The Notorious Goatse.cx is for sale! $10K reached!

[lpxxfaintxx]

For those who don't know what Goatse.cx is, take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx

The domain is being sold here: http://www.seobidding.com/buy/auction/goatse.cx

And the bidding has reached over $10,000!

 

[labrocca]

Oh awesome...I used to have his pic for my counter-strike spray.

 

[Dan]

The story was dugg, so I'm sure a lot of those are fake bids now.

 

[lpxxfaintxx]

Hrm, yea good point. It's now reached $100K! I doubt someone would pay that much...

 

[lzy]

I will bid for it in an instant if I've got the money. But I always thought it was suspended by the Christmas Island Internet Administration. Hmm.

 

[instance]

Looks like its up to 1 trillion now.

 

[dhscott]

$1000000000000 it is up to I think, $1e+12

 

[Ronald Regging]

"As of April 22, the bidding rose to over a trillion dollars, causing the software used by the auction site to malfunction[1]. This bid as well as several others over a billion are likely fakes. Other bids include $30 million and $150000"

I love the bit about the offers over a billion likely being fake.. Like they honestly believed that a bid of several hundred million would be legit?

 

[Coopey]

Up to $600,250 now.

:o

 

[Sam]

Created: 16 Jan 2007
Expires: 16 Jan 2008

 

[webcom]

This thread is a joke and it shouldn't belong to the Industry News section, where us domainers actually expect serious news.

 

[dhscott]

This thread is a joke and it shouldn't belong to the Industry News section, where us domainers actually expect serious news.

It is serious news, its a very famous domain!

 

[The Stealthy One]

The domain really isn't worth that much at all.

 

[briman1970]

Wikipedia article about Goatse

Don't go to the Internet Archive link unless you want to be disgusted to the point of tossing your cookies. BTW, I think the traffic from the domain is probably worth $150,000 or more to the right people. This is (was?) one of the most infamous sites on the net!

 

[webcom]

It is serious news, its a very famous domain!

How "famous" was this domain? Did it receive hundreds of thousands of visitors every month to justify the current "bid" of 1 million?

Alexa is extremely low and a link popularity check reveals no incoming links in Google, only in Yahoo - and that number is not high either.

The way I see it, a gross site died 3 years ago, the domain expired sometime after, someone picked it up recently and is trying to profit and the whole wikipedia article thing with statements such as "It's expected to reach a final bid of $5,000,000" seems nothing more than a joke.

 

[DylanButler]

THis site was definitely infamous, it speaks volumes for a whole generation!

Lol

 

[lpxxfaintxx]

How "famous" was this domain? Did it receive hundreds of thousands of visitors every month to justify the current "bid" of 1 million?

Alexa is extremely low and a link popularity check reveals no incoming links in Google, only in Yahoo - and that number is not high either.

The way I see it, a gross site died 3 years ago, the domain expired sometime after, someone picked it up recently and is trying to profit and the whole wikipedia article thing with statements such as "It's expected to reach a final bid of $5,000,000" seems nothing more than a joke.

Actually, it did receive hundreds of thousands of visitors every month. It was banned from google and yahoo, though.

 

[Mike]

as with many other things which are not worth the attention. this is a prime example.

 

[Ronald Regging]

Obviously it's not going to sell for anywhere near what has been bid, but it's like any other vanity domain that people spend thousands of dollars for. It's sort of like owning a piece of Internet history. Sure it may not seem to have much value on the surface, but I guarantee someone would probably spend a nice chunk of money to acquire it.

 

[zachary0611]

i came across that site a while back i have seen where some people have it tatooed on them