Democratic powerbrokers Ed and Brian Krassenstein have been exposed for owning domain names for teen pornography websites, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The Krassenstein brothers rose to internet fame for their critical responses to Donald Trump’s Twitter account during his presidency; their tweets promoting Democrats and criticizing Republicans, especially Trump, regularly received millions of views.
But the twins, 42, are now fighting an online battle for their own reputation after their nemesis, right-wing science writer Dr Simon Goddek, claimed 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 pornographic site of any kind” but admitted to buying website addresses in bulk.
Ed and Brian Krassenstein, 42, are now waging an online battle for their own reputations after they were accused of purchasing multiple internet domains for a shocking collection of pornographic sites.
Right-wing science writer Dr Simon Goddek took to X this week to share screenshots that appeared to show Ed’s email address being linked to several teen porn sites, including ’17onlygirls.com’.
Ed Krassenstein’s email and username were linked to domains including ’17onlygirls.com,’ according to screenshots Goddek posted on Xformerly known as Twitter.
Other sites with domains previously registered to their email address include Porn4.us, BigBoobFilm.com, and homosexuals.co.in.
Screenshots of his messages from 2007 appear to show him negotiating the purchase of three addresses: TeenPies.com, TeenPie.com and TeenPorn101.com.
There is no suggestion that the Krassensteins ran pornographic sites themselves, but by purchasing domains from pornographic sites, they profited from selling or renting those addresses.
In a message dated September 17, 2007, a user named ‘edbri871′, which matches Brian’s Pinterest username and the Krassensteins’ email used to register the pornographic site addresses, responded to a post offering to sell the apparent addresses of teen pornographic sites.
“What price are you looking for on these? Did you have them parked and if so how much were they going for?” wrote user edbri871.
‘Response sent via (private message),’ the seller, 458domains, replied.
In other posts on the same site, user edbri871 logged out under the name ‘Brian’.
Goddek posted screenshots of Ed Krassenstein’s post on the Hosting Talk website, where the left-wing influencer wrote that he was “looking to buy sites that are established and making regular monthly profits,” adding that he was “particularly interested in Forum and sites that are targeted at young adults/teens.”
Brian Krassenstein wrote on X on Wednesday that the request was for fan club websites for musicians and artists.
Screenshots of messages from 2007 appear to show Brian Krassenstein negotiating the purchase of three addresses: TeenPies.com, TeenPie.com and TeenPorn101.com
A screenshot posted showed a post from user ‘edbri871’ who was ‘looking to buy sites that are established and generating regular monthly profits’, adding that he was ‘particularly interested in forums and sites that are targeted towards young adults/teens’.
The email address appeared as a “registrant” for different pornographic websites in a Google search.
He also responded to Goddek’s posts on Tuesday.saying: ‘We never hosted a porn site in our lives. What we did 18 years ago was buy and sell huge portfolios of domain names. We owned over 15,000 domain names, not websites, and we traded them.’
Goddek, who runs a science news site that describes itself as fighting pseudoscience, responded: “It’s written in black and white – there are screenshots showing you were buying teen porn domains (which you call a wallet, lol) with traffic.
“The evidence is hitting you right in the face, but you keep claiming it’s not true. Enough 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 them were taken down immediately as soon as we could. None of them EVER became a website or a pornographic site,” he wrote.
The Krassensteins have previously been in trouble for their online activity.
Federal agents raided their homes and seized nearly half a million dollars from the brothers in 2017, Allegedly obtained from the sale of Ponzi scheme advertisements on investment web forums they ran..
They denied wrongdoing and avoided arrest or criminal charges in a deal with the government in which they agreed to lose about $450,000 from the sale of a rental property.
Democratic influencers, who rose to fame for their critical responses to Donald Trump’s Twitter account during his presidency, have already faced problems for their online activity.
Ed Krassenstein told DailyMail.com that he and his brother never purchased the domain names TeenPies.com, TeenPie.com or TeenPorn101.com.
He added that they may appear as registrants of some domain names because they held them temporarily as intermediaries for other buyers and sellers, not because they owned the web addresses.
Ed said he couldn’t remember whether he or his brother negotiated the web addresses for “teen pies,” but also suggested some of the screenshots could be fabricated.
The brothers, raised in New Jersey, have been in business together since they were 15, when they sold baseball cards online.
He added that they may appear as registrants of some domain names because they held them temporarily as intermediaries for other buyers and sellers, not because they owned the web addresses.
Ed said he couldn’t remember whether he or his brother negotiated the web addresses for “teen pies,” but also suggested some of the screenshots could be fabricated.
He added that they may appear as registrants of some domain names because they held them temporarily as intermediaries for other buyers and sellers, not because they owned the web addresses.
Ed said he couldn’t remember whether he or his brother negotiated the web addresses for “teen pies,” but also suggested some of the screenshots could be fabricated.
Their other business ventures include a political news site called Hill Reporter, which they sold in 2019, and a website dedicated to 3D printing resources, which they sold in 2015.
They ran the investment forums TalkGold and MoneyMakerGroup until the Justice Department charged them with profiting from Ponzi scheme promoters through those sites.
Ed Krassenstein he told the Daily Beast in 2018 that their forums only served to “help people discover which online business opportunities were legitimate and which were not.”
At the height of their fame ranting against Donald Trump on Twitter in 2019, they were followed by US Congressmen Eric Swalwell, Ayanna Pressley, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker, as well as media personalities Van Jones and Megyn Kelly.
They were banned from Twitter in May of that year for allegedly operating fake accounts, but their accounts were reinstated after Elon Musk took over the company.
They clashed on social media with conservative lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene and frequently chatted online with Democratic “Squad” member Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
Ed admitted that he started his account as a Justin Bieber fan page, which allowed him to gain thousands of followers, before changing his name.
They currently have a combined total of 1,921,685 followers on X.
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