Sure, and I certainly agree with that choice. In my (limited) experience, a Perl->PHP rewrite either indicates a desire for more developers or a seriously weird or outdated Perl architecture. The latter was quite common in the early days of the web, where basically everyone's first web page was a mess of Perl CGI (or mod_perl a bit later), but as YP isn't that old and performed well enough before, I wouldn't have thought that this was the case here. Thanks for confirming my suspicion, wasn't intended as criticism.
YouPorn-before-the-sale outed themselves as a Catalyst stack user some time back; memory says they offered to donate a machine to act as an irc.perl.org node to help the community out but then discovered that their ISP at the time wouldn't allow IRC ...