Court Orders Porkbun and Other Registrars to Hand Over PornXP Domains to Aylo

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Court Orders Porkbun and Other Registrars to Hand Over PornXP Domains to Aylo

https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-porkbun-and-other-registrars-to-hand-over-pornxp-domains-to-aylo/

Let’s talk about the internet’s most stubborn porn site—and how a court just got really serious about shutting it down.

Aylo (yes, the company behind Pornhub) spent years chasing Alex Abdullaev, a guy in Kyrgyzstan who ran PornXP—a site sucking up 17 million monthly visitors and, Aylo claims, costing them $172M/month in lost subs. When they couldn’t serve him in person? They went full legal ninja: sued, won a $30M default judgment… then got cut down to $10.2M because, hey, not every visitor was gonna pay.

But the real win? Seizing the domains. Or so they thought.

Enter Porkbun, a U.S.-based domain registrar that said: “Nice order… but it only says ‘registries.’ We’re registrars. Not our problem.” Cue courtroom drama. Turns out, in internet land, registrars (who sell domains) and registries (who run the backend) are two different beasts—and the court’s first order accidentally left registrars off the hook.

Aylo didn’t blink. They came back with an amended order, naming Porkbun, NameSilo, and others directly. Judge Settle signed it. Now they’re being forced to hand over control to EuroDNS, who’ll hand it to Aylo.

Some foreign domains (.eu, .me) still live—courts can’t reach them easily. But the U.S.-based ones? Going dark soon.

Turns out, taking down a porn site isn’t about just blocking videos. It’s about who owns the web address… and who’s legally forced to give it up.