Microsoft and Washington state are in the process of suing Alpha Red CEO James McCreary. James is the marketer behind “scareware” product Registry Cleaner XP, which falsely leads Windows users to believer that their registries are corrupted.

The AG and Microsoft have filed lawsuits against James Reed McCreary IV of The Woodlands, Texas. The suit names him as the marketer of an application called “Registry Cleaner XP.” Also included in the suit are McCreary’s two businesses, Branch Software of The Woodlands, Texas, which does business as Registry Cleaner XP, and Alpha Red of Houston.

Many other adult websites hosted by Alpha Red are moving off onto other servers or making major backups due to the instability.

I would like to seem some photos first before gauging the valuation of the prize, but make sure you keep your current IP address on hand to check if you are the winner!

• Alexa ranking of the porn star’s official website
• number of Myspace friends
• number of industry awards (AVN, XRCO, FAME)
• popularity in the search engines (i.e. number of searches for the porn star’s name)
• and search engine rankings

Fame Registry certainly has an interesting approach to tackling this problem. The rankings are, for once, not based on some dude’s opinion, and the factors can be objectively weighted in varying degrees to output the most accurate ordered list.

Unfortunately, the idea is great but the execution is poor. So I’m sorry to say that Fame Registry will become another obsolete, abandoned porn site in short time. I hope an enterprising developer will see opportunity in this concept and improve it by several degrees to make the site worthwhile for visitors.

Although the website design is not a pretty sight, that is usually my last complaint because I believe in functionality over design. But it would be proper to state here that Fame Registry needs to lose its polychrome comic slut in the header. WTF is that? The last thing I want while browsing for porn it to be induced into an artificial hallucinogenic state.

Since the core of Fame Registry is the algorithm, it would be great to see some accompanying data and statistics. A typical porn star ranking page looks like this. With nothing about the search engine popularity or number of Myspace friends, which are used to determine the porn star’s ranking.

Also, I am concerned that Fame Registry is updated manually. I expect a more dynamic process of maintaining a huge database of the world’s porn stars and constantly updating the rankings. Not just two or three times a month. It would be cool to see something that mimics the freshness and complexity of Google Trends.

In a different light, this porn 2.0 application is apparently the result of a sparked idea while programming a domain name valuation script:

A friend of mine is big into domaining which is the business of buying domain names at wholesale prices and trying to resale them for a small profit. When helping him write a script to gather data used to value a domain name, I realized the same type of public data could also be used to value a porn star, since like a porn star, the value of the domain name was based on the popularity of the words or names that make up the domain name. For example the word Love is more popular than Hate so the domain name love.com has more value than hate.com. Based on the popularity of the keyword love alone, Love.com is worth millions whereas Hate.com wouldn’t really be worth even $250,000. Those very same concepts apply to porn star names.

Fame Registry is a product of Kelli Internet Services, a network of adult sites including Meggan Malone and Brea Lynn. Kelli has a track record of developing other creative twists to the online adult industry such as Porn Star Trivia.

FAP SERVER is essentially a network of micro-niche free porn sites. FAP SERVER distinguishes itself from other TGP’s :

• offers RSS feeds such as this and this
• does not have any intrusive advertisements (at the moment)
• intuitive navigation and user experience
• does not engage in traffic trading so you don’t have to worry about clicking on that “fake thumbnail”

Thus far, FAP SERVER has 12 micro “Fap” websites, including unique ones like GhettoFap, ETCFap, and RedheadFap. All of these are located on their own unique domain names. Luckily for the founder of FAP SERVER, he was able to grab an entire handful of these *fap.com domain names because the word fap has not yet been exploited by domain squatters.

Is this concept of FAP SERVER scalable? Sure, if it wants to utterly explode its micro niche concept like Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop, then FAP SERVER better grab all possible domain names while it still can since it is not using subdomains. But it may be more worthwhile for FAP SERVER to focus on a dozen or two Fap sites and make sure the updated content is top quality so that visitors keep coming back for more.

Some users have complained about the fact that FAP SERVER only serves up images. Since the inclusion of videos could greatly amplify the amount of daily traffic, the development team may want to consider implementing a Pandora for porn concept in the near future. This would integrate smoothly with its existing interface for browsing pictures.

One aspect of FAP SERVER raises a critical alarm. Where does FAP SERVER obtain its images? Since it does not operate as a traditional TGP which uses affiliate galleries, FAP SERVER may soon be facing a flood of legal notices. Additionally, I don’t see any sign of a 2257 compliance statement which may incite even greater concerns…

Why is Ning doing this? As the year comes to an end, Ning is optimizing its bottom line, especially in today’s horrible economy. In the press release, the company states:

They don’t generate enough advertising or premium service revenue to cover their costs. Plus, our ad partners aren’t big fans of the adult networks and therefore require us to identify adult networks or risk our healthy advertising revenue.

As you may have noticed, Ning runs Google Adsense on all of its free social networks (network creators can pay a monthly fee to remove these mandatory ads). Since Google Adsense does not allow porn ads, this makes for a very awkward context for adult social networks on Ning. Thus, targeted ads do not show up and the company earns zero cents for even a million impressions.

As we all know, the internet is for porn and the massive traffic to a number of these adult social networks are hogging all of the server resources while not paying a dime! Put on top of that having to deal with all the DMCA takedown notices since Ning hosts and facilitates the social technology of sharing videos and photos.

Owners of existing adult social networks on Ning are feeling persecuted, and rightfully so. Ning does not even have a proper export function for these network creators to migrate months and months of user-contributed content. PleasurePrincs on the Ning Developer Forum rants:

Since I have an Adult Site, and being shut down because OTHER Adult sites don’t pay the premium charges, I have to move my content to another social network… We used to have access to our code, but now Ning has made it impossible for us to get to it. Its like being evicted from your property and not being allowed to take your furniture with you.

Although Ning is going back on its word, the decision to kill off all adult social networks is a rational choice. A simple cost-benefit analysis says so. In the meantime, we will have to discover a new social networking platform to create communities for sharing porn. For one thing, it will be difficult for any existing or upcoming web application to measure up to the capabilities once offered by Ning.

Redtube, one of the most popular porn tubes, was hacked today. A Turkish hacker group called NetDevilz defaced the front page of Redtube, leaving their logo and a message that says “No Porn!!! We’re not first but we’re the best.” See below for a screenshot.

We’re interested in learning what was exploited in the tube script to gain access to the Redtube servers. This vulnerability may be present across hundreds of other porn tubes. More on this later.

So is this the final version of Porn.com? The layout and theme still look the same as they always did: awkwardly clean and minimalistic for a porn site. The content is the same too, but I noticed a couple of changed logos and graphics within the categories. Anyway, the company behind Porn.com did a great job making an up-to-date version of the one-stop porn portal with the most expensive domain name ever.

We are still waiting for another top adult industry domain name Sex.com to launch its website. Sex.com seems to be in private beta, whereas Porn.com opened up its beta website to the public to test.

Rapidshare calls itself “1-Click Webhosting” and boasts “210 Gigabit/s of Internet connectivity and 4.5 Petabytes of storage,” and it is one of the most popular online channels through which porn is pirated. Users can upload huge files like DVD rips and zipped up picture galleries to Rapidshare and allow others to enjoy fast download speeds. There are extremely active forums like Lawina Board and PornWz that are dedicated to posting Rapidshare links to high-quality, full-length porn videos.

A lawyer who specializes in the adult industry, Allan Gelbard, was present for the discussion. He recommended that producers should fight back using quick and forceful legal action against the websites that host stolen content.

Gelbard notes that it is important to maintain a database of offending websites while proceeding to send them legal notices to immediately take down the content in question. However, if Gelbard is suggesting that we do this manually, this is not a practical solution because every instance of stolen content is difficult (if not impossible) to keep track of because each spreads virally in all directions through various media.

Instead, the adult industry needs technology like Attributor to fight copyright infringement. Attributor constantly scans the internet to identify unauthorized websites that are stealing your content. You can tell Attributor which content to look out for and the bot will monitor the internet for new instances of your stolen content. Then, directly from the Attributor interface, you can send DMCA Takedown notices to those unauthorized websites.

Attributor is more than an advanced version of Copyscape. It also tracks photos and videos too, which is a critical feature for the adult industry.

A smart entrepreneur should create a service like Attributor that sifts through all the user-generated Porn 2.0 websites to look out for stolen content. Or maybe Attributor can lend its technology to create a specialized service just for porn.