YNOT – With the rapid spread of online piracy, many affiliates and programs are driving massive amounts of traffic and resources toward original content that cannot be pirated: immersive, live, interactive experiences. In order to give webmasters and talent a hand up into the...

YNOT – Chris Lebrun, Claudio Menegatti, Mark Harrison, Pete Housley and Tony Schehtman — all veterans of the adult online industry — have joined the sales and marketing team at dot-xxx registrar ICM Registry. ICM announced the personnel additions Friday. Lebrun, formerly an...

YNOT – ManList, a gay dating site powered by affiliate network DatingGold, and muscle-bear aficionado Butch Dixon have entered a cross-promotional partnership that will see Dixon’s hairy, masculine men featured in ManList’s marketing materials. According to the companies, the...

YNOT – The beta version of a software development kit for the RealTouch interactive, computer-assisted sex toy is available to select developers, the company announced this week. RealTouch seeks qualified business partners to build the toy’s functionality into their products....

By Marc Jarrett YNOT – At about this time last year, I needed the services of a family lawyer. Eventually I found, met and paid one, but I remember thinking at the time that I would have preferred to have paid on a per-minute basis for a telephone consultation if such a service...

YNOT – Business-to-business content licensing marketplace AdultCentro Market has introduced several new tools and more content types to help both buyers and sellers monetize their consumer-facing production efforts. A new storage tool for sellers makes content uploading faster...

YNOT – Fetish studio Kink.com plans to launch a new site May 11, featuring submissive women living their fantasy bondage-and-gangbang encounters. BoundGangbangs.com is the third BDSM-themed website for director Princess Donna, who feels the material adds a new twist to the...

YNOT – Los Angeles-based Metro Entertainment LLC, one of the largest adult content distributors in the U.S., has added former performer Tori Welles to its marketing team as a sales associate. A company spokesperson said Metro believes Welles’ experience on both sides of the lens...

YNOT – Kenya will block the new adult-content-specific dot-xxx sponsored Top Level Domain, a high-level cabinet member said Tuesday. Addressing the media as part of the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, Information and Communication Permanent Secretary Dr. Bitange...

YNOT – Bangladesh’s cabinet has approved the country’s first-ever anti-pornography legislation. Under the new code, which still must pass muster in parliament before it becomes law, those who make or distribute sexually explicit material could face up to 10 years in prison. “We...