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."

Comments

Re:Site seems to be down :-(

[MichaelSmith]

I bet you have been waiting years for a chance to post those links.

Re:its bad enough

[Broken scope]

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.

What's it worth?

[Linker3000]

I can't see a large opening for sites with names like this.

Goatse is for sissies

[bersl2]

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.

Re:goatse on the cheap

[masterzora]

open goatse variants

Did you really have to say "open goatse"? You're only making this worse!

Oh for the love of...

[The Bungi]

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...

Re:its bad enough

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Advertising

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

They could always advertise Preparation H.

Re:Advertising

[jorgevillalobos]

They could always advertise Preparation H.

I have to agree, Preparation H feels good on the whole.

Re:Goatse.cx is everywhere

[damncrackmonkey]

wow, you guys are really stretching it