In 1998, while still enlisted, Watkins created a website for Japanese pornography called "Asian Bikini Bar".
[1][4] By hosting it in the United States, he was able to circumvent strict
Japanese censorship of pornography. He later renamed the venture "N.T. Technology", which according to Watkins was a meaningless acronym meant to make pornography purchases less conspicuous on credit card statements.
[4] N.T. Technology, which is based in
Reno, Nevada, initially sold advertising, and later also sold web hosting services to other Japanese
adult entertainment websites that couldn't be hosted in Japan.
[4][2] In 1998 or 1999, during the
dot-com boom, Watkins left the army to focus on N.T. Technology.
[4] In October 2020,
Mother Jones reported that N.T. Technology has hosted domains with names suggesting connections to
child pornography, and that regardless of whether child pornography is hosted on the domains, Watkins is "profiting from words that appeal to the real thing"