Similar interface, child pornography… the “Coco” site is back despite the indictment of its founder

He’s back. Closed for almost two years, the “Coco.gg” site is once again accessible under a new URL address, reveals West France. Cited in 23,000 criminal proceedings, the platform was brought to light in 2024 in the Mazan rape case. It was via this site that Dominique Pelicot recruited around fifty men to rape his wife without her knowledge, for almost ten years.

According to our colleagues, the site “cocoland.cc” does not even attempt to conceal its affiliation. The visual identity remains identical, as does its operation. The user enters a pseudonym and an age, which cannot be verified, and can thus access the chat rooms.

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Its founder indicted

Isaac Steidl launched “Coco.fr” with his parents in 2010. Ten years later, the site became “Coco.gg”, with an address on the island of Guernsey in England, servers in Germany and hosting in Bulgaria. The French entrepreneur then left France and even renounced his nationality to continue to maintain his site.

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In January 2025, he was arrested in Paris following the revelations of the Pelicot affair. Since then, he has been indicted for aggravated pimping, child pornography and corruption of minors. According to Ouest-France, the owner of this new site used an anonymization service based in Rotterdam, Whois Privacy, well known to those who want to hide their identity.