PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. PCI DSS is a Compliance standard developed in late 2004 by the main credit card companies as a method of preventing credit card fraud, hacking and security threats and vulnerabilities. In September, 2006, the PCI DSS standard was...... More »

When Ron Holiday returned to the adult market two years ago with webmaster affiliate program 12 Clicks Cash, it was almost like he'd never left. Having run the firm's parent company, Standard Internet, with his partner for 11 years, Holiday never lost touch with the friends and partnerships he'd...... More »

Internet billing has undergone a transformation over the past few years, with new stratagems emerging to give merchants a choice in how they want to collect. The two principal systems on the playing field today are Internet Payment Service Providers (IPSPs) — commonly known as third-party billers...... More »

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For the adult webmaster, volume is everything. Success is measured in hits and page views — and out of these large numbers only a small percentage of HTTP requests ever become customers. After all the effort the online adult businessperson goes through to advertise for traffic, the small fraction...... More »