Is Goatse.cx Being Sold To Defend Against MySpace?

The price of the infamous Goatse.cx auction is up to a staggering $159,600 — a pecuniary sum so large that, even in c-notes, it could scarcely be crammed up the Goatse.cx guy's gaping, bleeding anus. But questions remain: why would anyone sell such a lucrative Internet property?

A tipster to Boing Boing wrote in with the inside scoop:

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?

A lot of horrible things have come out of Goatse.cx's horrible bottom, of which the MySpace worm is probably the least insidious.

Goatse.cx domain is for sale [Boing Boing]