Goatse.cx domain is for sale
Scott Beale says, "The notorious domain goatse.cx is being sold through an online auction. The minimum bid is $4000." Link (thanks, also, Stuart and many others). Thumbnail: a Getty Images stock photo used in a number of surprising places, including a recent TD Ameritrade report. If... only... I could place... what this reminds me of... (Thanks, El Verde) Reader comments: Dan says,
I saw this and had a good laugh to myself - I have some, I guess you could say 'insider information' about this. It's speculation, but it makes sense.Goatse.cx was put up and maintained by a guy named Mike Joyce. He also runs obstinate.org.
Mike Joyce lived in San Diego and worked for a small ad agency. Hes good friends with Sammy, the guy who wrote the 'sammy is my hero' myspace worm. Sammy also used to live in San Diego, but he moved to LA to start his own web development company. Mike Joyce quit his sysadmin position and moved up to LA to work with sammy. That opened up his position and I was hired there.
In the last few months, as I'm certain you guys are aware, Sammy was getting prosecuted by the company that owns myspace for their downtime, and all the damage he caused. It was something like 300,000 dollars in advertising revenue lost for the day and half they were down (forgive me, I cant find the post with the actual figure).
I wonder if Mike is selling goatse.cx to help Sammy pay for legal fees?
btw, here is a link to the most recent goatse statistics.
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