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Reply Buzzer Ltd
23 February 2026
We are investigating whether Reply Buzzer Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023 (‘the Act’) to prevent children from encountering pornographic content on its services through the use of highly effective age assurance.
We are also investigating whether Reply Buzzer Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duty to respond accurately to an information notice sent under the Act.
Sections 12 and 102(8) of the Online Safety Act 2023.
On 19 March 2026, Ofcom issued a formal information notice to Reply Buzzer Ltd under section 100 of the Act. As at the date of this announcement, we have not received a response to the information notice. Ofcom has therefore now expanded this investigation to include consideration of whether Reply Buzzer Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duty to respond to an information notice sent under the Act.
On 20 February 2026, under our enforcement programme to protect children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance, we opened an investigation into Reply Buzzer Ltd in relation to the following adult services which it operates: 4kporn.xxx, crazyporn.xxx, hoes.tube, and love4porn.com. If we identify further adult services operated by Reply Buzzer Ltd that fall within the scope of the Act, we may expand the investigation to include those services.
Ofcom’s investigation will examine whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the provider has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duties under section 12 of the Act, to prevent children from encountering pornographic content through the use of highly effective age assurance. These duties have applied since 25 July 2025, and Reply Buzzer Ltd is responsible for complying with the duties from the date it became the provider for the services.
Ofcom’s Online Safety Enforcement Guidance sets out how Ofcom will normally approach enforcement under the Act. This includes our approach to information gathering and analysis and the procedural steps we must take to fairly determine the outcome of the investigation.
We will provide an update on the investigation in due course.
CW/01335/02/26