ThisAV
Type of site | Internet pornography |
|---|---|
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
ThisAV is an Internet pornography sharing website hosted in Hong Kong, first launched in 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 taken over the site through legal actions.[7]
History
[edit]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]
In January 2025, FANZA, a subsidiary of DMM.com, announced that it had acquired the “.com” domain names of MissAV and ThisAV. The company claimed that it had seized these sites through legal action. Also in January 2025, FANZA announced the seizure of the “.com” domains for MissAV and ThisAV. In response, the sites continued operating under new domains. However, in April of the same year, “missav.ws” became temporarily inaccessible, and in early June, it was subjected to blocking measures again. In late June of that year, on the successor domain “missav.ai,” a user-participation campaign (commonly referred to as “Genki-dama”) reached 10 million participants. However, advertisements on the site were not removed. On October 30, 2025, it was reported that “missav123.com” and “missav.live” had become targets of filtering. At that time, “MissAV.ai” was still in operation. On November 18 of the same year, a large-scale outage at Cloudflare caused many sites, including “MissAV.ai,” to go down temporarily, but they were restored the following day. In 2026, on January 24, information spread that filtering on “missav.ws” and “missav123.com” had been lifted. Additionally, in March of the same year, filtering measures were implemented against “MISSAV.ws” in Taiwan as well, but similar to Japan, operations shifted to “missav.ai.”[16]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "專訪ThisAV創辦人：我好少睇AV" [Interviewing the Creator of ThisAV: "I don't watch porn very often."]. 壹週Plus. 11 November 2015. Archived from the original on 14 November 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- 1 2 Wan, Adrian (2 September 2012). "Porn site urges users to fight against national education in Hong Kong". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- 1 2 "ThisAV 專訪 ！解開「技術」問題 – 用 Flash 唔轉 HTML5 ? 低清 ? 無 iOS APP?" [Interviewing ThisAV: "Technical Support": can't use HTML5 but only Flash? Low video quality? No iOS app offered?]. Unwire.hk. 30 December 2015. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ↑ "老司機片片掰了！上古神獸級成人網站「ThisAV」突關閉 這網站招手「腥腥」相惜" [Goodbye to Porno! Legendary "Ancient Unicorn" of Adult Site ThisAV's Sudden Shutdown - The "Seminal" Website We'll Be Missing]. udn科技玩家. 4 January 2023. Archived from the original on 22 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ↑ "2023上半年回顧｜15個最令香港人難忘的瞬間 00後最關心竟是..." [Reviewing the First Half of 2023 | 15 Unforgettable Moments for Hongkongers; The Stuff Gen Zs Care About the Most is Surprisingly...]. 香港01. 30 June 2023. Archived from the original on 16 March 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ↑ "MissAV 免費高清AV在線看" [MissAV [Adult Video] Watch Free HD Porn Online]. MissAV. Archived from the original on 15 March 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- 1 2 "知名成人網站無預警遭關閉 專家示警：難以根除" [Sudden Shutdown of Well-Known Adult Website, Experts Warn: [the problem of content piracy] Won't Stop so Easily]. 东森新闻. 14 January 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ↑ 謝文哲 (4 January 2023). "世界第一謎片平台「無預警掛點」 老司機崩潰：經典舊片那邊才有" [Popular Adult Site "Disappeared in a Sudden Puff", Fans Upset: "Only There Can We Find [some of] the Old Classics"]. 鏡週刊. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ↑ ToNick - 我不能忘記你 MV. 3 July 2011. Archived from the original on 8 May 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2024 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "鹹網都暫停 撐學民思潮" [Even Adult Site Stops its Service to Support Scholarism Movement]. 蘋果日報[Apple Daily]. 1 September 2012. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2024 – via 聞庫.
- ↑ 李八方 (3 March 2014). "隔牆有耳： 香港良心AV人綁藍絲帶" [Always Listening: Conscientious Adult Site Owner Wearing a Blue Ribbon]. 蘋果日報. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2024 – via 聞庫.
- ↑ "【和平佔中】高登ThisAV標誌轉成黑色" [OCLP: ThisAV Logo Became Black-and-White]. 蘋果日報[Apple Daily]. 29 September 2014. Archived from the original on 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ↑ "靚抽王". 忽然1周. 3 October 2014. pp. 78–82.
- ↑ "WILL CO. LTD. v. KA YEUNG LEE, Dist. Court, WD Washington 2025". Retrieved 16 January 2025 – via Google Scholar.
- ↑ 爆檸哥 (23 January 2025). "MISSAV復活點名「報復」石川澪 出PO後悔大呻：我是受害最慘的人" [MissAV's revival, "I got hurt the worst!" says Ishikawa]. 香港01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 5 October 2025.
- ↑ "〖移転〗Miss AV 見れない MissAV Missav.ws新URLはどこ？閉鎖・終了？miss-avブックマーク復活方法とリンク集missav.ai". ホワイトハッカー研究所 (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 May 2026.