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Website outlook gives a value of around 62k USD http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.sex.com

Digg's net worth: $24.34 million.

Makes me wonder why its owners put so much effort into making it suck. Their discussion system used to be half decent. Then they changed it and it is totally useless again.

According to various internet sources (so take with a grain of salt):
Mark Zuckerberg's net worth: $2 billion. Made entirely from Facebook.
Twitter's net worth: $589 million.
Digg's net worth: $24.34 million.

Even if each individual datum is nearly worthless, the combined value is far from it. Do you think any of those companies would still be worth what they are if they're databases were irretrievably wiped?

Here's more info on this spammer. If slashdot blocks posts from 60.217.227.225, we'd be all set, unless these posts are being made with a proxy. If that's the case, how about blocking any posts with hrefs to coolforsale.com and flagging the UUID?

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.audiopod.ca

You really are an idiot, aren't you?

1) Go to http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.a-big-huge-giant-clits-hairy-wet-cunts.com
2) Observe text which says "Other Site On 63.243.140.77"
3) There is no step 3. Oh alright I'll spell it out for you because you're obviously not the sharpest tool in the box: 63.243.140.77 is what we in the trade call an IP address.

This is ridiculous. Are all furries this stupid?

A attack on my character, how sweet of you.

1) Somebody at Google decided that a site hosted on a shared server run by a very small company was bad.

Incorrect, a site was flagged by some users as being "bad".

2) They added this bad site's URL to the block list.

After Google confirms this, they would of added /A/ URL to the blocklist, be it some wildcard matching or such. Such as they did with mine.nu. where they blacklisted "http*://*.mine.nu/*" - Impossible to blacklist sites that do not have ".mine.nu/" in them.

3) The PERSON (not script--you keep using the word "matched" as if you think this is a script) at Google mistakenly believed the entire server to be a bad egg. Perhaps there were other malicious sites on there and he judged them all to be bad. Here is an example of a server with many bad sites on it: http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.a-big-huge-giant-clits-hairy-wet-cunts.com (notice how websiteoutlook is able to tell that they are on the same server. This is NOT witchery, it's an easy thing to tell). Google clearly likes to take all of the sites down in one swoop.

websiteoutlook.com is the domain, and yes, it's possible that Google filtered the domain. They do not however add filters to blacklist IP addresses. If this company did indeed have it's own site on it's own domain, this is not possible.

4) Every site on the server was blacklisted by URL, including the innocent site.

Again, they should of got their own domain. 6USD a year for a company is not going to break their budget, if it is, the company is dead already. Additionally, I do not believe when they became aware of the situation that they couldn't of done anything about it, such as.. Oh, I don't don't know.. Getting their own domain perhaps?

DO YOU GET IT NOW

I understand this company was extremely unprofessional because the examples you give me lead me to believe it did not truly have it's own domain. I also believe this company was not doing so well, since apparently it couldn't maintain business long enough to resolve the situation.

In fact, I even suspect that this whole business thing you came up with was a completely hypothetical situation that never occured.