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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