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Wikipedia September 2, 2026 at 02:42 PM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHamster

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Claim
2 April 2005 (2005-04-02)
Correction

The launch date shown here is off by two years. Credible records place xHamster's domain registration and first commercial use in 2007, not 2005.

Full reasoning

This launch date conflicts with multiple contemporaneous and quasi-official records.

  • In a 2017 domain-arbitration filing, Hammy Media/xHamster stated that xHamster.com was registered "on or about April 2, 2007" and that the site had been operating since May 24, 2007.
  • In a 2020 WIPO decision, the panel likewise noted that xhamster.com was created on April 2, 2007 and verified archived pages showing the site as a porn website in 2007.
  • xHamster's own 2015 PR Newswire release says the company was "Founded in 2007."

Taken together, these sources contradict a 2005 launch date.

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Claim
It was founded by Oleg Netepenko and Dmitri Gusev in 2005.
Correction

The year is wrong: records from xHamster and domain-arbitration proceedings place the site's founding/launch in 2007, not 2005.

Full reasoning

The claim gives the wrong founding year.

Evidence pointing to 2007 instead of 2005:

  1. xHamster's own PR Newswire release says: "Founded in 2007, xHamster..."
  2. In ADR Forum proceedings, Hammy Media/xHamster stated that the xHamster.com domain was registered April 2, 2007 and the site had been operating since May 24, 2007.
  3. A 2020 WIPO decision also records that xhamster.com was created on April 2, 2007 and verifies archived 2007 site snapshots.

Those sources directly contradict a 2005 founding date.

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3
Claim
In August 2007, Russian citizens Oleg Netepenko and Dmitri Gussew launched xHamster.
Correction

The month is wrong. xHamster's own legal filings say the site was operating by May 24, 2007, and the domain was registered on April 2, 2007.

Full reasoning

This sentence places xHamster's launch in August 2007, but the better-supported date is earlier.

  • In ADR Forum proceedings, Hammy Media/xHamster stated that the xHamster.com domain was registered on or about April 2, 2007 and that it had been operating since May 24, 2007.
  • A WIPO decision separately notes the domain was created on April 2, 2007 and verified archived copies of the site from September 2007.

That evidence contradicts a launch specifically in August 2007.

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4
Claim
In August 2018, xHamster sent a letter to the creators of the television series Sense8, Lilly and Lana Wachowski, requesting to host the third season of Sense8, after the show was dropped from Netflix.
Correction

The year is wrong. News coverage of xHamster's open letter to the Wachowskis dates it to August 2017, not August 2018.

Full reasoning

This event happened one year earlier than stated.

  • TheWrap reported on August 18, 2017 that xHamster had posted an open letter to Lana and Lilly Wachowski offering to produce a third season of Sense8 after Netflix's cancellation.
  • A follow-up TheWrap report from September 12, 2017 again refers to the letter as something that happened in August.

Those dated reports directly contradict the article's claim that the letter was sent in August 2018.

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Claim
On 18 February 2020, the Utah State Legislature passed the proposal into law.
Correction

This did not become law on February 18, 2020. On that date the bill only passed the Utah House; it became law without the governor's signature on April 1, 2020.

Full reasoning

The legislative timeline contradicts this sentence.

  • Utah's official bill-status page for HB243 shows that on February 18, 2020 the bill passed the House and was sent to the Senate.
  • The same official page shows the bill became law without the governor's signature on April 1, 2020.
  • Contemporary reporting from Deseret News on February 18, 2020 also says the House passed the bill and that it "now goes to the Senate for consideration."

So February 18 was only a House vote, not the date the proposal "passed ... into law."

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