US number 1 in hosting erotic and porn websites

August 14 2013 - In News

Believe it or not, the United States hosts 428 million porn and erotic pages. That is  60 per cent of all sex related sites hosted worldwide. California is the heartland of the US porn industry, churning out 66 per cent of all content made in the States. Runner up is The Netherlands. According to web safety expert John Carr, the liberated cultural factors of The Netherlands plays a big role in the score. But also factors like the cost of hosting on web servers are part of the numbers.

Figures show that the Dutch host more web pornography than any other European country. According to the survey compiled by Paul Walsh of family-friendly web product specialist Metacard, more than 187 million pages of web porn are hosted in Holland, even though the population is just 17 million. Also in in terms of the number of adult-only domain names registered on the country's servers, the Netherlands is way ahead of its European neigbours. It has nearly two million (1,836,104) domains for X-rated content. The UK have just over half a million. The UK, which has more than four times the population of the Netherlands, hosts a quarter of the amount of internet porn (52 million internet pages).

Germany (80 million people) ranks behind Britain in hosting web pornography, but only accounts for 1 percent of the total figure, with 8.2 million pages and just over 80,000 million domains. John Carr: "Germany has very strict and particular rules about hard core porn web sites hosted on their turf. They require the publishers to have age verification mechanisms in place. I'm guessing that more than anything discourages a lot of rough trade."

France has 5.5 million pages being hosted and around 55,000 domains.

Worldwide ranking

1. The United States
2. The Netherlands
3. The United Kingdom
4. Germany
5. France

Source: International Business Times