Roksa: what happened to Poland’s biggest escort site
Published: August 24, 2026
If you have spent any time around escort ads in Poland, you have heard the name Roksa. For years the word was practically a synonym for the whole category — more people typed “roksa” into Google than the name of any competing site. Today the searches look different: “roksa down”, “what happened to roksa”. If you are new to the Polish market, here is the story of the site everyone keeps mentioning — and what its disappearance teaches about how this market works.
What roksa.pl was
Roksa launched in the early 2000s and remained Poland’s biggest escort advertising portal for close to two decades. For advertisers it was the default first choice — that is where the traffic went and where the position of your ad on the list actually mattered. For clients it was the reference point: the category layout, the city structure, the photo galleries and the way ads were presented were later copied by every smaller site. The same goes for features like photo verification or a comment system — when Roksa introduced something, the rest of the market eventually followed. For nearly twenty years one site effectively defined what Polish online escort advertising looked like. That is why its disappearance was felt by everyone, including people who never used it and are now looking for alternatives.
What happened in 2026
In 2026 the site’s operations were suspended by a prosecutor’s order. Visiting roksa.pl today shows only a notice that the domain has been seized — the ads, user accounts and paid packages are all inaccessible. According to media reports, the investigation concerns profiting from facilitating paid companionship services. For users the practical effect was immediate: the country’s largest source of escort ads vanished overnight, with no transition period and no way to retrieve your own content.
One thing needs to be stated clearly: a prosecutor’s order is not a verdict. Until the case is finally decided, the presumption of innocence applies, and everything known about the allegations comes exclusively from public media reporting. A separate matter is roksa.plus — a site that operates independently and presents itself as the successor of the old portal. Formally it is a distinct website, not an “unblocked” Roksa.
What the story teaches about the market
The Roksa case shows that in this industry a site’s operating model is not a technical detail — it is the fundamental question. Polish law, which we cover in more depth in is escorting legal in Poland, does not prohibit advertising yourself or publishing other people’s ads. What is criminal is facilitation and profiting from someone else’s prostitution (Article 204 of the Polish Penal Code): procuring, pandering and pimping.
The line therefore runs between hosting ads — the site publishes an ad, while contact and payment happen directly between the parties — and facilitation, where the operator takes part in arranging meetings or shares in the earnings. As a user, it is worth choosing sites built unambiguously on the right side of that line. That is how escortnow works: fees apply only to publishing and promoting an ad, the phone number in the ad leads directly to the advertiser, and the site takes no part in meetings or payments. Every ad also goes through moderation before publication.
Beware of sites trading on the brand
After the suspension, the web filled up with domains exploiting Roksa’s name recognition: addresses deceptively similar to the original, supposed “mirrors” and “new official sites”. Some are plain directories of copied, outdated ads, but others exist purely for fraud — the most dangerous being “recover your Roksa account” forms that ask for old logins, passwords or document scans. No new site has access to the suspended portal’s databases. How to tell a genuine ad from a fake one is covered in our separate guide.
Where to look for ads now
The market after Roksa has scattered and is reorganising itself. A practical overview of where to browse and post ads in Poland today is in where to post escort ads in Poland. Wherever you end up: moderation before publication, direct contact and zero prepayments are three things worth demanding from any site. The story of Poland’s biggest portal shows they matter not just for convenience, but for the stability of the whole market.