How to start a porn site comes down to ten decisions made in the right order: the type of site, the niche, where your content comes from and how you prove it is legal, the compliance features the site needs, hosting, the platform, payments, how the site will earn, SEO, and a launch checklist. Almost every one of them works differently for adult sites. Stripe’s list of prohibited businesses includes “Pornography and other mature audience content”, PayPal’s help centre says it won’t let account holders buy or sell “Sexually oriented digital goods or content delivered through a digital medium”, and Google’s publisher policies keep its ads off content that “includes graphic sexual text, image, audio, video, or games”. Plan for each rule before you build, and the launch goes smoothly. Find out afterwards, and you rebuild.
This guide covers the website itself. For registering the company, licences, banking and tax, read our guide on how to set up a legal porn company. Nothing here is legal advice: laws differ by country and by US state, so have an adult-industry lawyer check your plan. Every rule quoted below was checked against its source in October 2026.
Key Takeaways
- Choose the model first. A tube site, a paysite, a clip store, a cam site and an affiliate site need different content, software and payment set-ups, so the model decides everything that follows.
- Prove every performer’s age and consent. US rules require producers to check each performer’s picture ID before production and keep the records for seven years. Mastercard’s standards require “Documented age and identity verification for all people depicted and those uploading the content”.
- Build age verification in from day one. The UK requires highly effective age checks on porn sites, and the Free Speech Coalition counts 27 US states that have passed age-verification laws for adult websites since 2022.
- Use infrastructure that accepts adult content. Squarespace, WordPress.com and SiteGround ban sexually explicit content, and some hosts that accept adult sites still rule out tube sites or video streaming, so check every host’s and CDN’s terms before you build.
- Take payments through adult processors. Mainstream processors exclude or restrict porn, and Visa and Mastercard both apply extra rules to adult merchants.
- Get SEO right before launch. Google warns that if Googlebot can’t get past your age gate, “it may cause your site to rank poorly on Google Search.”
Step 1: Choose the Type of Porn Site
The model decides where your content comes from, what software you need, how you get paid and how heavy your compliance work will be. Choose it before you buy a domain or a script.
| Site type | How it earns | Where content comes from | Biggest challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tube site | Ads, plus upsells to premium content | Uploads, partner studios and licensed content | Moderation, bandwidth and enough traffic for ads to pay |
| Paysite or membership site | Subscriptions | Your own productions or licensed content | Producing or licensing enough content to keep members |
| Clip store or creator platform | Per-clip sales or creator subscriptions, with a revenue share | Creators’ uploads | Verifying every creator and every person in their content |
| Cam site | Tokens and private shows | Live performers | Streaming technology and performer recruitment, unless you use a white label |
| Affiliate or review site | Commissions for sending buyers to paysites and cams | Your own reviews and guides | Ranking without much content of your own |
Tube sites are the most visible model, and the hardest to make pay. Our breakdown of how porn tube sites make money explains how they combine advertising with turning free viewers into paying customers. If you choose a tube, compare KVS with Mechbunny in our Mechbunny vs KVS review before you buy a script.
Step 2: Pick a Niche You Can Own
A new site will struggle to outrank the big tubes for broad searches, so start narrow. Pick a niche where three things are true: people search for it, you can produce or license enough content for it, and the first page of Google isn’t made up entirely of the largest tube sites. Niches can be built around a category, a type of performer, a format or a language. Check the demand with keyword research before you commit, and plan your categories and tags around the searches you find. Our guide to adult video tag optimization shows how to turn those searches into a tag system that ranks.
Step 3: Decide Where Your Content Comes From
Content is the biggest legal risk on a porn site, and each source carries different duties. Decide it before you build, because it changes the features the site needs.
Producing your own content
In the US, if you film your own scenes you are what the federal record-keeping rules call a primary producer: “any person who actually films, videotapes, photographs, or creates a digitally- or computer-manipulated image” of sexually explicit conduct. You must record “The legal name and date of birth of each performer, obtained by the producer’s examination of a picture identification card prior to production of the depiction.” When the content goes online, the records must include “a copy of any URL associated with the depiction”, and “Each record shall be maintained for seven years from the date of creation or last amendment or addition.” Add signed model releases and consent forms for every performer; our guide on setting up a legal porn company covers performer agreements.
Licensing content from studios
Publishing someone else’s content makes you a secondary producer, which the rules define to include anyone who “inserts on a computer site or service a digital image of, or otherwise manages the sexually explicit content of a computer site or service”. A secondary producer “may satisfy the requirements of this part to create and maintain records by accepting from the primary producer” copies of the records, so make that part of every licence. Get the licence terms in writing too: which titles, which territories, for how long, and whether the licence is exclusive.
Accepting uploads from users or creators
User uploads carry the most risk, because you publish content you didn’t make and can’t vouch for, while your host, your processor and the card networks hold you responsible for it. Mastercard’s standards for adult sites require the banks that connect merchants to its network to “certify that the seller of adult content has effective controls in place to monitor, block and, where necessary, take down all illegal content.” Mastercard’s other updated requirements include:
- “Documented age and identity verification for all people depicted and those uploading the content”
- “Content review process prior to publication”
- “Complaint resolution process that addresses illegal or nonconsensual content within seven business days”
- “Appeals process allowing for any person depicted to request their content be removed”
Each of those is a feature to build: an identity check for uploaders and performers, a moderation queue that holds new content until it is reviewed, a complaint form with a tracked response time, and a removal request process. In the UK, Ofcom’s guidance for users states that “As of 25 July 2025, all sites and apps that allow pornography will need to have strong age checks in place”, which includes platforms built on user uploads.
Embedding videos from other sites
Embedding other sites’ videos is the cheapest way to fill a site, and the weakest for SEO. Google’s spam policies list “Creating sites dedicated to embedding or compiling content, such as videos, images, or other media from other sites, without substantial added value to the user” as an example of scraping. If you embed, add something of your own to every page, such as original descriptions, curation, reviews or category guides.
Step 4: Build Compliance Into the Site
Age checks, record-keeping notices, moderation and takedowns are features of the website, not paperwork, so they belong in the build specification from the start. The table summarises them; the sections below give the detail.
| Requirement | Where it applies | What the site needs |
|---|---|---|
| Age verification | The UK, France and 27 US states, among others | An age-assurance provider that supports the methods each market accepts |
| 2257 compliance statement | Producers of sexually explicit content covered by US federal law | The statement on every page with explicit depictions, or a link to it |
| Uploader and performer verification | Adult sites that take Mastercard, with uploader checks wherever users upload | Identity checks, plus a review queue before publication |
| Complaints and removals | Sites that take Mastercard | A complaint process that addresses illegal or nonconsensual content within seven business days |
| DMCA agent | Service providers that host user content and want the DMCA’s safe harbour | A registered agent, listed on the site and with the US Copyright Office |
Age verification
In the UK, Ofcom gives a non-exhaustive list of seven methods it considers capable of being highly effective: facial age estimation, open banking, digital identity services, credit card age checks, email-based age estimation, mobile network operator age checks and photo-ID matching. For platforms that publish their own pornography, Ofcom said the duty “comes into effect on 17 January” 2025. Sites that let users upload pornography had to have strong age checks in place by 25 July 2025.
In the US, the Free Speech Coalition’s FAQ, last updated on 8 July 2026, says: “Since 2022, twenty-seven US states have passed age-verification requirements targeting adult websites, each with their own particulars.” The Supreme Court upheld Texas’s law, H.B. 1181, on 27 June 2025, finding it “subject only to intermediate scrutiny, which it readily survives.” Under that law, the Texas attorney general can recover “up to $10,000 per day that the website is noncompliant”, plus “up to $250,000 if any minors access covered sexual material as a result of the violation.” Enforcement differs by state: the Free Speech Coalition lists private lawsuits and government fines, and says “Tennessee and South Dakota make failing to age verify users a felony criminal offense.”
In France, the 2024 SREN law requires porn sites and video-sharing platforms to use age verification that meets a standard set by the regulator, Arcom. It applies automatically to providers based in France or outside the European Union, and a February 2025 ministerial order extended it to certain providers in other EU countries. In July 2025 the Conseil d’État refused to suspend that order, without ruling on its legality. Choose an age-verification provider that supports the methods each of your markets accepts, and block the markets where you can’t comply. Our guide to age verification for adult websites compares providers, methods and costs.
The 2257 compliance statement
Producers covered by the US rules must show where their records are kept. The federal record-keeping rules say a website “shall contain the required statement on every page of a Web site on which a visual depiction of an actual human being engaged in actual or simulated sexually explicit conduct appears.” The site may instead show it “in a separate window that opens upon the viewer’s clicking or mousing-over a hypertext link”, and the rules set the link text: 18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement, adding 2257A where that applies. The statement must give a street address for the records, because “A post office box address does not satisfy this requirement”, and appear in “no less than 12-point type or no smaller than the second-largest typeface on the material and in a color that clearly contrasts with the background color of the material”. We recommend a link in the footer of every page with explicit depictions, using that exact text, and asking your lawyer to confirm the placement and type size.
Takedowns and a DMCA agent
Any site that hosts other people’s uploads will receive copyright complaints, and in the US a registered agent is part of qualifying for the DMCA’s safe harbour. According to the US Copyright Office, “To designate an agent, a service provider must do two things: (1) make certain contact information for the agent available to the public on its website; and (2) provide the same information to the Copyright Office”. The fee is low, “$6 per designation, amendment, or resubmission”, but the registration lapses: “A service provider’s designation will expire and become invalid three years after it is registered with the Office”. Put the renewal date in your calendar.
Step 5: Choose Adult-Friendly Hosting, a CDN and a Domain
Every hosting company and CDN decides for itself whether to accept adult content, and some accept adult sites but not the video traffic a porn site creates. Read the terms before you sign up, and get anything unclear confirmed in writing.
Hosting
Several mainstream platforms ban adult content outright. Squarespace’s acceptable use policy says: “Don’t publish sexually explicit or obscene material.” WordPress.com doesn’t allow sexually explicit material, which it defines as “visual depictions of sexually explicit acts”, and SiteGround says customer content must not “be pornographic, obscene, unlawfully harassing, or connected with child abuse or sex-related merchandising”. Others draw the line elsewhere. Verpex says “We allow adult sites which are legal in the United States of America and the United Kingdom”, but its content restrictions also rule out video tube websites, file upload websites and audio streaming, and it says live streaming is not supported.
Video-heavy porn sites usually end up on dedicated servers, often from hosts that serve the adult industry. NovoServe says: “Yes, the hosting of legal adult content is permitted on NovoServe’s dedicated servers.” MojoHost said in November 2024 that “MojoHost remains steadfast in our dedication to supporting adult entertainment companies”. Large infrastructure providers are another route: DigitalOcean’s acceptable use policy bans “Unlawful Pornography”, which it defines as child sexual abuse material and intimate content shared without consent, and Amazon Web Services’ acceptable use policy doesn’t mention adult content at all. A policy that is silent is not the same as permission, so ask. Check your platform’s needs as well, covered in Step 6: KVS installs on a VPS or dedicated server, and NATS can’t run under cPanel, so neither suits typical shared hosting.
CDN and video delivery
Video delivery is where a porn site’s running costs go, so choose the CDN with the host. bunny.net accepts adult content providers as long as the content “is legal under the laws of Slovenia, each of the 50 States of the Union”, but says “Using bunny.net for any kind of live video streaming of short events is not allowed without prior written consent.” Cloudflare’s main terms don’t mention adult content, but its CDN terms say that, unless you are an Enterprise customer, serving video and other large files requires its paid services, such as Stream or the Developer Platform, and that it may disable or limit CDN access for sites that serve video, or a disproportionate share of pictures or other large files, without them. Adult hosts also sell extras built for the industry: MojoHost says its “Proprietary Poizen® technology forensically signs videos as they are delivered by MojoCDN”, which helps trace leaked copies.
Domain
A short, brandable .com is still the safest choice. The adult extensions exist too: ICM Registry says “We power the world’s top portfolio of adult top-level domains (.xxx, .porn, .sex, .adult)”. They won’t help you rank, because Google said in 2015 that “Keywords in a TLD do not give any advantage or disadvantage in search”, and they make your site easier to filter, since ICM’s acceptable use policy states “You agree that we may label the websites in the Adult TLDs”. If you are building a brand, ICM’s AdultBlock service lets you block others from registering your name on those extensions. Avoid names that use other adult brands’ trademarks.
Step 6: Choose Your Platform
The platform is the software that runs your site. Match it to the model you chose in Step 1, and check its server requirements against your host before you pay, because several of these products need their own server.
| Platform | Best for | How it is sold | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| KVS (Kernel Video Sharing) | Tube sites and video platforms | One-time licences: Basic $99, Advanced $299, Ultimate $499, or Ultimate at $49 a month | Runs on a VPS or dedicated server set up to its requirements; one domain per licence; 6 to 12 months of updates |
| WP-Script (WordPress) | Tube sites built on WordPress | One-time payments, no subscriptions (its paywall also needs WooCommerce Subscriptions) | Its importer fills a site with embeds from other tubes |
| Elevated X | Paysites, pay-per-view and clip stores | ELX Complete: $239 a month plus a 20% revenue fee, with hosting and payment processing included | Model site networks and paysite partner services need approval first |
| NATS (Too Much Media) | Running an affiliate programme for a paysite | Monthly lease by number of joins: $220 to $2,950 self-hosted, $330 to $4,425 hosted, plus a one-time $750 | Priced by monthly joins, and it can’t run under cPanel or other control panels |
| White-label cam site | Cam sites without building streaming | Revenue share: a 20% default flat rate at Stripcash, 35% to 45% at AWEmpire | Limited SEO control over the pages |
| Custom build | Unique features, creator platforms and larger sites | Project fee | Budget and timeline, so vet the developer carefully |
Tube scripts
KVS sells three tiers. Basic is “For video websites without user registration”, Advanced is “For membership, subscription and VOD projects”, and Ultimate is “For communities, UGC projects and advanced video platforms.” KVS says “The one-time Basic, Advanced and Ultimate licenses are perpetual”, and “KVS can be installed on a VPS or dedicated server configured according to the KVS server requirements.” Each licence covers one domain. Mechbunny is another tube script, and we compare the two on price, features and SEO in Mechbunny vs KVS.
WP-Script turns WordPress into a tube site with themes and plugins, and states: “All plans are one-time payments. No subscriptions, no recurring monthly or annual fees.” Its importer brings in videos embedded from other tubes, so read the scraping warning in Step 3 before you rely on it. Its paywall plugin runs on WooCommerce and “requires WooCommerce Subscriptions for recurring billing”.
Paysite and membership software
Elevated X sells its ELX Complete package as “Software, hosting, payment processing.” for $239 a month plus a 20% revenue fee, and it supports subscription membership sites and clip store sites. Its plan allows “Unlimited websites” and co-owned sites, but model site networks and paysite partner services are marked Inquire, so get your model confirmed in writing. NATS from Too Much Media is different: it is “a leading affiliate program backend solution”, in its maker’s words, which runs the affiliate programme that pays other webmasters to send you members. It is leased monthly by the number of joins, and “Rebills are not counted.” Check the hosting first, because NATS documentation warns that it “requires that you do not use any control panel software such as cPanel or ISPconfig, as it may cause issues.”
White-label cam sites
A white label lets you run a cam site on your own domain while the network supplies the performers, streaming and billing. Stripcash, Stripchat’s partner programme, describes it as “a franchising business where we provide everything you need for smooth operations; the only thing required from your side is a clientele.” Its default flat-rate commission is 20%, and partners get “lifetime commission from all members who registered by your referral links”. AWEmpire, LiveJasmin’s programme, pays 35% to 45%, rising with the credits your users buy in a period. That is the partner’s share; what the performers themselves are paid is covered in how much do cam models make.
The catch is SEO. Stripcash says “We do not support sitemaps for white-labels”, and because it gives every partner the same content, white-label pages point search engines to the main site: “This happens as a result of cross-domain canonicalization.” A white label can earn from traffic you already have, but you will need your own content, such as guides, reviews and performer pages, to rank.
A custom build
Creator platforms, clip marketplaces and any site that needs features no script offers are usually custom builds. They cost more and take longer, so budget with our guide to adult website development cost and vet the team with our checklist on how to choose an adult website development company.
Step 7: Set Up Adult Payment Processing
The processors most websites use won’t take porn. Stripe lists “Pornography and other mature audience content (including literature, imagery and other media) designed for the purpose of sexual gratification” among its prohibited businesses. PayPal’s help centre says it doesn’t permit sexually oriented digital goods, with examples including “downloadable pictures or videos and website subscriptions”, although its acceptable use policy lists “Any adult content delivered digitally including video on demand (VOD) and web-cam activities” among activities that need pre-approval. Shopify Payments excludes “Adult products: Products or services that contain sexually explicit content, such as adult videos, pay-per-view adult content, or adult magazines.”
Porn sites use specialist adult processors such as CCBill, Segpay, Epoch and Verotel. We compare their published rates, payout schedules and compliance demands in adult payment processors compared. Whichever you choose, the card networks set extra rules. Visa’s rules make acquirers ensure that an adult content provider “assigned with MCC 5967 (Adult Content and Services)” meets Section 3.1.1 of its Integrity Risk Program Guide, and in the US, Visa’s dispute protection for 3-D Secure payments against fraud claims doesn’t apply to merchants with that code. Mastercard requires the banks behind every adult site that accepts its cards to certify the controls described in Step 3.
Step 8: Decide How the Site Will Earn
Most porn sites combine two or three revenue streams, and each one needs its own set-up before launch:
- Advertising. Google AdSense is ruled out, so free sites sell ad space through adult ad networks such as ExoClick, JuicyAds, TrafficStars and TwinRed.
- Subscriptions and pay-per-view. Paid access through your adult processor, with trials and rebills set up in its billing system.
- Tokens. The core model for cam sites, where viewers buy tokens to tip performers and pay for private shows.
- Affiliate commissions. Cam networks and paysites pay you for the buyers you send them. Stripcash’s default flat-rate commission is 20%, paid for the lifetime of each member you refer, and paysites run their own affiliate programmes on software such as NATS.
For how the largest free sites combine these streams, see how porn tube sites make money.
Step 9: Get the SEO Foundations Right Before Launch
Organic search is the one channel a porn site can build without an ad account, and the technical choices that decide it are made during the build. Get these right before launch:
- Let Googlebot past the age gate. Google’s guidelines for explicit content say to “be sure to allow Googlebot to crawl your content without triggering the age gate”, and warn that if you don’t, “it may cause your site to rank poorly on Google Search.” Let it fetch your video files too: blocking them “may significantly affect the ranking of your explicit pages on Google Search, and especially in Video mode.”
- Label explicit pages. Google recommends that you “add rating markup with the adult value either as a meta tag or an HTTP response header”, so SafeSearch knows which pages to filter or blur.
- Separate explicit and non-explicit pages. If your site has significant amounts of both, Google says “we recommend grouping the explicit pages on a separate domain or subdomain”, so your guides and blog can still reach SafeSearch users.
- Plan categories and tags around searches. Each category and tag page needs unique text and a clean URL, not just a grid of thumbnails.
- Keep public pages indexable. Homepage, category, performer and preview pages should load without a login, while paid content stays behind the paywall.
- Build links slowly and cleanly. Few sites will link to a porn site, which tempts new owners into link schemes. Our guide to adult link building penalties covers the tactics that get sites penalised.
Our SEO for porn sites service handles all of this for tube sites, paysites and cam platforms, from the technical set-up to the content and links.
Step 10: Run Through the Launch Checklist
| Area | Before launch, confirm that |
|---|---|
| Content | Every scene has ID records, releases and consent forms, and every licence includes the producer’s records |
| Age verification | Checks work in every market you serve, and blocked markets are blocked |
| 2257 statement | The statement or its link appears on every page with explicit depictions, with a street address |
| Moderation | New uploads wait in a review queue, and complaints and removal requests reach a named person |
| DMCA | Your agent is registered with the US Copyright Office and listed on the site |
| Hosting and CDN | Your host’s and CDN’s terms allow adult content and your type of site, including tubes, uploads, live streaming and video delivery, and backups run daily |
| Payments | Your adult processor has approved the site, and test transactions, trials and cancellations work |
| Policies | Terms of service, privacy policy and content removal pages are live |
| SEO | Googlebot can crawl past the age gate, explicit pages carry the rating tag, and public pages are indexable |
| Analytics | Traffic, conversions and refunds are tracked from the first day |
How Adult SEO Minds Helps You Launch a Porn Site
Most of the decisions in this guide are cheaper to get right during the build than to fix after launch. As an adult website development company, we build custom adult websites and apps with “secure payments, privacy features and scalable media architecture”, including subscriptions, paywalls and tokens, age gates and 2257 compliance. We scope every build after a free consultation, so you only pay for the features your model needs. Once the site is live, our porn site SEO team works on rankings, our adult link building agency earns the links new sites struggle to get, and our adult SEO packages set out the plans.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to start a porn site?
It depends on the model and how you build it. Software can be a one-time licence, such as KVS at $99 to $499 per domain, a monthly platform such as Elevated X’s ELX Complete at $239 a month plus a 20% revenue fee, or a custom build. On top of that come hosting and bandwidth, content, age verification and payment processing fees. Our guide to adult website development cost breaks down the ranges by site type.
Is it legal to start a porn site?
It can be, if the site meets the rules wherever you and your visitors are, such as record-keeping, age verification and performer consent. This guide covers the features the website needs for that. The legal set-up of the business is covered in our guide on how to set up a legal porn company, and an adult-industry lawyer should review your plan.
Do I need age verification on my porn site?
Very likely. The UK has required highly effective age checks on porn sites since 2025, France requires sites in scope to use systems that meet Arcom’s standard, and the Free Speech Coalition counts 27 US states that have passed age-verification laws for adult websites since 2022. What you need depends on where your visitors are, so pick a provider that supports the methods each market accepts.
What is a 2257 statement, and does my site need one?
It is a notice, required by US federal rules, that says where the records proving every performer’s age are kept, including a street address rather than a post office box. It must appear on every page that shows sexually explicit depictions of real people, or open from a link on each such page titled 18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement, adding 2257A where it applies. If your site publishes sexually explicit content that falls under the US rules, plan on needing one, and have a lawyer confirm how the rules apply to you.
Can I use WordPress for a porn site?
Yes, on self-hosted WordPress with a host that allows adult content; WordPress.com itself doesn’t allow sexually explicit material. WP-Script sells WordPress themes and plugins for tube sites as one-time licences, and its paywall plugin runs on WooCommerce, with WooCommerce Subscriptions needed for recurring billing. Be careful with plugins that fill a site with videos embedded from other tubes, because Google’s spam policies treat sites built that way without added value as scraping.
Which payment processors work for porn sites?
Not the usual ones. Stripe and Shopify Payments exclude sexually explicit content, and PayPal’s help centre says it doesn’t permit sexually oriented digital goods, though its acceptable use policy lists adult content delivered digitally as needing pre-approval. Porn sites use adult processors such as CCBill, Segpay, Epoch and Verotel, which act as payment facilitators for adult merchants. Our comparison of adult payment processors sets out their published rates and requirements.
Can a porn site rank on Google?
Yes. Google blocks explicit results only for users on SafeSearch’s Filter setting, which is the default when its systems indicate someone may be under 18. On the default Blur setting, explicit images are blurred, but “explicit text and links can show if they’re relevant for your search.” Follow Google’s guidelines for explicit content, which ask you to let Googlebot past the age gate and recommend labelling explicit pages with the adult rating tag. We also recommend keeping public pages indexable and building links without schemes.
Should I start a tube site or a paysite?
Start a paysite if you have your own or licensed content and want subscription revenue from a smaller audience. Start a tube site only if you can handle heavy moderation, large bandwidth bills and the traffic that ad revenue needs. Many sites combine the two, using free content to bring in visitors and paid content to earn from them.
The Short Version
Starting a porn site is mostly about decisions made before the first page goes live. Choose a model and a niche you can own. Know where every piece of content comes from, and keep the records that prove each performer’s age and consent. Build age verification, the 2257 statement, moderation and takedowns into the site. Host it with providers that accept adult content, take payments through an adult processor, and get the SEO foundations right before launch. Do that, and the site is ready to grow instead of needing a rebuild.
Sources, all checked in October 2026: the US federal record-keeping rules (28 CFR Part 75) and 18 U.S.C. 2257; the US Copyright Office’s DMCA Designated Agent Directory pages; the Free Speech Coalition’s age-verification FAQ (updated 8 July 2026); the Supreme Court’s opinion in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (decided 27 June 2025); Ofcom’s age assurance guidance and statements; the Conseil d’Etat’s July 2025 decision on age verification; Mastercard’s adult content standards (14 April 2021); the Visa Core Rules (18 April 2026); Stripe’s Prohibited and Restricted Businesses list, PayPal’s help article on sexually oriented goods and its acceptable use policy, and Shopify’s Payments eligibility page; Google’s publisher policies, spam policies, guidelines for explicit content and SafeSearch help page, and its 2015 Search Central post on new top-level domains; the acceptable use policies of Squarespace, SiteGround, DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services and bunny.net, WordPress.com’s user guidelines, Verpex’s content restrictions and Cloudflare’s service terms; NovoServe’s and MojoHost’s own pages; ICM Registry’s pages; and the vendors’ own pages for KVS, WP-Script, Elevated X, NATS, Stripcash and AWEmpire.