All of the domain speculating started off as a joke. I basically bought 'indieporn.com' to host a mock indie rock porn site, and never got around to doing it. Apparently indie rock is popular today (it wasn't from 92-2000, when people made fun of me for listening to Sebadoh ), and so is indie rock themed porn -- who would have guessed?!?

In any event, IndiePorn.com , IndiePorn.net , Indie-Porn.com , IndyPorn.com are all owned by me. For the bulk of their existence they've had no content on them. They now have ads ( not x-rated ads ) and a story of how I came across the domains. You can read about them more on the sites themselves: IndiePorn.com.

The other porn domain has a richer history, and is an exercise in a certain kind of dark humor. It was the summer of 2000, I had a bbq in LA, when a friend showed up confident that he conceived of- and purchased- the world's most offensive domain name. Not one do be undone, I bet that I could conceive something more foul and offensive than he could ever imagine. A few minutes later I won the bet with a domain name that mixed pornography, obscentity and racism all at once; asianteenfucksluts.com .

As to the origins of the name: I came up with the name by using the most prevalent words in x rated searches. A few search portals in 2000 gave real-time top search words (censored and not) - I just jumbled some together. I think I used metafilter. I could be wrong.

Asians weren't singled out on purpose -- Asian porn seemed to be the biggest ethnic porn market from my inexperienced searches. If Iranian porn sold more, I would be in possession of that domain right now. Just about every other porn search involved 'Teen' as an adjective. 'Fuck' just really described it as a porn site by the name alone. 'Slut' I tossed in *just* so that the baseness of the domain was obvious and without question.

Now if thats not postmodern enough, for a while there was actual content on it- content that was not porn but anti-porn: extreme close ups of faces and body parts from x rated photo stills. Purposefully, the shots were distrurbing and meant to be sickening. The site also pulled in text from russian mail order bride services, ran it though language translators, and displayed it next to headshots of asian mail order brides ( there weren't any asian mail order bride services with text at the time. just photos ).

The site also contained a description detailing every step and essentially saying "Hey. This is less obscene in every sense than the Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera videos that you're watching on TV and singing along to with your kids". I quoted Foucault, made some referenes to Kathy Acker, and all around made it a nerd fest. Big deal.

So that's the full disclosure. I bought some domain names as a joke that an actual porn industry popped up around, and I had a postmodern art project that was a fake porn site trying to be the most offensive thing on the internet. At no point in time did any of those domains consume, produce or market adult enterntainment-- or harm puppies.