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AnonIB

AnonIB was a bulletin board website, founded in 2006, that allowed users to create and manage their own boards, then the ownership changed in 2008 and it gradually became an extremely shady pornography website that housed revenge porn until its original shutdown in 2014.

This is meant to be an informative article. I do not condone the website's actions for obvious reasons. This article only exists because its history can be tied to other anonymous bulletin board websites.

History

Around May 30, 2006, “Alphabet” set up AnonIB at “anonib.com” with a heavily modified Thorn, which did let people create and manage their own boards,1) then 4chan's “/b/-day” incident in August 23, 2006 boosted awareness. There is not a lot of information about this era, aside from BRchan, furry boards, and their constant server issues. At some point, AnonIB was then sold to “MindPoop” and “GodOfAnon” (GOA).

The FBI would start investigating AnonIB on April 25, 2008,2) and it's implied that the host, Rackspace, wanted to get rid of them.3)4) On the internet side, “MindPoop”5) was universally hated since AnonIB was infested with advertisements, malware, plus it didn't have any developers. Most of these early communities fled to ImageBoard4You (IB4F), YourSpiff, or finally set up their own website.

Following the alleged 420chan hack on August 16, 2009, which deleted everything, AnonIB started over with Kusaba X and temporarily allowed board requests, but quickly abandoned this for shady pornography. The ownership changed several times, while AnonIB openly housed child pornography6) and revenge porn,7) until it landed in the hands of an owner who simply decided to voluntarily shut AnonIB down in 2014.8)

Successors

Some former AnonIB users set up Anon-IB at “anon-ib.com” on February 28, 2014, but maintained its shady pornography aspect.9) This iteration became infamous for a celebrity nude leak (“The Fappening”).10) It eventually shut down on April 26, 2018, after the Dutch National Police seized their servers over reports of revenge porn,11)12)13)14) and the staff denied but refused to bring it back.15)

After this, there was NewChan on April 10, 2018, but it became a cash-grab.16) On January 27, 2020, a new instance of AnonIB appeared at “anonib.ru”, copied the NewChan database, and somehow bought the old “anonib.com” domain.17) This briefly caught wind on Facebook and TikTok. Currently, the website has multiple domains, which you can easily find on any archive of 4chan's /b/ (e.g. The /b/ Archive).

See also

  • 8chan - The spiritual successor from 2013–2019.
  • 12chan - A smaller website that also gained a reputation for child pornography.
  • IB4F - One of the AnonIB alternatives in the late 2000s.
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1)
"creating your own imageboard" (May 31, 2006). 4-ch /general/.
2) , 7)
"AnonIB". Federal Bureau of Investigation.
3)
"hey everyone, you can see the latest status of anonib on their blog at http://anonib.blogspot.com/. Currently the site is down as the host is trying to gouge them with a ridiculous price on bandwith.." (April 26, 2008). 4chan /s/.
4)
"/bara/ isn't doomed." When I say "it doesn't look good", I mean "it doesn't look good getting anonib back up anytime soon" The harddrive ships on the 30th, then they need to transfer all the files over, and then ship the box to a new hoster. I'd say it'll take at least a week before the site's back up unless they manage to get a deal with rackspace."" (April 28, 2008). 4chan /y/.
5)
"MindPoop" (April 8, 2009). MindPoop.
6)
It should be reminded that all 'teenage child pornography' (jailbait) is still considered 'child pornography', which goes over a lot of misogynistic young men's heads who didn't understand the gravity of the issue.
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"AnonIB" (February 27, 2014). AnonIB.
9)
"AnonIB // Best Anonymous Image Board" (March 4, 2014). Anon-IB.
10)
"" (September 3, 2014). Slate.
11)
"Vijf verdachten in omvangrijk cybercrime-onderzoek" (April 26, 2018). Politie.
12)
"Massive revenge porn site Anon-IB shut down by Dutch police" (April 27, 2018). CNET.
13)
"Dutch police have shut down Anon-IB in the course of a revenge porn investigation" (April 29, 2018). The Verge.
14)
"Dutch Authorities Seize Revenge Porn Site Anon-IB, Arrest Three Men" (April 29, 2018). Gizmodo.
15)
"Untitled" (April 27, 2018). Pastebin.
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This particular clone is known as NewChan, AnonSharer, AnonSocial, AnonReloaded, AnonImages, AnonMe, AnonPosted, Anon World, AnonPremium, AnonVault, etc.
17)
"Here's a particularly nasty development in the story of "Nick Lim and Jim Watkins service some awful websites" They are responsible for the continued existence of notorious revenge-porn website AnonIB after their servers were seized by Dutch authorities" (November 13, 2020). Twitter.
anonib.txt · Last modified: 2025-03-24 17:27:05 by namelessrumia