Gunz Blazing has announced that from the 29th of January until the 7th of February participating webmasters will get paid $50 per join for all trials and full priced sign ups to their Black Gay Porn site Dark Thunder and Thug Orgy.  If you’ve got traffic that appreciates hot black men and hardcore thug action this is your opportunity to cash in.

Panorama Pacific Ltd., best known for their Cybersocket Award winning website Asian Boykakke, announce this week the release of their newest DVD “Raw Asian Holes 2″, a sequel to their smash #1 hit “Raw Asian Holes”.

The sequel follows the successful sell out of the original title and is currently available to retailers in the American market.  The HD film, which was shot in Asia, features 6 Asian guys and 29 cum shots.

“We are happy to continue our tradition of bringing consumers of our products exactly what they are looking for: the cutest exotic gay Asian Twinks in the highest quality and raunchiest action,” said producer DannyZ.

Retailers whishing to order copies of “Raw Asian Holes 2″ can visit the All Boys Distribution web site or call 877-5-ALLBOYS.

If you have been following the two popular gay adult industry webmaster forums, its old news BukBuddies, and sister site HornyHounDogs, has been sold to SOBV, aka Gay Gravy and Gay Pay.  At least that’s the conclusion everyone has drawn, based on a few key observations.

The sponsor program originally used by these two sites was, and still is, CCBill.  I say this, because the sites’ affiliate join pages continue to use CCBill.  However, the membership join pages are now using NATS.  While programs can migrate to NATS and set things up so their old CCBill links still work, there has apparently been no attempt to notify existing affiliates of any change.  Thus, old CCBill links may, or may not, be crediting the referring webmasters for any sales.  We simply don’t know, because there has been no official statement from either the original or alleged new owners.

Another indicator is the “presumed” recent addition of a nasty pop up promoting Gay Gravy sites.  However, the most convincing evidence SOBV has purchased these two sites comes from a report by a prominent and well respected webmaster.  The webmaster states that when he contacted BukBuddies about this they would only refer him to a SOBV support Email address.

Best I can determine, public discussion of this began on Friday the 22nd.  So it is reasonable to assume both SOBV and CCBill may not be aware of the negative dialog.  History has shown both companies monitor the forums and respond when they are the topic of discussion, particularly when the context is pessimistic.  I am optimistic SOBV, and perhaps CCBill, will make a public statement on Monday.  We will just have to wait and see.

Despite any future comment by the concerned parties, it is clear to everyone this presumed sale to SOBV has been very poorly managed.  Assuming they are the new owners, SOBV’s questionable handling of this transition only adds credibility to past accusations of unethical business practices. One would assume, after all of the negative press this company has endured, they’d pay more attention to public relations, but apparently that’s not yet sunk in.

Silence on the part of the original owners could be justified if there are contractual restrictions.  That said, they have a history of siphoning off webmaster traffic through numerous site tour leaks, so it seems fairly obvious where they stand.

Lucas Kazan has just informed me their affiliate tour pages no longer feature the newsletter e-mail collection, nor the Facebook/Twitter links. He also assured me they won’t find their way back into the tour.  In addition, they are testing to make sure the debit card join option is cascading to CCBill.  Once they are confident all is working as it should they’ll add some clarification language to the webmaster page and send out a notification to existing affiliates.

I just noticed Straight Fraternity has added a pop up page with 13 banners on it promoting other programs’ sites.  In addition they have a link in the top menu bar of their site tour which takes visitors to a links page that includes the same 13 banners.  The menu bar also links to a DVD store.

Apparently these guys have forgotten they need to pay for affiliate webmaster traffic, not siphon it off for their own exclusive gain!

There are a lot of domains and businesses being bought and sold in the industry right now, arguably more than ever before.  For big ticket transactions it’s always wise to use a reliable third party escrow service as a means of protecting both the buyer and seller.

Over the years I’ve noticed that escrow services, both within the industry and mainstream, charge a hefty fee for brokering these transactions.  I have not done an in depth study on this, but it seems that 10 percent is a common fee.  I must assume if an attorney is paid to manage the escrow his or her fee will be as much, if not greater.  And if that attorney also represents one of the parties there is a clear conflict of interest.

The other day I was chatting with on old friend that’s been in the adult business as long as yours truly.  He was telling me about the very lucrative sale of a domain he owns to an Israel based company.  My first question was had he employed a third party escrow service.  He said, “yes, Escrow.com.”  I had not heard of them and asked what their fee was for brokering the transaction.  He told me they are charging him less than one percent.  Well, I about fell out of my chair when I heard that.

He went on to say that he’s used them several times over the years and is very happy with the service.  One of the things he likes about them is they have a process that keeps things moving forward, so the sale can not get bogged down by one or both parties dragging their heels.

I visited the Escrow.com web site and looked at their fee calculation page.  Sure enough, their service fee is as low as 0.89 percent.  Transactions less than 25k are charged a higher percentage, but it still comes in way below 10 percent.

I am not in a position to recommend Escrow.com, as I’ve never used their services.  Even so, I think they are worth investigating as an alternative to the more expensive options out there.

There is a new method for unscrupulous programs to siphon off affiliate traffic.  They are redirecting all cell phone and other mobile traffic to a site that cuts the webmaster out of receiving a commission.  One program owner, who has proven to be a reliable source over the years, told me that Top Bucks approached him offering a high commission if he would redirect his mobile traffic to one of their sites.  You can be sure I’ll post about any program I discover doing this.

Badpuppy, the oldest gay porn site on the Internet, has at long last brought their Puppy Cash affiliate program out of the dark ages.  In my opinion, the improvements they’ve made place them among the top five best gay porn affiliate programs in the industry, and they are still making improvements.

Over the past year or so we saw Badpuppy moving their affiliate program in a more competitive direction with higher rev-share payouts, PPS, an ePassporte payment option,  RSS feed, and biweekly newsletter. All of this was a prelude to launching the completely redesigned and upgraded Puppy Cash.  Most notable is the promotional tools section that offers a dedicated page for each update.  On that page you can get most anything a webmaster would want in the way of promotional materials.

Badpuppy has also made improvements to their biweekly newsletter.  It is more condensed, less repetitive, and sample images for the new model pages are larger so we can quickly identify what niche they best fit in.  I won’t let the “dog” out of the bag, but Lisa tells me other improvements for both newsletter and web site are in the works.

Of course, the folks at Badpuppy will be quick to tell anyone these improvements have been driven by webmaster feedback.  Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?