YNOT – Last-minute courtroom histrionics failed to spare the 29-year-old son of a porn pioneer the maximum sentence for brutally slaying his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping their year-old daughter. James Raphael “Rafe” Mitchell, son of San Francisco porn legend Jim Mitchell, called...

YNOT – Montréal-based StunnerMedia has hired Simon Soulières to fill a newly created marketing and affiliate manager position. Formely employed by the BuddyProfits division of Gamma Entertainment, Soulières’ professional experience econcompasses the North American gay market...

YNOT – Trademark owners may be able to protect their intellectual property from dot-xxx cybersquatters by sending registry operator ICM Registry a “letter of notice” demanding specific URLs be blocked from registration, the Free Speech Coalition advised Monday. By using a letter...

YNOT – Within 24 hours after FriendFinder Networks released its second quarter earnings statement, shares plunged 70 cents to $3.30 before rallying to close Tuesday at $3.37 — a daily loss of 63 cents, or 15.75 percent. Analysts blame the tumble on what several called...

YNOT – DVD e-tailer TLA Raw has launched a new service that allows performers and producers to create and market DVDs of their content on-demand. According to a company spokesperson, TLA Ready Disc “connects adult performers’ and producers’ content to a paying audience, enabling...

YNOT – The International Foundation for Online Responsibility has named four attorneys and a chief executive to the five Policy Council seats the organization reserved for representatives of the adult entertainment community. The four so-called “mainstream representative” seats...

YNOT – Too Much Media’s latest project is new desktop software that enables affiliates to download their stats from any NATS or CCBill-based affiliate program automatically through one interface. TMM Stats is compatible with CCBill’s back end as well as NATS versions 3, 4 and...

YNOT – GoDaddy.com, one of the world’s largest domain-name registrars, has announced its pricing structure for dot-xxx domains. Prices will range from a low of $99.99 per year during the general availability phase, during which anyone may register a domain for any reason, to a...

YNOT – Chanel Preston has teamed with affiliate program PremiumCash to create and launch an official membership website. The site, to be owned and operated by Preston with the promotion of PremiumCash’s affiliate network, is expected to launch this fall. “Content-rich and fully...

YNOT – Hard Gay Feeds has added content from OnTheHunt.com to its selection of licensable gay adult material. Hard Gay Feeds, a source for leased gay content, is a division of video-on-demand giant AEBN. OnTheHunt.com is a hardcore video site owned and operated by the popular gay...