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Goatse.cx Is For Sale

Posted by kdawson on from the dept.-would-be-redundant dept.

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."

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  1. Re:its bad enough by Broken+scope · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sadly goatse is part of the history of the internet.

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  2. Re:its bad enough by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i thought it was all done through firehose now.

    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.

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  3. Unfair by Sam+H · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  4. Jokers appear to have hijacked the bidding by dfoulger · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Re:its bad enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder what that other famous site would cost.

  6. Goatse.cx is everywhere by khendron · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Those Boing Boing links are hilarious.

    I've recently noticed that the Toastmasters (safe link) logo has more than a passing resemblance.

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    1. Re:Goatse.cx is everywhere by matlhDam · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I've recently noticed that the Toastmasters [toastmasters.org] (safe link) logo has more than a passing resemblance.

      There's been more than a few people suggest that Westnet, an ISP here in Perth, could have thought through its new logo a little better, too.
  7. Re:The end is near... by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...AND to get those [Goatse] links deliberately modded +5 Insightful by anyone with mod points : Priceless !

    I wonder if I can get modded up for pointing out the state of the art way to post goatse to slashdot is to put the obfuscated version of the URL with in a comment with a tempting bait like this?

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