YNOT – A ruling delivered Thursday in an Illinois circuit court may have far-reaching implications for adult websites and other online destinations that rely on passwords to secure their members-only areas. In fact, according to plaintiff Steve Lightspeed, at least one popular...

YNOT – Internet payment services provider SegPay and Paxum have joined forces to offer SegPay clients access to Paxum’s global e-wallet services. SegPay is the first IPSP to offer Paxum’s popular technology, and the companies believe the alliance will expand the reach of both...

YNOT – CrakRevenue, a multi-channel adult marketing company based in Canada, has launched a second affiliate program. Unlike sister program CrakCash, which focuses on the ex-girlfriends niche, CrakBucks specializes in a broad range of fetish content, a spokesperson said. The...

YNOT – ICM Registry LLC, the organization that oversees the .xxx sponsored Top Level Domain, has applied to create and operate three more adult-oriented extensions under the generic Top Level Domain program recently kicked off by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...

By M.Christian YNOT – A California judge has booted an adult company’s lawsuit against 90 alleged copyright infringers, saying he will not allow the judicial system to become party to what he evidently views as an extortion scheme perpetrated by an attorney who has “no desire to...

YNOT – With pornography’s emergence as one of the hot-button talking points during the 2012 election cycle, software developer Elevated X has decided to put its money where its mouth is and increase its support of child-protection advocacy organization ASACP. According to...

YNOT – Over the past eight years, an annual golf-and-poker tournament organized by the co-owner of a Las Vegas gentlemen’s club has raised more than $1 million for prostate cancer research and patient support. This year’s event, scheduled to take place May 6-7, once...

YNOT – Live webcam site Webcams.com recently added Payoneer as a payout option for models, studios and affiliates. Already about one-third of Webcams’ producers have changed to the Payoneer system, a spokesperson said. Since 2005, New York-based Payoneer has offered secure,...

YNOT – The nomination period for the fourth-annual Blatino Awards is underway. Nominations for the annual celebration of gay ethnic performers, clubs and websites may be submitted through April 30. To submit favorites for consideration, visit BlatinoAwards.com. Public voting will...

YNOT – Public voting for Miss FreeOnes 2012 began Monday. This year’s virtual pageant will award more than $30,000 in prize money to the winners selected from a field of 312 international contestants. Public voting takes place on MissFreeOnes.com. Each voter may vote up to 10...