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Google Adult Ad Ban Now In Effect

July 3, 2014 by Michael Berkens

CNBC is reporting that the Google Advertising Ban on Adult domain names is now in effect.

We reported earlier this month that Google was going to impose new restrictions on adult advertising, which some believed amounted almost to a ban on advertising.

Today CNBC is reporting that “Google is getting out of the porn advertising business”.

The changes, which went into effect late Monday, prohibit any promotion of most sexually themed sites, specifically those that feature “graphic sexual acts with intent to arouse including sex acts such as masturbation.”

A company spokesperson noted that Google has long had restrictive policies on its adult category for some time and expected many advertisers had already looked to other advertising venues. ”

I haven’t heard much about this in any industry blogs or from parking companies.

We will be watching some of our own domain names and see what the effect of this is.

 

Filed Under: Domain Industry, Domain Parking, Google

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. BrianWick says

    July 3, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    when I key in xxx matures I still get adult results.
    what does the ban mean then

    • Peter says

      July 3, 2014 at 1:57 pm

      @BrianWick – Advertisement and indexing are not the same. But without advertisement support there is no CPC income from related links.

  2. Jeff Schneider says

    July 3, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    Hello Michael,

    “Google is getting out of the porn advertising business”. Wow there goes a lot of Biz, Pity

    Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)


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