Adrian Chen/gawker.com wrote:Own a Piece of Disgusting Internet History With Your Very Own Goatse Email Address
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The Goatse relaunch is work of an Australian I.T. consultant whom we'll "Jonathan." (He'd prefer not to have his real name associated with Goatse on Google for the rest of his life.) Jonathan says he bought the Goatse.cx domain in 2008 for the impressive sum of "around 8,000 euros" ($10,200) from a Canadian man on a late-night whim. Goatse.cx had been empty since the government of the Christmas Islands, which controls the .cx top-level domain, got wind of the infamous photo under their purview and took the original site offline in 2004.
"To be honest I sort of regretted it, after buying it," Jonathan said. "I bought this at 12 o'clock at night. Shortly after I bought it i wrote it off as a loss. It's like buying a painting."
Now Jonathan is hoping to recoup at least some of his loss through the email project. He's still working on a price structure for Goatse Email, but says it won't be more than $5 a year to register a vanity address with one of the internet's most notorious domains. You'll be able to plug the address into your existing Gmail account, and Jonathan promises that it will be good at least the next 10 years.
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...spelunk here at your own risk...