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<strong>YNOT</strong> – Even during an economic downturn when many people find themselves spending fewer hours relaxing and more hours trying to make ends meet, Americans still make time for sex. That’s the conclusion venerable erotic products retailer Adam & Eve reached following its most recent survey of American sexual attitudes and behaviors.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Xobile, the mobile adult content platform owned by AEBN, has re-launched after a massive redesign. The product now features a new look, new technology and expanded content categories. AEBN plans to add an affiliate program and additional billing options this year.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – From March 8-21, FNCash will pay affiliates a 10-percent bonus on all orders originating from Fleshjack.com. Fleshjack is the male product line developed by award-winning adult toy company Fleshlight.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Jasper Duncombe, 41, is one of Britain’s most successful pornographers. The press tagged the owner of London-based producers and distributors Tongue in Cheek and Relish XXX “the porn baron.”

<strong>YNOT</strong> – There’s something in the water in Utah — something that insists every software developer with time on his hands take a full-frontal approach to the “problem” of digital porn.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Ralph Greco Jr., contractor in the South Florida online marketing agency <a href=http://www.pearlywrites.com/ target=new>PearlyWrites</a> LLC, has signed on to write a weekly column for popular New York City lifestyle and entertainment blog <a href=http://www.shortandsweetnyc.com/ target=new>shortandsweetnyc.com</a>. Greco’s column, “Sex Files,” debuted Feb. 11 and since has featured tranny porn studio Trans-Glam Productions, uniquely sensual Valentine’s Day gifts, toys for men and women, and the passionate folks at Babeland. His take on the subjects is decidedly un-stodgy, partly because Greco has a background in the adult industry.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – MakeBank has acquired rival adult affiliate program PerSignup. As part of the merger, MakeBank added 38 niched websites to its portfolio. The new sites are now part of MakeBank’s new tiered payout plan that offers webmaster as much as $50 per sale when they send their traffic to mobile and traditional tours.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Through the end of March, Montreal-based webcam affiliate network LiveBucks is offering a special increased payout: Receive $100 for each new sign-up sent via the program’s SuperFeeds contents plugin. The offer is not constrained by minimum commitments or sales targets, but affiliates must select the pay-per-sale option within their accounts.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Vivid Entertainment Co-Chairman Steven Hirsch isn’t a particularly shy man, and the mainstream media is eternally grateful. On Monday, Hirsch dished about the recession and porn — and porn’s recession — to Hollywood observer <a href=http://www.thewrap.com/article/porn-king-tells-how-turn-porn-around-10978 target=new>TheWrap.com</a>. At the forefront of the industry both offline and on the web, Vivid has maintained profitability even in rough times, and Hirsch remains optimistic about the future.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – As a quick scan across the Internet will tell you, porn is changing. Alt.porn is just the beginning. The Playboy world of busty blonde babes belongs to yesterday – unless you’re into vintage porn.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Thank goodness the days of cheesy, bongo-drum based porn music are long gone, but is the world really ready for a porn musical?

<strong>YNOT</strong> – When third-party biller iBill went belly up in 2006, it left a cadre of online adult entertainment merchants gnashing their teeth and bemoaning the loss of boatloads of unpaid revenue. Three and one-half years later, a new company bearing the same name and employing some of the same folks has vowed to make good on at least some of those debts.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – During its second year in existence, the Barcelona Summit (Feb. 19-21) attracted 435 participants from 30 countries, leading its organizers to declare the event a rousing success.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – PunkBucks, a new affiliate program devoted to the alt-porn niche, launched in late February. In the works for more than a year according to its developers, the program went live with one pay site, but others are expected to launch soon.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – ICM Registry LLC President Stuart Lawley is a patient man. He has waited seven years for ICANN to breathe life into the dot-xxx sponsored Top-Level Domain ICM wants to manage.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – A whitepaper published Friday reveals a fascinating glimpse into data webmasters can use to plan and implement their own mobile initiatives in the adult entertainment space. Created by affiliate program <a href=http://www.topbucksmobile.com/ target=new>TopBucks Mobile</a>, the data contained in the report offers insight into adult and general market forces, prognostication about trends and conclusions regarding future growth potential.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – After announcing its acquisition of web-to-TV movie provider VUDU on Monday, Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant Wal-Mart announced it would shutter the service’s adult entertainment channel.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Eleven million domain names were registered during the fourth quarter of 2009, bringing the total number of registered domains to more than 192 million, according to a report on the state of the domain-name industry published this week by internet infrastructure provider VeriSign Inc.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Sexier.com, a new webcam site from the developers of PussyCash and ImLive, launched Wednesday. As part of the grand opening, affiliate program Partners Sexier kicked off a competition that will reward top performers with cash bonuses totaling $10,000.

<strong>YNOT</strong> – Sex.com, the most notorious URL in the history of the web, will hit the auction block March 18 after owner Escom LLC defaulted on a debt to the website’s financial backers. New Jersey-based DOM Partners LLC, a financial services firm that specializes in web-based property, has ordered a foreclosure sale in hopes of recouping at least some of its investment.