de.xhamster.com will be banned in Germany
 

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/xhamster-porno-sperre-1.5540844

Xhamster will be banned in Germany.
According to different articles from different sites, this only affects the domain de.xhamster.com
I don't know, if all news agencies understood it wrong, or if only the de-subdomain will be blocked.

Time will tell ll.

The site is banned long time ago. They are using de.xhamster2.com

No.
de.xhamster.com currently works. So it's not banned yet, but will be on the near future.

They were never blocked.
All of those ISPs are going to hire law firms, I bet they never will block access to Xhamster or any other porn site.

This is Google translation of the article for the lazy people:

The media authorities of the federal states have decided to block the porn portal xHamster. The decision was made unanimously, said the Commission for Youth Media Protection (KJM) of the media authorities on Thursday. The notifications with the request to block the offer "de.xhamster.com" for retrieval from Germany have already been sent to the five largest German network operators. They could still appeal against it.

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High-reach porn portals are threatened with network bans for disregarding the protection of children and young people. Things are getting tight for a provider.

The KJM found that the freely available pornographic offer from xHamster violated the protection of minors and was therefore illegal. The media authority of North Rhine-Westphalia had unsuccessfully requested the operators of the portal to introduce an age check for users . When asked, xHamster said network blocks were "far from an optimal solution". Through them, young people would only switch to smaller sites where they would be exposed to more extreme content. The company is willing to work with the German authorities and use age verification. But this must be done across the industry.

porn will never die

But why target xHamster specifically?
Do other tubes have age checks in Germany?

They target many sites all the time. Just different.

Many tubes get kicked from the SERPs because of their (German Youth Media Protection) requests.
It´s a known thing.
Very bad Google is helping them!

Then your domain disappears from the SERPs, you just have to change your domain name and after 2-3 weeks you get your rank back slowly.
Of course, inform Google about your domain change.

If you are lucky, that´s it. But maybe they will request the de-indexing another time and a 3rd time :upsidedow
It´s a cat and mouse game you eventually can win, because they just give up after few attempts.....
But it´s stupid because you "lose" good domains who keep being de-indexed by Google.
More or less they are burned.

If you want to know more about it, you have to contact Thommy.
He was helping many webmasters from a German adult webmaster forum back in the day.
He knows best how to deal with de-index issues and how to get the rank back for your site in case that happens! :winkwink:

Wow great info thank you! :thumbsup

Yes, that is correct,
but they are talking about ISP blocking in this article and not about Serps ban.

I think ISP blocking happens just once a time in the past.

And I think at that time thousands of customers canceled their Internet contracts
with the ISPs who helped with the blocking.

So that the ISPs had to lift the blocks after a short time.

Greetings Beaver

I believe Pornhub, YouPorn and MyDirtyHobby have lodged a complaint
with the responsible administrative court, which was rejected.
But the blocking procedure has been extended as a result.

Xhamster has not responded to the proceedings.

Greeting Beaver

Yes, I know.
PornNerd asked why they target Xhamster specifically.
So I just explained they target sites all the time. Just different.
Normally it´s just the SERP ban, not ISP block.

Yes that's bad.

It's a shame that consortiums like the KJM which only appeared decades
after the first porn sites on the DACH Internet,
now have so much power to block sites.

But once a year, they probably have to shout out loud to justify their million euro budget!

I think that for each such blocking, many new mirrors will be installed