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Goatse.cx Is For Sale
fm6 writes "The domain goatse.cx is being auctioned. Bidding, at the time of posting, has reached $15K after 109 bids (with 6 days to go). Some of you will recall that this site used to be linked in a lot of Slashdot articles, despite having only a few pages. Boing Boing, with their usual creativity, has managed to depict Goatse's most commonly linked photo while still remaining within the bounds of good taste."
You could put google adds on it but I shudder to think what it would advertise. Probably make a lot of money, though.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Like it or not, it's internets history. It's especially relevant to /. for the reason you stated (trolling).
Who the hell is paying over 30 million dollars for a stupid domain name??!
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Sadly goatse is part of the history of the internet.
You mad
Unfortunately, it appears the the goatse.cx site is down. Fortunately, there's a mirror available at goatse.ch and goatse.cz.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Clearly, seeing as he doesn't even know the difference between moderator and, *cough*, editor.
How we know is more important than what we know.
i thought it was all done through firehose now. people rate the articles and they get submitted when the rating is high enough. i thought the editors were all replaced a long time ago?
Why UNIX?
No. If it was done that way there would be 6000 articles in the queue like on digg and it would be impossible to get anything decent posted.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Anyone else finds it pretty unfair that the registrar took the domain back from its owner, then allows someone else to buy it for hundreds of dollars? Pretty close to stealing if you ask me.
God, root, what is difference ?
Sadly goatse is part of the history of the internet.
You'll be surprised how many people, making millions on the Internet, have no clue what it is. The people familiar in details with all the shock sites are a certain subculture, and certainly doesn't make up the history of the Internet.
Last I looked the bidding was up over $40 million. Worse, the pattern of the bids suggested that the bidders who are bidding can't possibly be serious. Bidder 20 was a head at 30m, then bid 40m without a counter bid. Bidder 19 had previously done something similar.
Davis http://davis.foulger.net
What, you think this is Kuro5hin? No, there's still people who are paid to read submissions and decide what best "represents Slashdot".. and yeah, they never read the site themselves, so they have no idea what is on Slashdot.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I wonder what that other famous site would cost.
i was surfing about.com's list of religious symbols awhile back and found out, much to my shock and amusement, that the goatse.cx guy is an ancient celtic god
(link is pretty safe for work)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
That would be true if high schools didn't have computer labs. I know many who don't know the name, but it will be a cold day in hell before they will every be able to remove that particular image from their brain.
You mad
whats this, a nerd auction site? nothing like presenting your values in e notation to put off the average joe
I just checked with my registrar, and while the major goatse addresses (com, org, net, and biz) are all taken, there are open goatse variants, including goatse.us.com and goatse.eu.com. Get 'em while they're hot.
Davis http://davis.foulger.net
I can't see a large opening for sites with names like this.
AT&ROFLMAO
Is that the entrance to one of the series of tubes?
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Boingboing sent us all a Valentine's Day* card. Better late than never, right?
*You all do see it, don't you?
What?
Awww, it's awright, I bwoughted your butt-medicine for you! Here, you take a liddel sip and then you go sleepy-byes!
Ah! A rich geek's dream cum true!
Goatse was a culturally significant internet meme and the domain was suspended (revoked) because some kook at the registrar found the content tasteless. There's plenty of content I find tasteless online, Goatse was nowhere near as offensive to me as the GWB presidency yet I'm not about to start pressuring ICANN to withdraw the domains registered by pro-bush news sites.
Dot cx (now CIIA) set a dangerous precedent in revoking the goatse domain, content regulation via DNS is nothing more than an abuse of power. cx domains are worthless, the registry has established it will pull domains if they don't like the content. Avoid.
Tubgirl is so much better than Goatse.
And by "better", I mean "more thoroughly disgusting". The latter makes me laugh; the former turns my stomach.
it's bad enough when someone does a first post to goatse.cx, why the heck is this making news? internet shock sites should not be posted on popular forums, it's stupid, why do we get a news article about shock sites
Methinks thou doth protest too much. That's really your ass in the picture, isn't it?
i always thought the /. community of moderators were a little more mature.
That's a joke, right?
It's just Gates and Ellison in a bidding war.
Its fun bidding there, I've outclass everyone.. I wonder do I still need to buy if I won the bid :P
-javaboy
But they are too easy to be found.
For example, you could probably turn most of the stories on the front page of Slashdot into goatse.cx jokes if you wanted. Wal-Mart begins massive push for HD-DVD...Microsoft finds home for barcode...and of course, the hundred million mile pipe organ. All are open to goatse.cx jokes.
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
Current bid amount: $5.02402e+11
That's a ridiculous price even for such a well-respected domain name like this.
So much for that deal with Satan specifying he could take me the day a post with a goatse link on Slashdot was modded +5...
Oh! they're up to $502 billion.
You don't sound like you're too up on your internets history, friend.
As I understand it, back in the early days of the internet, the kind of enthusiasts who make up today's subculture were a significant proportion of the userbase. Just by being there, they were a target market, and helped the whole thing to grow. Just because AOL came along and reduced them to a subculture doesn't mean they aren't part of the internet's history.
And besides, who cares about the internet's ability to concentrate even more wealth into even fewer hands? I can guarantee that in 300 years, the history teachers won't be telling their classes about how the internet was really profitable and made a select few very rich. They'll tell of how it connected the world and got us all communicating at an unprecedented level (assuming they even mention it at all).
Sure, the signal-to-noise ratio sucks, and half the time all we're communicating is a picture of a guy stretching his ass with his hands, but at least that's more interesting than some dotcom's record quarterly report.
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
Anyhow, there's a good moral lesson here. The
Besides, it's not as if there didn't exist plenty of sick sites out there. I don't like those, but who am I to judge? As long as it's nothing criminal, let it be...
Minimal offer $502402000050 There dies my dream.
"You'll be surprised how many people, making millions on the Internet, have no clue what it is.
Check out this set of pictures (or here) of people finding out exactly what goatse.cx is, while some nice person photographs the expression on their face.
Following a few links, the auction site itself is http://www.seobidding.com/buy/bids_history/goatse. cx (SFW).
According to it, the current bid at this time is "$1e+12".
Probably not a real bid, but if it is, that's a hole lot of money...
I wonder when Goatse.cz, the classic site's replacement will be sold, and for how much!
P.S. Don't click the link; it's a complete mirror of the original Goatse.
This message printed on 100% post-consumer recycled electrons.
Those Boing Boing links are hilarious.
I've recently noticed that the Toastmasters (safe link) logo has more than a passing resemblance.
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
Clearly, friend, you've failed in your attempts to stretch your sphincter as wide as the goatse.cx gentleman and are lashing out at us because of it.
On one hand, it should be obvious that his link directs to some kind of shock image. On the other hand, he just posted a Tubgirl picture to Slashdot and got modded interesting. Indeed.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
$5.02402e+11 ought to be enough for anybody. It's $1e+12 now. Why do they even allow bids that big? It can't be serious.
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And the circle of life continues to spin, occasionally wobbling on its axis thanks to the weighty presence of dumb.
You'll be surprised how many people, making millions on the Internet, have no clue what it is.
The people "making millions on the Internet" right now tend to be pornographers, spammers, scammers, and botnet owners. They probably don't know anything about Vint Cerf, ARPAnet, the IETF, or BBN either...
0 1 - just my two bits
Will that be the final bid?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
As for the auction, I hope they choke on it.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
The "article" goes to
The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are under the age of 18 or find this photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!
(image of goatse.cx man)
That sure is an article, and not a gaping goatse.cx man's bum. I did not find it a very interesting read, unfortunately. In fact, I don't even think Richard Dawkins wrote that. I mean, it's a picture of a gaping asshole, not an article. It's kind of hard to read or write one of those.
Living in this house for the rest of your life on Earth. After you die, well you know...
Yes, and we would notice the difference, right? ... right?
If I were a campaign adviser in the upcoming US federal elections, buying goatse.cx would be perfect.
TV AD:
Voting for candidate A is bad.
He'll raise taxes.
Ruin the economy.
And, he doesn't like children.
Basically, he's a asshole.
(cut to the infamous picture).
On election day, don't vote for A.
Vote for a candidate that cares. Vote for B.
Brought to you buy: http://goatse.cx/
Good luck. How exactly are they going to get someone to pay $1,000,000,000,000?
Excuse me while I claw my eyes out. Again. *shudder*
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Now the true significance of the BSD demon mascot is finally, terrifyingly revealed! His reign shall be merciless, and pointy! There shall be much wailing and frantic pressing of "Back" buttons, but it shall avail them naught, for even should they close one window will two more appear, and more, and more, until their screens shall be covered in it, such that all the lab may see. And they will laugh, or call campus security, or file a lawsuit. Yea, these are dark times.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
One of the things I liked about goatse.cx is the clever wordplay... pronounce "goatse cx" and it sounds like "goat sex". Yet, it most references to the site, even the discussion on this thread, it's just referred to as "goatse". People don't generally shorten "del.icio.us" to "icio", because there is a realization that the domain name as a whole has special significance, yet the brilliant and subtle humor of goatse.cx is lost on so many Slashdotters. And with the domain up for sale, soon that comic genius will be lost to the world as well -- a sad day in Internet history. Goodbye goatse.cx guy, you opened up your orifice and our hearts, and made this world a little better place... for posting troll links anyway.
If you click the 'Place Bid' button without logging in to the site you are instructed:
"Please login to your accunt first."
Worst. Signature. Ever.
Theo, I herd u liek mudkips. If not, please make yourself an hero.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Since the subject is offensive shock sites - have you seen these pictures of volcanic diarrhea or severed limbs? Disgusting...
Meat Spin, I find, gets people to freak out a lot faster than goatse.cx, lemonparty, or tubgirl: www.meatspin.com (Extremely not safe for work)
What's your meat spin count?
Ok, I admit that I never spent any time perusing goatse, but I notice that the wikipedia article doesn't match what I read in slashdot threads. I remember a thread where some explainded that the "guy" at goatse was a hermaphrodite and that people were too shocked to realize that they were looking up a vagina, not up some deformed anus... But the wikipedia article say's that it's a photoshopped anus. Someone here must have the expertise to answer this important historical question!
Someone instantly calling another person an idiot doesn't have much room to bitch about others not engaging in legitimate discussion.
PS. Asshole.
ah...goatse, 4chan, what next?
All we're missing is a fark reference. (yes I've been on a fark roll lately)
Nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained -Tom Baker, Doctor Who
Wow, this is the second time I've seen Tubgirl/Goatse links modded up to five. I think hell is getting chilly ;P
Horns are really just a broken halo.
Right mod : +5, Catch-22
And I'm sure you do, Mr. 867045.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
from now on you can explain your grandchildren that there was a time when the internet did not have many ads, websites were made only of HTML and tubgirl was not mainstream.
Or perhaps http://www.bottleguy.com/ ? There is nothing quite like making coworkers fear links from you.
Man blir trött av att gå och göra ingenting.
Y'see, my contract said his claim became null and void if such a post ever got so modded. Now, as long as it's still +5 at midnight, he also has to throw in a great boxed set of stake knives.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
Does the BoingBoing picture remind anyone else of a promotional picture for Ubuntu? Or is it just me?
For once, I wouldn't blame anyone for not RTFAing.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
WTFC.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Putting off registering an account as long as possible is probably just good sense.
Xenu loves you!
Where will they be storing the cash they get from this transaction?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
That's the first time I've ever seen a goatse link modded +5 informative!
Somerhing is smelly here. But I can't quite put my finger on it
This is a good weekend topic.. think back to the old days... when Goatse.cx or tubgirl would get modded down in a heartbeat. But TODAY ONLY it's ON TOPIC!!!! Happens about once a year or so. Go with it!
GoldenPalace.com must be considering purchasing it. They love publicity stunts and this is bound to get a lot of attention.
Goatse always made me laugh, and inspired me to create this. http://freeduiconsultations.com/kirbyse.gif (no visable anus)
Goatse was a small, small part of internet but its hard to deny the fact that in its own twisted way, it helped shaped the modern internet. Goatse was a hazing ground for early internet users, people UNDERSTOOD that the internet was wild, untamed, uncontrolled territory. We would look away in anger and disgust, but then we'd come back, look at it again and laugh. Compare that to modern day extreme shock websites and you see oversized pictures of guns being pointed at the camera and violent acts 'too bloody for mainstream TV'. People refuse to accept the fact that the internet is a window to an outside world called 'reality.' You see this all the time with blogs. People rant on them, professing their loyalty to a political party/religious group/video game company and then act shocked when they get targeted by opposition groups.
THIS kind of social change is historical evidence. And in 20/50/100 years in the future, they'll be writing about how much politically correct the internet became compared to when websites like Goatse were around.
in rochester ny!
What's goatse?
If you think that's bad, check out the levitra logo!
Libertas in infinitum
Unfortunately you don't know of the picture Ewing had sent out - man who shoved his head up his rear.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.