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ThisAV is a internet pornography sharing website hosted from Hong Kong, established in 2009.[1] Contents uploaded are mainly in Chinese or Japanese, and are freely available to non-registered users.[2] In 2015, the owner claimed to receive around 10 million daily visitors from a million unique IP addresses per day. About 15% and 60% of those IPs originate from Hong Kong and Japan, respectively.[3]
The site owner claims to be a 1980s Hongkonger, with a background in web hosting since their highschool times.[3] They established the site during the 2008 financial crisis, being unable to find a satisfying career while seeing the potential popularity of a pornography website.[1]
The site became temporarily inaccessible since January 2023, showing its domain name to be on sale when accessed.[4] After its reactivation,[when?] the logo of "MissAV" is displayed instead of its typical one, when accessed from a mobile browser.[5][6]
FANZA, a subsidiary of DMM.com, announced its acquisition of MissAV and ThisAV's .com domain name in January 2025. The company claimed to have tookover the site through legal actions.[7]
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History
ThisAV was established in 2009.[1]
The website's theme music, To You That I can't Forget, is created in collaboration with Hong Kongese band ToNick in 2011.[1][8][9]
The website was taken offline temporarily on September 1, 2012, in protest of the Moral and National Education controversy and supporting the Scholarism movement.[2] The message "our government should consider the voice of those Scholarism kids and 90 thousand protesters on the streets" was displayed on the webpage instead.[10] The website included a blue ribbon in its logo after the attack on reporter Kevin Lau.[11] Later during the Umbrella Movement, its typical logo became black-and-white, overlaid with a colored, yellow ribbon. It also released an article satirizing the 8·31 decision.[12][13]
In January 2025, a US regional court ruled against the owner of ThisAV in absentia, and requested the transfer of ownership for both missav and thisav's .com domain name to the Japanese corporation Will.[14] That same month FANZA announced its takeover of the two domain name through legal actions.[7]
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