YouPorn's own site reports that its owner is Midstream Media International N.V., seated in Willemstad, the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

[3] In 2011, YouPorn was purchased by the adult entertainment and IT company Manwin, owners of other popular pornographic websites such as Pornhub[1] and SpankWire based in Luxembourg.

[11] Following a request by Kirchberg, the owner of a competing pornography service (now defunct),[12] German provider Arcor categorized YouPorn and a few other porn sites as hardcore pornographic and also blocked access to the website at the routing level in September 2007,[13] affecting over 2 million users.

[15][16] On October 23, 2007, Arcor started to control access to YouPorn again, this time with a DNS-based approach that is easily circumvented,[17] and successfully filed an appeal against the injunction.

[22] In July 2009 Sri Lanka blocked access to 12 porn web sites including YouPorn, RedTube, XVideos and xHamster.

On July 25, 2009, Sri Lanka Chief Magistrate Nishantha Hapuarachchi ordered the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to block those 12 websites from all local Internet Service Providers.