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| {{Infobox Website | |||
| | name = Goatse.cx | |||
| | image = http://www.goatse.cx/hello.jpg | |||
| | logo = | |||
| | url = http://www.goatse.cx/ | |||
| | commercial = no | |||
| | type = ] | |||
| | language = English | |||
| | registration = none | |||
| | owner = | |||
| | author = | |||
| | launch date = 1999 | |||
| | current status = active | |||
| | revenue = | |||
| | slogan = | |||
| | alexa = | |||
| }} | |||
| '''Goatse.cx''' (pronounced either {{unicode|"/goʊt/si: dɒt si: ɛks" or "goʊt sɛks"}}) was an ] ]. Its front page featured a picture, '''''hello.jpg''''', showing a naked man stretching his ] to a large and disproportionate size, with the inside of his ] clearly visible. Below his gaping anus, his dangling, semi-flaccid ] and ] were visible, as well as a ring on the ] of his left hand. | |||
| The image <tt>hello.jpg</tt> originates from a set of forty images called gap.zip.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://goatse.cz/goatse.htm#Identity_of_the_.22Goatse_man.22 |title=The Goatse Story, section: The "Goatse-man" |accessdate=2008-07-01 |work= |publisher= |date= }}</ref> In those images, the man used ]s and ]s to stretch his anus. The images were located by '']'' and are also available from the "Contrib" section of the goatse.cx website under the filename <tt>gap.zip</tt>. <tt>hello.jpg</tt> is the third file in the archive, <tt>gap3.jpg</tt>. | |||
| ==Site suspension== | |||
| On ], ], the ] ''goatse.cx'' was suspended by ] for ]<ref></ref> violations in response to a complaint, but many ]s of the site are still available,<ref name="Goatse Mirror (viewer discretion advised)">{{cite web | title=Goatse Mirror (viewer discretion advised) | accessdate = 2007-05-08 | url=http://goatse.cz/ }}</ref> and the image is displayed on many websites. | |||
| In January 2007, Christmas Island Internet Administration put the domain goatse.cx back into the pool of available domains. The domain was subsequently registered January 16th through domain registrar Variomedia<ref></ref> and the current registrant tried to auction off the right to use the domain.<ref> {{Fr icon}}</ref> | |||
| The goatse.cx domain name was reported sold at an auction on ] ] to an unknown bidder. According to seobidding.com, the first auction ended with fake bids so the auction was reactivated.<ref name="Goatse.cx domain">{{cite web | title=Goatse.cx Now For Sale! | accessdate = 2007-05-08 | url=http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/04/goatsecx_now_fo.html}}</ref> This was again won by fake bidders, so Seobidding.com announced that the website would be sold for $500,000 and that legal action would be pursued against the fake bidders.<ref name="Goatse.cx domain sold">{{cite web | title=Seobidding.com Auction | accessdate = 2007-05-18 | url=http://www.seobidding.com/buy/auction/goatse.cx}}</ref> On 2007-11-25 the site was for sale on seobidding; "goatse.cx asking: $50200 minimum." | |||
| Control of the domain was passed to the secondary market, and has since been taken by ] who are trying to sell the domain name for 10,000 ].<ref>"." ''Sedo GMBh''</ref> | |||
| ==Re-launch== | |||
| On ], the site was relaunched featuring a picture of ] and a legal disclaimer. The file name and alt text remained the same as before. | |||
| ==Website== | |||
| Goatse.cx had four sections, two of which had images intended to shock the viewer: | |||
| *The ''"Receiver"'' page, titled "Eh", showing the aforementioned <tt>hello.jpg</tt>. Hello.jpg has the <tt>alt</tt> attribute "stinger". Since 2000,<ref name="GoatseReceiverinTwoThousand">"," ''Goatse.cx'' 2000</ref> before the picture is the text in black, "The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are ] or find this photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!" <ref>"," ''Goatse.cx'' 2004</ref> Newer versions of the site had links to <nowiki>http://www.dolphinsex.org/</nowiki> and <nowiki>http://www.urinalpoop.org/</nowiki>, while older versions linked to <nowiki>http://www.biganal.com/</nowiki> <ref name="GoatseReceiverinTwoThousand"/> (all of which are now occupied by ]). The text below hello.jpg reads, "IMPORTANT NOTE: There are many merchandising attempts for goatse.cx around the web-- none of them are real, none of them are official. Do not buy this gimmick merchandise. The official goatse.cx merchandise is coming soon!" The oldest versions had a counter tracking the number of visits. <ref>"," ''Goatse.cx'' 1999</ref> | |||
| * The ''"Giver"'' page, titled "Woah", shows a picture (<tt>giver.jpg</tt>) of a man reclining in an orange convertible (later versions show him on a yacht or speedboat of some kind, with ocean or river waves in the background). He is depicted with an over-sized ] which reaches up to his chest, faked using ] techniques. The website layout, bearing a man stretching his anus as "The Receiver" and a man with an oversized penis as "The Giver" contains an ] ]: that the receiver is stretching his anus so that the giver can insert his oversized penis into it. | |||
| *The ''"Feedback"'' section, titled "Got mail?", exhibits emails that were sent to the site. | |||
| *The ''"Contrib"'' section showcasing visitor contributions to the site. Contrib has additional variations of <tt>hello.jpg</tt> and <tt>giver.jpg</tt>, as well as other images and files. The title of this page is "Contributed Work". | |||
| ** <tt>bush.jpg</tt> is a picture of ] ], calling someone on a ] in his office, with <tt>hello.jpg</tt> displayed on a ] ] on his desk. | |||
| ** <tt>goatse-wwii.jpg</tt> is a picture of a large snowball, with "goatse.cx" written on the side, chasing ], ], and ]. | |||
| ** <tt>giver2.jpg</tt> is a picture of the Goatse giver holding his over-sized penis. | |||
| ** <tt>magiceye.jpg</tt> is a ] picture. The initial image, a legitimate autostereogram of a helix, changes after about 16 seconds to that of a lower resolution, 256 color version of <tt>hello.jpg</tt>. It attempts to fool viewers by exploiting the fact that, although the server sends a ] type stating the filename is a ] image, the image is in fact an animated ]. | |||
| ** <tt>warning.jpg</tt> is a warning sign picture telling people not to go to goatse.cx | |||
| ** <tt>goatsex.swf</tt> is a ] Movie, set to the hook from "]" by ]. The movie shows a large dildo being inserted into the anus of the man posing in <tt>hello.jpg</tt>. The background is from another gap.zip picture, gap8.jpg. The photograph in this movie was taken at a different angle than <tt>hello.jpg</tt>, showing the man in the image from the side as opposed to the back. | |||
| ** <tt>Goatman.mp3</tt> is an ] Music file. It takes up 518 KB. | |||
| ** <tt>Foxy_goatse.mp3</tt> is another ] music file, a ]-inspired parody of the ] song ]. It takes up 1061 KB. | |||
| ** <tt>goatsecx-winamp.zip</tt> is a ] file containing a ] skin, depicting hello.jpg. It takes up 313 KB. | |||
| ** <tt>hello.mpg</tt> is a movie, first showing the text "HI" on a black background, followed by shots of gap.zip pictures. At the end of the movie, the following text appears next to a picture of a teenage boy:<br> <nowiki>"http://www.goatse.cx</nowiki> <br> The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are ] or find this ] offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!" | |||
| ==Geographic location== | |||
| The site used the ] country code, the ] of the Australian territory of ]. The actual server of Goatse.cx was not located on Christmas Island, but in the ] and was owned by Hick.org, a website about computer programming and ]. The Hick.org domain was registered by Matt Miller in ], ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=hick&tld=org |title=Whois.net Lookup for Hick.org |accessdate = 2006-10-25}}</ref> Both Goatse.cx and Hick.org originated from the same IP address; the server was located in ], ], metro-region. Goat.cx, formerly a mirror of Goatse.cx, was located in the ], ], metro-region, while current mirror Goatse.cz seems to be located in ], ]. | |||
| ==Goatse in popular culture== | |||
| {{Trivia|date=May 2008}} | |||
| Because many frequent Internet users have been tricked into viewing the site at one time or another, it has become something of an ]. As such, <tt>hello.jpg</tt> and the other images on the site are common subjects of ] and ].<ref></ref> | |||
| ," '']''</ref>]] | |||
| * The first documented GOATSE ] in the United States was successfully acquired, as referenced at Uberzine.com<ref></ref> | |||
| *Following ] in August 2004, a photograph purporting to show "the hands of God" in the cloud formations in the aftermath of the disaster circulated via email. The image was eventually proven to be a ]ped Goatse parody.<ref>"," '']''</ref> | |||
| *In June 2007, a parody of the ] submitted by "Sean Stayte" appeared on the BBC News website<ref>," '']''</ref><ref name="CollegeHumorBBCGoatse"/> under the alternative Olympic Logo entries and was broadcast on their BBC News 24 channel. Two hands were pulling the 0 from 2012 apart. The image was later shown as part of a gallery of viewers logos on ] and ], and was subsequently removed from the website. The editor of the BBC News website acknowledged the mistake in his blog, saying his team "simply didn’t spot it".<ref>"," '']''</ref> | |||
| *Goatse also appears in the popular browser based game ''Hobowars'', where in the game rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock - Goatse is the games 'all powerful' move guaranteeing a win for the 'bald man' | |||
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