The End of an Era
The popular shock site goatse.cx has had its domain revoked by the Christmas Island Internet Administration. If you want to read the gory legal details, there’s a PDF here. Lament with your fellow goatse fans at this protest forum, and if you feel really strongly, sign this petition.
If you hung around any forum in the last four years where trolling and crapflooding were common, at some point you probably clicked a goatse link and saw the horrific image known as hello.jpg. It inspired such parodies as oralse.cx and analse.cx (both of which are safe to click).
The site still exists without the domain name however. If you really need your goatse fix, I’ll give you the URL, but I’m not going to make it a clickable link, because I don’t want to be responsible for anyone’s seeing this horror for the first time: http://www.hick.org/goat . DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK if you are repulsed by, well, the repulsive.
Goatse.cx: 2000-2004.