 2018. 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.” In the past, exact match domains like ExpensiveYachts.com and ShemaleVideos.com made it very easy to reach the top of Google, even with thin or poor content. However, as PornTube reduced the profits of the adult industry and concentrated it in the hands of a few large companies, such as the owners of Pornhub.com, the price of the adult domain fell further. As an example, last week it was reported that the domain name Sound.ai was sold to him for $250,000. Now, even domains like Pose.ai and Witness.ai are being purchased for tens of thousands of dollars each. As of this writing, 10 domain names ending in .ai are in this year’s top 30 domain name sales, none of which have anything to do with adults. When it comes to porn his blog, how easy is it to profit from it, how do people do it, what will the legal and regulatory environment look like in 5 years, 10 years, etc. No one knows. All we can say for sure is that it’s likely to disrupt the existing adult industry, perhaps much more than PornTube. Given what we just saw with Sora, and the incredible advances that are currently taking place in text-to-video generation as well, it seems likely that within five years porn blogging will be a trillion dollar industry. There is a possibility. Domain names like Pornproxy represent a gateway to these potential riches. Steve Lightspeed made quite a fortune with his famous “Lightspeed Girls” (which included Tawny Stone and Jordan Capri) before free porn tubes took the industry by storm. Now, just as another seismic tsunami is about to occur, he has made the decision to go back and give some of his funds back. But he wants to surf the web all the time this time around, telling the Washington Post that he plans to have a fully functioning “AI camgirl” on his site within two years. However, he is currently struggling to break even, even though his membership base has grown to over 500,000 registered users (my affiliate stats show that I have 63,000 registered users). Most of them are from my list of top porn blogs
