aNewDomain— If you think AshleyMadison.com is an adultery dating site and its parent company Avid is in the online dating business, no one can blame you. This misconception, Avid internal emails leaked in the AshleyMadison.com hack suggest, is by design from a PR perspective.
In reality, though, Avid has other, far more profitable lines of business — and dozens and dozens of sites, services and white labeling deals. Many of these sites are wholly owned by Avid and its shells, some are partnered revshare sites it operates, still others are U.S., Canadian and international skins for white labeled sites.
I’ll try to be comprehensive in listing all the Avid owned and white label partner sites with links, below, but there are so many. Necessarily, I’ll be updating this piece in the hours and days ahead.
As you’ll see, Ashley Madison and other sites you think of as social and/or dating sites are actually thinly-veiled front ends for scores of adult listing sites, online escort and arrangement dating sites, plus live sex cam sites and various other porn-related sites and services targeting every conceivable male fantasy.
Here are some, but not all (yet), of the many AshleyMadison.com sister sites I found.
AshleyRNadison.com, an alternate AshleyMadison.com landing page, adult personals
You’ve seen AshleyMadison.com, of course. As we told you two weeks ago, that site has a dirtier big sister. Called AshleyRNadison.com, it’s an erotic adult personals site. When in lower case, AshleyRNadison.com looks almost exactly like AshleyMadison.com in a URL board, which enabled Avid to use it as a landing page on other sites where Avid wants to drive men to adult personals. According to Alexa, this tactic is working. In the U.S., AshleyRNadison.com is about twice as successful, hit wise, as its more proper little sister.
We’ve cropped the image below and others in this roundup in consideration for those of you reading this at home or at the office. Click here for the full monty.
Eroticy, bondage-themed adult personals and live cams
This is a site and service that, according to the leaked emails, has been owned and operated by one of Avid’s many business shells since 2014. This site was once listed as part of Avid’s wife-swapping SwapperNet division, which emails suggest it sold in 2014.
Downlow, adult personals for “closeted” gay men
Downlow.ashleymadison.com, as you can see from its cover page below, isn’t as closeted as many of the other wholly owned, white labeled and affiliate partner sites in the Avid/Ashley Madison portfolio. When it launched in 2011, Avid PR secured a decent amount of media attention for this listings site, which targeted married and attached men who want to hook up with other men before heading home to wives and girlfriends. Its Terms of Service statement indicates that, like Ashley Madison, its owner is Avid Life Media subsidiary, Avid Dating Life. Also, like Ashley Madison, it is primarily an “entertainment” site, the statement says.
ErosDating, escort service finder and arrangement-based dating listings
On its website, shown below, ErosDating.com is an exclusive service that connects men and women who are looking for arrangements without the drama associated with regular dating. Like Avid’s ArrangementFinders and Big and Beautiful, this is a white label site operated through the Avid shell Established Men Media, Inc. (EM Media Inc.), as you can see from its privacy policy. Avid’s gay site ManCrunch and the Chinese adult listing site Meechee.com fall under EM Media, too.
DateMrsRobinson.com, an adult listings site targeting college age men
Think of Avid’s DateMrsRobinson.com as kind of a gateway drug for men who might someday be interested in CougarLife.com. These three sites, DateMrsRobinson, CougarLife and Milfbook all fall under Avid’s Cougar Life Inc. (CL Inc.) shell, according to legal, but their privacy policy says they belong to Avid Dating Life proper, dba DateMrsRobinson Inc.
MILFbook.com, live video shows and chats for guys seeking “attached moms”
Like all the Avid sites I examined for this piece, Milfbook.com looks kind of sophisticated if you’re not a member — but it opens up to significantly more explicit images if you are. Once inside, the site bills itself as “the world’s best live sex network.”
Also, ever since the hack, I notice it’s harder to access the various sites I discovered. Many of them now have a big, ugly form to fill out before they’ll let you in. Luckily I took a screenshot of this MILFbook lander page when I found it.
Here’s an inside page below. I found this because I went to another Avid white label site, which I’ll describe to you beneath this following image.
MeetSexyMoms.com, a fake landing page supposedly targeting mature women seeking younger men
I say it’s fake because, once you get there, it just redirects traffic to Avid’s white label partner Milfaholic.com and Avid’s Milfbook. Note also that it supposedly targets women? Avid’s audience is men, first and foremost, and all its sites address some male fantasy or another.
DateBrokeCollegeGirls.com, an adult listings site for older men seeking younger women
DateBrokeCollegeGirls.com was launched in February 2015. Its cover shot features the University of Oregon student who became an overnight video sensation after she stripped down and masturbated in front of a live video sex cam. That would be Kendra Sunderland. Read about her here. This site also appears to fall under Avid’s CougarLife Inc. shell, according to the leaked emails.
AshleyMadisonBabes.com, a lander that drives traffic to one of AshleyMadison.com’s Chinese language apps
AshleyMadisonBabes’ privacy policy, as you can see, shows the site is owned by Pracellens, Ltd. That is the Nicosia, Cyprus-based Avid shell that, according to the leaked emails, takes in all the money from the various sites. This site’s front page has nudity, which I clipped out in the screenshot in case our readers’ are viewing this article at work or around younger family members. You can see the whole thing at AshleyMadisonBabes.com, here.
Meechee.com, a Chinese language hookup site
ManCrunch.com, adult personals and escort service listings for gay and bisexual men
TheBigAndTheBeautiful.com, adult-targeted live cam site targeting men who are attracted to average to full figured women
Marketed as a “dating site” for men interested in fuller figured women, forget “the” and you’ll see that the actual business is a live video cam site featuring, you guessed it, some awfully curvy women. Its privacy policy says it belongs to Cougar Life Inc.
HookupBBW.com, fantasy dating
HookupBBW.com says right on its cover page that this site is fantasy-purposed, and that the “online cupids” you meet might not be, well, real. The same situation exists at AshleyMadison.com, the leaked emails show. Too bad it didn’t carry the same disclaimer.
BabeSexy (Malaysia), this site is a hard core porn site and white label Avid partner site
Milfbook.NL, the Dutch Milfbook site, personals listings for men seeking women over 35 that are moms
Cheaters.net, an online “fantasy” porn site
This one, like Avid’s BBW hookups, has fantasy written all over it. Literally. Its privacy statement easily traces it back to the Nicosia, Cyprus address where Avid shells Pernimus and Praecellens are located. That indicates this one is a partner deal and only partially owned, not wholly owned, according to the emails.
EstablishedMen, hookup site that links to adult listings for men seeking younger women
This site is now covered by a landing document that requires you to sign in. But here is an older image I found through one of its FAQs.
CougarLife.com, under the cover, escort listings for men seeking women aged 40 or older
Thinly veiled as a dating site for media purposes, according to the emails, CougarLife.com actually appears to be just a cover for the ubiquitous adult listings, cam and escort-type “arrangement dating” services Avid offers under the covers of so many of these sites.
Its front page, for non-members, carries the sophisticated CougarLife image you’ve seen before. It looks like a “dating network,” similar to how Avid has positioned Ashley Madison. Once inside though, and I had to crop the image below due to nudity, it’s quite obviously an escort-type meetup service.
AdsForSex.com, adult personals and a bot-populated “fantasy dating” site
AmateurMatch.com — Adult listings, escorts and arrangement dating
Another site whose privacy statement links back to the Avid shell office (Permimus Ltd. and Pracellens, Ltd.) in Nicosia, Cyprus, AmateurMatch.com is yet another site featuring escort and arrangement dating listings. I shared this out on my Google+ account, and one reader who has been following our coverage over the last week said, “Sigh. More boths. More stock art.” Yes, that’s about the size of it, judging from the leaked emails.
ArrangementFinders.com – One of Avid’s larger arrangement dating and meta escort service sites.
Another white label site from Avid, ArrangementFinders.com is, according to its privacy policy, owned and operated by Avid shell Established Men Inc. (EM Inc.). ArrangementFinders is the third highest grossing site after domestic/international versions of AshleyMadison.com and CougarLife.com, respectively. Scroll below the fold and you’ll see that in one day in May of this year, it was pulling in about 6K in one 24-hour period.
CheatingHousewife.com – Arrangement-dating listings and “fantasy” site
Here is CheatingHouseWife.com, yet another meta arrangement dating listings site. Its privacy statement shows ownership, again, at a Nicosia, Cyprus-based Avid shell address.
CuteHookup.com – Online “fantasy” dating community, adult listings.
According to its privacy policy, CuteHookup.com is also owned and operated by an Avid shell located at the same Nicosia, Cypress address.
For aNewDomain, I’m Gina Smith.
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