How Backpage Became MILFS.com
The Backpage.com URL now redirects to MILFS.com, a webcamming platform that offers users live erotic chat and pornographic shows with a cornucopia of women who may or may not actually be moms.
In case anyone isn’t aware, here’s what the acronym MILF stands for…though as Julian Sanchez quipped on BlueSky, perhaps in this instance, it could also stand for “Moms I’d Like to Federally Seize.”
Backpage was once a thriving platform for classified advertisements, particularly favored by people posting “adult” ads. But the federal government decided there was too much free speech happening on Backpage, so it seized the website and put its founders and executives on trial for facilitating prostitution.
From April 6, 2018, until very recently, visitors to Backpage.com would be greeted by the logos of several federal agencies and a notice stating: “backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division.” It looked like this:
Here’s what visitors to Backpage.com today will see:
How did Backpage.com come to be redirected to MILFS.com?
It seems as if the feds let the Backpage.com domain name lapse, and ICF Technology—the company behind MILFS.com—snapped it up.
According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Backpage.com registry information was updated on February 21, 2025 and again on February 24.
The site is now registered to NameBrightPrivacy.com, but this is a proxy.
“Proxy services allow a domain name to keep certain identity and contact details from appearing in public Whois information,” notes ICANN. “The proxy service becomes the registered name holder of record, and its identity and contact information is displayed in Whois data.”
ICANN lists the Backpage.com registrar—the entity responsible for registering and maintaining a domain name—as DropCatch.com, a domain auction site.
“Each day, thousands of domain names fail to be renewed and become available to the public,” the DropCatch website states. “A small percentage of these domains have a high
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