Democrat influencer twins Ed and Brian Krassenstein are accused of owning multiple PORN site domains

By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com Published: 17:44 BST, 30 August 2024 | Updated: 18:36 BST, 3 September 2024 111 View comments Democrat influencers Ed and Brian Krassenstein have been exposed for owning porn website domains, DailyMail.com can reveal.  The Krassenstein brothers shot to internet fame over their critical replies to Donald Trump’s Twitter account during his presidency, with their tweets promoting Democrats and slamming Republicans – especially Trump – regularly receiving millions of views.Gay porno But the twins, 42, are now fighting an online battle for their own reputations after their nemesis, right-wing science writer Dr. Simon Goddek, claimed that the brothers have a history of owning domains for a shocking collection of porn sites. In a statement on social media, the brothers said they have ‘never run a porn site of any kind’ – but admitted to buying website addresses in bulk. Ed and Brian Krassenstein, 42, are now fighting an online battle for their own reputations after they were accused of buying up multiple internet domains for a shocking collection of porn sites Right-wing science writer Dr. Simon Goddek took to X this week to share screenshots that appeared to show Ed’s email address is linked to various porn site domains and one address called ’17onlygirls.com’ Ed Krassenstein’s email and username was linked to domains including ’17onlygirls.com’, according to screenshots Goddek posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. Other sites with domains previously registered to his email address include Porn4.us, BigBoobFilm.com, and homosexuals.co.in. Screenshots of his messages from 2007 appear to show him negotiating over buying three addresses: TeenPies.com, TeenPie.com, and TeenPorn101.com.   There is no suggestion that the Krassensteins ran porn sites themselves. But by buying porn site domains, they stood to gain from selling or leasing those addresses.  In a message dated September 17 2007, a user called ‘edbri871′ – which matches Brian’s Pinterest username and the Krassensteins’ email used to register the porn site addresses – replied to a post that was offering to sell the apparent teen porn site addresses. ‘What price are you looking for for these? Did you have them parked and if so what were they making?’ the user edbri871 wrote. ‘Reply sent via [private message]’ the seller, 458domains, responded. In other messages on the same site, the user edbri871 signed off with the name ‘Brian’. Goddek published screenshots of Ed Krassenstein’s post on site Web Hosting Talk, where the left wing influencer wrote he was ‘looking to purchase sites that are established and are earning a regular monthly profit’, adding that he was ‘particularly interested in Forum, and sites that are aimed towards young adults/teens.’ Brian Krassenstein wrote on X on Wednesday that the request was for fan club websites for musicians and entertainers. He also hit back at Goddek’s posts on Tuesday, saying: ‘We never hosted any porn sites in own [sic] lives. What we did do 18 years ago was buy and sell huge portfolios of domains names. We owned upwards of 15,000 domain names, not websites, and brokered them.’ Goddek, who runs a science news site which describes itself as combating pseudoscience, replied: ‘It’s written in black and white—there are screenshots showing that you were purchasing teen porn domains (which you call portfolio lol) with traffic. Screenshots of messages from 2007 appear to show Brian Krassenstein negotiating over buying three addresses: TeenPies.com, TeenPie.com, and TeenPorn101.com One published screenshot showed a post from user ‘edbri871’ who was ‘looking to purchase sites that are established and are earning a regular monthly Profit’, adding that he was ‘particularly interested in Forum, and sites that are aimed towards young adults/teens’ The email address appeared as the ‘registrant’ for different porn website domains in a Google search  ‘The evidence is hitting you right in the face, yet you continue to claim it’s not true. Enough with the lies.’ In a lengthy response on X, Brian Krassenstein wrote that ‘between 2001 and 2011, we operated a massive domain name brokerage and parking business’ of up to 15,000 web addresses, and that ‘less than 0.2%’ were ‘adult-oriented’. ‘Most of these were immediately dropped as soon as we were able to. None of them were EVER developed into websites or porn sites,’ he wrote. The Krassensteins have previously been in trouble over their online activity. Federal agents raided their homes and seized almost half a million dollars from the brothers in 2017, allegedly obtained from selling ads for Ponzi schemes on investment web forums that they ran. They denied wrongdoing, and avoided arrest or criminal charges in an agreement with the government, in which they consented to forfeit about $450,000 by selling a rental property. Ed Krassenstein told DailyMail.com that he and his brother never bought the domain names TeenPies.com, TeenPie.com, or TeenPorn101.com. He added that they may appear as registrants for some domain names because they temporarily held them as middle men for other buyers and sellers, not because they owned the web addresses themselves. Ed said that he did not remember whether or not his brother or he negotiated over the ‘teen pies’ web addresses, but also suggested that some of the screenshots could be fabricated.   The brothers, raised in New Jersey, have been in business together since the age of 15 when they sold baseball cards online. He added that they may appear as registrants for some domain names because they temporarily held them as middle men for other buyers and sellers, not because they owned the web addresses themselves. The Democratic influencers, who rose to fame over their critical replies to Donald Trump ‘s Twitter account during his presidency, have previously been in trouble over their online activity. Ed said that he did not remember whether or not his brother or he negotiated over the ‘teen pies’ web addresses, but also suggested that some of the screenshots could be fabricated. Ed also told DailyMail.com that 17onlygirls.com was ‘not a teen porn site’ and ‘was a domain name that was completely unrelated to porn whatsoever’. It is currently a defunct address. Their other business ventures have included a politics news site called Hill Reporter, which they sold in 2019, and a website devoted to 3D printing resources, which they sold in 2015. They ran investment forums TalkGold and MoneyMakerGroup until the Department of Justice accused them of profiting from Ponzi scheme promoters through the sites. Ed Krassenstein told the Daily Beast in 2018 that their forums were merely ‘to help people find out which online business opportunities were legitimate and which were not.’ At the height of their fame railing against Donald Trump on Twitter in 2019, they were followed by US Congress members Eric Swalwell, Ayanna Pressley, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker, as well as media personalities Van Jones and Megyn Kelly. In May that year they were banned from Twitter for allegedly operating fake accounts, but their accounts were reinstated after Elon Musk took over the company. They have got into social media spats with conservative firebrand lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, and often conversed online with Democrat ‘Squad’ member Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Ed has admitted he started his account as a Justin Bieber fan page, which garnered him thousands of followers, before he renamed it. They currently have a combined 1,921,685 followers on X. Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group