Kinky Sex Link

You remember Femdomart.ru, right? The Russian site with almost every conceivable piece of femdom art on there? It came and went in just under four years (Mar 2004-Feb 2008), leaving behind a host of broken links and a pretty big hole in the femdom internet landscape. Lots of other collections out there have tried to put it all together but this was the real thing, thorough, well organised and totally free.

Here’s a couple of stats images to show just how popular it was. The first is from TalkReviews.ru, who show the stats in the thousands at the end of 07 to 08. Looks like a fair few folk are still going there even though it has gone offline…

The next chart (which I have forgotten where I got it from) shows daily reach per million in the site’s final year. You can see the escalating popularity just before it went down…

So, what happened…? Four pages list details on the sites history and ownership:

• http://whois.domaintools.com/femdomart.ru
• http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/femdomart.ru
• http://www.aboutus.org/FemdomArt.ru
• http://builtwith.com/?FemdomArt.ru

From these, it’s possible to discern that the owner was a guy called Vyatcheslav G. Vasiliev, who has it parked until the middle of next year with a German domain company called Sedo…and that’s really about all. No sign of a comeback from our friend Vyatcheslav any time soon, as far as I am aware. But all is not lost! In fact, very little of the site has escaped the archivers. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet Wayback Machine, you can go can take a look at Femdomart.ru on the day it was launched, the day it was taken offline and about eighty other days in between.

Check it out (the last page is the best!).

Just to prove it…this image is not hosted, but hotlinked, people. And there’s thousands more just like it on the archive site.

(Hint: even if you can’t seem the thumbnail images, click on the image sign and it may appear in a new window.)

Happy New Year.

Steve Mayhew.