Type of site | Internet pornography |
|---|---|
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
ThisAV is a internet pornography sharing website hosted in Hong Kong since 2009. [1] The site mainly hosts contents in Chinese and Japanese; access is free-of-charge and a registration is optional but not required. [2] The website served one million unique IP addresses per day, in 2015, according to its founder; about 15% and 60% of those IPs are from Hong Kong and Japan, respectively. [3]
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]
The founder self-identifies as a 1980s Hongkonger that started practicing web hosting since highschool. [3] During the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing wave of unemployment, they looked for earning opportunities outside the job market. Thinking a pornography website may be popular, they started ThisAV 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]
During the 2012 Moral and National Education controversy and the ensuing Scholarism movement, the website went offline for a day, on September 1, 2012. [2] The website instead displayed a message, in support of the Scholarism movement, "the Hong Kong government should listen to those Scholarism kids and the 90,000 protesters on the streets". [10] The website included a blue ribbon in its logo after the 2014 attack on reporter Kevin Lau. [11] Later that year and during the Umbrella Movement, the website changed its logo to black-and-white overlaid by a yellow ribbon; it also posted an article mocking 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] The website resumed its activities with a new domain name later that year. [15]