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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.
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...
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 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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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
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Cast a Cold Eye
On Life, on Death
Horseman, pass by
--W.B. Yeats' gravestone
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"?
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...
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?
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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Feminism is the wild notion that women are human beings.
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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Infuriate left and right
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
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
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
Current bid: $75,100.00 (reserve not yet met)
He knows what he's doing.... He's shooting for a price, or no dice.
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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My Journal
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
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.
- Jeff A. Campbell
- VelociNews (http://www.velocinews.com)
- Jeff
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?
Easy. He bypassed Network Solutions (and most other registrars) and went straight to the (open) source. From the Network Solutions WHOIS ("Nature, it seems, is not without a sense of irony..."):
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. I'm all out of bubblegum." MSE USC APX AIA CSI CASp
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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Stephen C. VanDahm
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
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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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
Not EVERYONE has to compensate for a small penis, you know...
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
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!
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?
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..."
Because the headlines are syndicated round hundreds of websites, many of whom do not want swearing on their site. You will notice that in the body, which is not syndicated, there is no censorship.
Or maybe I made that up and it's all a big conspiracy
Its not censhorship...its decency and respectable journalism. Every respectable newspaper/magazine in the US does it. I believe everyone can make out what F*cked is...
Sig it.