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F*ckedCompany.com For Sale - On eBay
A reader "This is for real. FuckedCompany.com is for sale!
The owner is selling it on eBay. Six hours ago it was at $2.24 with 2 bidders, but now it's up to 40 bidders, at $20,300.
See the auction right now.
" Somehow, I think this is the logical extension of the eBay philosphy. You can read about it on the Web site as well.
Update: 09/11 01:53 PM by CT : Two points: this is a real Web site, not just a domain name. Its actually really funny: you rate companies' chances of survival. But this really is just a stunt to draw press (like this) and traffic (if you happen to click the link above) to a clever site. It's a cute one and an interesting site for gauging people's opinions of companies.
I don't know - you post a comment that is used to update the article text and then you get moderated down for being overrated. I don't want to play any more. :-)
Rob.
Unfortunately its already slashdotted. It just shows a 404 too many users connected.
Perhaps because, at least in part, /. headlines are available for posting on other sites via RDF and it's kind of rude to force other sites to either put obscenities on their pages?
And I don't see that trying to be a little polite (not that f*ck* is much of a figleaf) counts as "censorship". What information has been surpressed?
--meredith
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis
Now that the bid has reach 10,000,000 $, what do you think he is going to do ? Open a venture cap firm ?
That would be cool... I can just imagine somebody saying "I've been funded by the ex-owner of F*ckedcompany.com... This proves that my idea is good !"
9 more days to go with the bid...
et les Shadoks pompaient...
I thought I would note that EBay is maxed out on this item at $10,000,000.00. Here is a note from someone that retracted their bid (and someone else shortly took their spot).
Retracted. Bids prior to Sep-11-00 10:15:34 PDT have been retracted.
Explanation: Oh hell, maxed out Ebay, doesnt look like someone will outbid me now
nebulo
that PC Data Online quote got my attention, so I went looking:
fuckedcompany:
AUGUST: #5013 (overall rank) (vs 6415 in July)
page views: 15m (vs 3.8m in July)
unique users: 199k (vs 184k in July)
slashdot:
AUGUST: #2532 (overall rank) (vs 1912 in July)
page views: 15.9m (vs 11.1m in July)
unique users: 393k (vs 487k in July)
Since we know that slashdot does 30m+ pages, pcdataonline is obviously extrapolating average joe window users over the entire population...
for fuckedcompany.com, things are probably more accurate.
But the rank pcdataonline shows for fuckedcompany does not correspond with the info Pud included on ebay.. although he is right about it rising fast.
I know that pcdataonline can be pretty correct, because they got my little hobby site (dslreports.com) about right, both unique users and pageviews as well.. 9m page views and quarter of a million uniques!
Why go public when there is ebay?
OTOH, out of sixty some bids, there have only been twenty some bidders (in other words some bidders have bid more than once, i.e. they've come back to bid anew after being outbid the first time.) There have also been two retractions, one of which had a great explanation:
So the question is, how many of the bids have been serious? I'm pretty sure the 'winner' (I don't know if 'winner' is a good title for the winning bidder of this one) could make a good case that since some of the bidding was fraudelent (dweebs dorking around the system just to see how high they can get the price to go), they can back out.
IIRC, something similiar happened with Sue, the T-Rex. The owner put her bones on ebay and jokers spoiled the auction. The owner eneded up reauctioning the bones on millionaire.com where bidders are pre-qualified.
I'm also jealous as spit. I've made close to $1,000 this year on ebay by auctioning off my unwanted junk. I should have just started a weblog and auctioned it...
seems current bidding is up to 10 million dollars....& item=434391456
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
It's going for what now????
.com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
oh, and here's the whois..
[root@bigfreak bounce]# whois fuckedcompany.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: FUCKEDCOMPANY.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: www.opensrs.org
Name Server: DS1.VIRTUALSCAPE.COM
Name Server: DS2.VIRTUALSCAPE.COM
Updated Date: 26-jun-2000
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 04:45:28 EDT
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
Registrant:
PK Interactive, Inc.
5 West 31st Street 7th Floor
New York, NY 10001
US
Domain Name: FUCKEDCOMPANY.COM
Administrative Contact:
Kaplan, Philip pk@pkinteractive.com
212-273-9623
Technical Contact:
Registration, Domain domreg@optisoft.com
816 455 7939
Billing Contact:
Kaplan, Philip pk@pkinteractive.com
212-273-9623
Record last updated on 11-Sep-2000.
Record expires on 27-May-2001.
Record Created on 27-May-2000.
Domain servers in listed order:
DS1.VIRTUALSCAPE.COM 209.213.96.2
DS2.VIRTUALSCAPE.COM 209.213.97.214
this is my sig.
The domain name for sale on Ebay is actually F * ckedcompany.com, not F u ckedCompany.com. What if someone pays $10M for F o ckedcompany.com or F q ckedcompany.com??
;-)
cpeterso
I wonder if anyone owns fuckedcompay.com. Spell checker, anyone?
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The other day we got offered a lot of money for the domain name Deliver.com and the toll free number 1-877-DELIVER. We declined the offer because we are considering using the brand to build the world's first completely "Open" company.
Taking the concepts of transparency and freedom that the open source movement now enjoys, our vision of an Open company is one where the business practices and procedures of the firm are freely accessible to anyone to review and 'hack'.
The stakeholders of Deliver.com Inc. - its shareholders, customers, and employees - would all have the ability to suggest, debate, and vote on changes to every aspect of the company - from top-level strategy to tax structuring to privacy procedures - all via the web.
All company data and information - except personal customer and employee files - would be freely available to all.
Has anyone seen any good writings that explore this type of approach?
Is this just a crazy idea, or might it work?
Or should we just auction domain name off?
It's kind of sad when moderators can't tell the difference between Funny and Informative.
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Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
Posting in case others don't get the joke of what the domain/logo/concept is parodying:
Fast Company is a rah-rah newspaper that tells how wonderous all the dot-com companies are doing and how successful they all are. F*cked Company is a rather logical nomenclature for FC's antithesis newsletter during these months of cleaning out the dot-com failures.
Fast Company actually has a feature headline today: "When the going gets tough, the tough get real". Those flipping through the dot-com carnage at F*cked Company may beg to differ.
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It's now k$50+, but the reserve still hasn't been met. Where did he set the reserve, 7 figures? 8?
Since very few people who are posting seem to realize this, fuckedcompany.com is a full website, not just a domain. This isn't YADS (Yet Another Domain Sale).
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Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
alright, after seeing that email that the FC webmaster sent - yeah. fscking good joke, too.
lf.o
My company was fucked long before the web site existed. Therefore they are infringing on my IP. I believe I'll ask for it back as soon as we clear all those escaped zoo monkeys out of shipping/receiving.
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The truth is out th- oh, wait, here it is...
Um....if it's not being enforced by a government agency, the term CANNOT be considered to be 'censorship', in this case, it is simply called 'editing'.
A sentence you'll never see on an Internet discussion board: "You know what? You're right."
http://www.fuckedcompany. com//ubb/Forum1/HTML/000403.html
It's not totally about me (I'm just the "burgerflipper" mentioned about halfway down), but about a VC project that I do some consulting for. Anyway, three cheers for the "real" FC!
Can your IM do this?
OMG that can't be right!
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It's at 25000 now and still the reserve's not met. Any chance they're just doing it for publicity and the reserve's sky high?
Rob.
I can see it now, fuckedcompany.com's new CEO- some kid who snatched it up at the last minute with a perl script...
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I wonder if Amazon.com is one of the bidders? If not, they should be. They deserve it.
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how can someone sell something they don't own.
I thought the courts decided domain names were not property
http://Lenny.com
'Scuse me? Every respectable newspaper practices the censored type of journalism you preach? Look just over the last 2 weeks. How 'bout the phrase uttered by Presidential candidate Bush when he called a reporter "New York Times Asshole"? Bush's words were broadcast, unchanged, by every major TV network, and carried, uncensored, by most newspapers, including my home town paper, the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
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DAILY ROTATION
this site is great. great resource for checking out potential clients. the whole attitude of the site kicks ass. they get people to sell out their own companies for points on fucked company. hilarious.
Either a Linux zealot buys it and devotes fuckedcompany.com to bashing Microsoft, or a Microsoft zealot buys it and devotes the site to bashing SuSE, RedHat, etc, etc, etc.
Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick, some days I'm thankful that ridiculopathy.com is non-profit (i.e. we're too lazy to set up an ad contract).
www.ridiculopathy.com
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How is LNUX doing these days???
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"A witty saying proves nothing" - Voltaire
Anyone who had been to the eBay link would see that's how it's written there. Of course, anyone that smart prolly wouldn't post such silly questions here.
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Umm, such as when K-Mart or whoever announced they would card people buying "M" games, or Indinapolis (sp) introduced legislation for separating violent arcade games. That was evil as it was a big bad company violating first amendment rights, but as it's only plucky little Slashdot here, well, it's just an asterisk, so what's the problem?
Fucking hypocrits.
completely wrong, as a quick perusal of "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill will reveal. Or, for that matter a decent dictionary.
-- the most controversial site on the Web
Rumors says: "He was drunk this morning and accidently put the company for sale."
If you read the description on Ebay, you'll see that it is a bit more legit than a drunken little trip to ebay. According to Ebay (or the description on ebay), the site is a side project of Pud (creator of the site), and he's getting tired of maintaining it. Apparently it's taking more time than he would like it to. But the site seems to be pretty popular, and I can see why he wouldn't want it to simply fade out.
On a side note, he apparently has agreed to remain onboard for a certain amount of time to help with the transition (to be agreed upon with the buyer).
So as you see, the "I was bored..." statement on his site is obviously a low-energy statement as a result of his loss of interest in his site. It was a good maketing move too...as it'll raise him a lot more money than he had hoped for, i'm sure.
Did they post themeselves on their site?
No no no! It's a regexp! It means one of these: ckedcompany.com Fckedcompany.com FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFckedcompany.com
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Anybody know what the current record ebay bid spread is? I mean, hell, this auction started at $1 and is now at $10,000,000. If that's not a record, I'd be impressed.
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
Too bad there are no Bids on it yet.
somehow i think the site isn't really gonna get sold. Well either that or this guy is never gonna have to work again (check the bid).
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
Hey, I own www.yourmojo.com is that worth anything?
:)
Just wondering if I can buy that beach house yet
I am become Troll, destroyer of threads
His name is Ed Reed, and he's a college student here at RPI. He's a sophomore and has no intentions of paying
Cnet's story
No it's still at 9.33mil. As for the guy who bid 10mil, he can kiss my f*cking asterisk.
Check out the rules on the eBay site:
t ml#bab
) or the transaction is prohibited by law or by this Agreement. By bidding on an item you agree to be bound by the conditions of sale included in the item's description (or linked to from the description) so long as those conditions of sale are not in violation of this Agreement or unlawful. Bids are not retractable except in exceptional circumstances such as when the seller materially changes the item's description after you bid, a clear typographical error is made, or you cannot authenticate the seller's identity. If you choose to bid on adult items, you are certifying that you have the legal right to purchase such items."
http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-user.h
"Bidding and Buying.
If you are the highest bidder at the end of an auction (meeting the applicable minimum bid or reserve requirements) and your bid is accepted by the seller, you are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller, unless the item is listed in a category under the Non-Binding Bid Policy (at http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-nbb.html
The problem with this is, that I believe nobody has yet taken anyone to court over refusing to honour a bid. So, as far as I know, no precedent has been set. I'd be happy to know otherwise, then I'd be more likely to follow up on the joker that backed out on their winning bid for my 4WD.
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Well, it's at least innaccurate - the name of the site (and more importantly, it's domain name) is "fuckedcompany.com". An asterisk isn't even legal in a domain name, at that. You can't include a link without spelling it out at least once, so any other munging is pointless at best and hypocritical at worst (if it's not ok to say "fuck", it shouldn't really be ok to link to a page that will sprinkle that term liberally around unless there's a substantial warning of the fact - which is obviously not going to appear on /.). Even if it's only the headline that was munged, as in this case.
/. article (in part *because* of the RDF propagation) should spell it correctly without euphemism. The site (which is quite interesting in concept) *really is* about completely fucked companies, not f*cked ones or fscked ones or mildly addled ones. Sometimes a rose needs to be called a rose. If it's offensive to a site receiving the story via RDF, they should probably just reconsider whether they really want to be associated with slashdot, because it's going to happen in future with far more objectionable content than this.
In this particular case I'd say the
A nit over 2 hits per second works out to 200k page vies a day which nets you $1200 in guaranteed (banner paid) revenue. This site gets a lot of eyeballs - but certainly isnt worth 10 mil by any stretch.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.
Everyone knows me.
Most likely its set so high that it'll either never be reached, or if it does get reached, he'll be so loaded that he wont care about the site anymore anyway.
It is kind of interesting to see just how high this auction will go though.
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
Perhaps because
Traffic stats according to PC Data, the authority on Internet traffic:
o Ranked #2250 of all sites on the Internet and climbing
o 124,000 unique users per week
o 2,646,000 page views per week
o Users spend an average 46 minutes per week on the site
The cake is a pie
Of course not, it's obviously a regexp. So it'd be fckedcompany.com, ffckedcompany.com, fffckedcompany.com etc.
Current bid: $75,100.00 (reserve not yet met)
He knows what he's doing.... He's shooting for a price, or no dice.
While at this stage I'm assuming the auction is real, I can't help but notice the heart 'gift icon' next to the auction number.
From ebay's explaination page:
"The gift icon highlights items that make especially good gifts..."
According their explaination - a heart represents valentines day?
Happy Valentine's Day!
... ROTFL ...
*** I am the real stylewagon
-Pete
-Pete
Yup. The best in NY can't code his own bulletin board software so he uses Coolboard and then switches to UBB. Wow, two years and no bulletin board backend software!?! If I give him, ten years, do you think he can make me a logo?
Give me a fucking break. If he was so good, he'd make his own bulletin board software. It's not that hard and you don't even have to use Perl! This guy has skills...maybe Pud (or you) can learn from him.
Do you think that if I warez Cold Fusion and read this I can be the second best in NY?!?
Anonymous Coward, go away. We know you're one of Pud's friends from Syracuse. Oh yeah, one more thing Rutgers 24, Syracuse 21.
Rangers Lead the Way!
But I've been curious since I first saw the site: how did he get the domain name past Network Solutions? I thought NS had a list of words you couldn't have in domains, sort of like George Carlin's "seven words you can't say on TV".
Anyone know for sure?
Take the Money and Run.
If your idea is a good one, you can always find a new domain name. And you'll have all that extra money to make your idea worthwhile.
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When you think about it f*ckedcompany.com being bought in a f*cked way and all...
BTW, my theory has always been that all companies are intrinsicly f*cked in some way... every company I have worked at has been a little f*cked...
BlackNova Traders
As of 11:51 EST, Slashdot carves another notch into the stock of its traffic shotgun. HTTP Error 403 403.9 Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected This error can be caused if the Web server is busy and cannot process your request due to heavy traffic. Please try to connect again later. Please contact the Web server's administrator if the problem persists. *smirk*
"World Domination - a fun, family activity"
And the reserve has been met I notice. Interesting way of making a bit of money - Float on the eBay :)
.iMMersE
codegolf.com - smaller *is* better.
Current bid: $500,000 bucks, 59 bids, reserve met. I guess that puts to rest the idea of it being too high to reach?
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not just the domain. The business is tangable and worth bucks in advertising from those stats he posted.
Or, he is serious and stands to take home some cash....
Either way, he wins - we all lose (after all, most of us are stuck in piss-poor jobs working for someone else, right?)
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Don't confuse this kind of censorship with the kind 'we' (that ever nebulous term - are we a collective now or something?) are fighting against.
Censoring one's self can be considered basic tact, or sticking to editorial guidelines. That's fine.
A third party stepping in to censor you without your consent is another matter entirely.
The first is fine. The latter is very much not fine.
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I have to commend Pud aka Philip Kaplan for starting a great website where people could vent about the dot-com hype. But, FuckedCompany.com itself would never last because Pud didn't have any technical know-how.
When the website first started, they used CoolBoard bulletin board software instead of UBB. I suggested that he use UBB or Slash as a better option for web discussion software. He never responded, but after a recent hiatus FuckedCompany.com is now using UBB. I guess Slash was too hard for them to configure. Secondly, FuckedCompany.com had problems with its database in tracking people's picks of fucked companies. I suggested to Pud his forum that he use Linux/Apache/MySQL/PostGres instead of the Microsoft combination. My reasoning was that the open-source software would cost less money. Instead, he deleted my post.
Pud started FuckedCompany.com to help promote his web design house, PKInteractive. IMHO, it's kind of late to be getting into the web design business and their portfolio doesn't exactly have impressive names. Why is he selling FuckedCompany.com now? Probably because he doesn't know how to deal with a recent rash of troll posters in his forum that has been disrupting traffic. If you visit the forums and scroll back a few pages, you'll see that Dennis Rodman himself has visited and shared his opinions on race relations.
What I'm trying to get at it that FuckedCompany.com is a great idea as a counter to the dot-com hype, but Pud has no clue about running a business/website.
Rangers Lead the Way!
It's up to $10 million?!?!? Maybe I should put stupid.fuc.kz up for auction!
Ok, so it's a publicity stunt, but if he wins the auction of his own site won't he legally owe ebay a percentage of the sale to himself?
Did anyone notice the "gift icon" next to the Item Number at the top?
Yes, ladies, and gentleman, this is just a great gift idea for your little hacker at home. No longer will your little script kiddy need to take down misc. web sites in his spare time! No! He'll have his own web site!
As a bonus, he's learn how to curse properly when someone floods his network!
Now someone's actually planning on paying $9,999,901 for this thing
Yup. What the fuck do you think Slashdot.org is? A fucking auction site? Slashdot is a website that relies on bulletin board discussion software. Corporations will buy good software. Period.
I have given Pud credit with coming up with this idea. I have cited numerous examples of how Pud doesn't fully understand the technical aspect of running a business. Now, putting his website on Ebay shows he doesn't know jack shit about business. What's next? Grant Hill putting himself on Ebay? Any legit businessman wouldn't put his business for sale on a system where RIT sophomores can bid $10 million dollars.
To the second AC. What the fuck does the military have to do with this? If you haven't noticed, the domain "ranger.army.net" IS NOT an official US miltary domain. Who said I'm in the military? Fucking idiot.
Rangers Lead the Way!
Right now it's about 10:25 Central, and the price has already risen to $500,000 (reserve met).
Damn, I wish I was this guy...
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... I had the money. Then I'd let it die a painful death.
When I saw the domain name my mind is so warped I read it as fucked company (company as in associates) and thought it might be the who's who of slashdot trolls :)
Now there is an idea for a website!
I'm not sure I understand why people are calling it a publicity stunt. As far as I can tell, items placed for auction on eBay are legally binding; pud has to sell his site to the highest bidder. What makes anyone think otherwise--that he's not in fact selling it?
Anyways, good for him! At least someone is making money off his Web endeavours.
If this is all a pubilicity stunt, I think that he would be stupid not to go ahead and sell it. The bidding is up to $500,000 when I looked a couple of minutes ago.. sheesh.
I know. Unlike most Slashdot posters, I actually browsed the link before posting. Just substitute the same way you would for any other thinly veiled reference to "bad words".
The Web is like Usenet, but
the elephants are untrained.
he is at $500,200. 2.6 million visitors per week I am sure gives good ad revenue, but is it really worth 1/2+ million? Who knows, the person who may purchase it will eventually get sued for copyright infrigement or some such shit.
the other odd thing is the (0) after the bidders login. With something worth so much money I would be rather hesitant to sell to anyone w/o previous buying on EBay (and I worry about a $5.25 SCSI cable + $3.00 S&H that someone ripped me off on)...
- Bill
The article was not "censored". Censorship involves removing content. Additionally, Hemos put the asterisk in of his own accord. So, I can proudly say, "Crawl back into your cave, troll."
For those of you who don't subscribe to FuckedCompanies newsletter, Pud, the proprietor, noted in his weekly newsletter that he was bored so he put the site up for sale. I don't think he's really selling it...just trying to generate traffic.
Karma: Non-existant. Due mostly to the fact that you smell funny and nobody likes you.
The FC Network - http://www.fuckedcompany.com
& item=434391456
Hey,
I was bored this morning so I though I'd put FuckedCompany.com up forsale on ebay. Bidding starts at $1. Send this link to everyone you knowand you'll have good luck and get laid: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
Lets get right to business -- here are some of today's featured fucks-- as usual, many more on the site. http://www.fuckedcompany.com
I love FC...the site cracks me up.
I don't know, if it's such a hot company, he could be taking a great risk by that. What if the bids never got that high? People might think that his site isn't all that.
I bet that he's got a huge reserve, and the deal's going to go down offline. Why would anyone let eBay skim a big chunk off a multi-million dollar sale like that? Especially when lawyers are going to get their chunk, anyway... an auction doesn't exactly constitute much of a legal contract for the terms of sale that he's proposing, IMHO. This is just to drwa some potential investors out of the woodwork.
lf.o
A couple of whacked out guys (that i work with) decided to ride the wave of fuckedcompany.com ... they registered phuckedcompany.com and have just put it up on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co m/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=436332963
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
It appears that someone (perhaps the guy who retracted a $10mil bid for F*ckedCompany because of the language on the site) is going to start his own dot-com deadpool game. Just out of curiosity, I typed in www.dotcomdeadpool.com, and found a Network Solutions under-construction page. He may get the people who are offended by the word "f*ck," but won't get the popularity of F*ckedCompany.
And to those of you who hate the word "f*ck": Kiss my f*cking asterisk.
He's just doing it for fun...everyone should check out fuckedcompany.com ... its a cool site... its the dot-com deadpool.
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Go view the auction, and you will see that the auction was cancelled. I'm guessing that too much publicity was created as a result of links from /. and F*cked Company.
Who in their right mind would pay $20,000+ for a domain like that? I can understand if some company actually used that name and intended on using it for their website, but....
Dude, he's talking about selling the entire site. Did you read the auction description? he said that he will continue with the business. He gives stats and a preview page. He is selling a business, not just a domain-name.
lf.o
Obviously, you didn't tr typing the domain into your browser before you posted taht comment. Try it, you'll find the experience enlightening. (And you'll probably realize why your post will probably be modded down...)
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Not EVERYONE has to compensate for a small penis, you know...
The Cluetrain Manifesto book mentions what sounds like the seed to your idea.... As far as I know, a fully transparent company is still just a concept, at least at the level you are proposing..
A company such as that would be a blast to work for or be a customer of, and the concept would hopefully generate a lot of noise to give you eyeballs to start with and a boost in your particular field. (hell, send me a note when you start looking for designers...)
However, if you try it, please please back it with a strong business plan...("Okay, now that we know how the company will work.. what're we gonna sell?") because it'd be shame for a company based around such a cool ideal to keel over simply because there wasn't a need for the company to exist in the first place..
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Read the WIPO decisions -- all it would take is for said company to offer a "reasonable" price for the domain name, and be refused. Putting the domain name up for auction allows WIPO to assume that the domain owner doesn't have a vested interest in it, other than the money from the sale.
But then, there wouldn't be much incentive, because the content would remain his, and most of the site's value seems to be tied up in its content, not in its name.
Just checked, btw. the current high bidder appears to work for NBC. Interesting...
The Web is like Usenet, but
the elephants are untrained.
2 comments saying (basically) the same thing, the second one, five mins after the first, gets moderated as funny?
What do you want to bet that within the hour Per Wigren's comment will be marked -1 Reduntant...
Ho hum.
~ppppppppö
But what does it look like without censorship?
fickedcompany.com?
fyckedcompany.com?
fsckedcompany.com?
How am I supposed to know when the subject is covered so well by the censorship?
He's a good guy. Good luck!
(ebay is up to over $1.6 million)
What I really find interesting is that a lot of these companies at fuckedcompany have dumb names.
very dumb names.
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That's all I have to say about that.
Send your friends messages of love at fuck-you.org
What better way to learn how to deal with these kinds of things then actually build a site and try to deal with it?
I doubt CT and Hemos were experts when they started slashdot either, but they learned from it. So will pud.
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
Unfortantly he does use NT....
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The value is in this name is not the name, it's the reoccurant traffic it receives. From the eBay link provided in the original quip:
Traffic stats according to PC Data, the authority on Internet traffic:
o Ranked #2250 of all sites on the Internet and climbing
o 124,000 unique users per week
o 2,646,000 page views per week
o Users spend an average 46 minutes per week on the site
F*ckedcompany.com domain is forsale.
The owner says: "I was bored this morning so I though I'd put FuckedCompany.com up for sale on ebay."
Rumors says: "He was drunk this morning and accidently put the company for sale."
Oops!
Company: Fuckedcompany.com
Points: 500
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!
With all this support of deCSS and the like, representing the entire anti-censorship movement, i am curuous as to why the article was censored and posted as "F*cked..." Why are we fighting censorship while continuing to censor at the same time? I think its giving out a mixed message. If we are fighting censorship, lets fight it all! http://silicongod.com
NEWS: cloning, genome, privacy, surveillance, and more!
...can't say FUCKED on a publicly-owned website?
First off, the FuckedCompany.com sale is most likely a publicity stunt at best, but hey I can't blame the guy for wanting to cash in...I know since I already have :-)
With that said, why settle for FuckedCompany.com when FUCKED.COM is available for sale and it's a proven money maker! See ValueNames for pricing details.
at the time of posting... $1,679,098.00
And now, at $10,000,000. The current high bidder is notable for purchasing previous items in multi-million dollar auctions from sellers such as "pcguru99", "moovieland" and "atlascollectibles".
pcguru99 sells things such as: an in-car television.
moovieland sells: a lot of used movies.
atlascollectibles sells: signed playboy pictures and a whole lot of other "hidden" stuff that needs adult verification.
Ah, yes... This guy certainly has the looks of someone who will pay $10 million for a web presence. (Though he actually appears to, get this, pay money for his newsfeed, thus raising his credibility somewhat)
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If a tree falls on an anonymous coward yelling 'first post' in the forest, does anybody hear?
It's now at over $9 million!! Maybe I should have registered a few warped domain names ;)
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zap.....
If this is a joke, I believe I would take the money anyway. Can they force the bidder to pay?
Way to go!
This is no publicity stunt.This is serious Business.
By the way what is the highest bid in ebay history and is this even close.
Stupid sig.
That's why he's selling his website on Ebay. A buyer with any type of technical background would be smart to take FuckedCompany.com and start over with a different technical path. Also, CT and Hemos had a technical background before they started Slashdot. It's not an even comparison here.
Rangers Lead the Way!
F*ckedCompany.com - The Dot-Com Deadpool Item #434391456 Current bid: $9,392,319.00 (reserve met)
Its up to $10 million now. I'll have to think twice about it now. =D
Think of F*ckedcompany.com as a shell pattern. It matches Fuckedcompany.com, Fizzuckedcompany.com, Flackedcompany.com... Are they all for sale?
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XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Will I retire or break 10K?
Better pass on this one.
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Basically, I wasn't on the ball back '95 or '96 when the kid first registered it (heck I couldn't even afford the $100 registration fee back then :)
But I feel pretty silly right now for not doing something this clever myself. Maybe clever isn't the word, but he's at $20,000 right now, right!? Doh Doh. *slaps head*
Eureka!
Rader