Goatse.cx

Goatse.cx (pronounced "goat see," "goats," "goatsex," "goat say/seh", or "goat see dot cx", often truncated to goatse, often referenced by one of its current URLs) is one of the most infamous Internet shock sites and well-known Internet memes. Its front page contains a sexually explicit picture, hello.jpg, featuring a man wearing a gold ring on his left hand (and nothing else) manually stretching his anus and rectum to a diameter roughly equal to the width of his hand. Below his gaping anus, the man's dangling penis and testicles are visible. The site is commonly linked to by Internet trolls in order to shock unsuspecting users with the image.

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As of January 14, 2004, the domain goatse.cx is no longer online. However, many mirrors of the site are still available and the image itself has been posted at many other websites. The most common mirror was goat.cx; however, goat.cx was no longer online as of February 22, 2005. As of February 27 of that year, the domain goat.cx, like goatse.cx, had been suspended by the Christmas Island Internet Administration, however the domain as of April 2005 appeared to be back online, showing only the message "be right back." In May 2005, there was an image on the site showing a pumpkin with some hands around it as if it was stretching its anus. Christmas Island Technology Corp has registered goats.cx as of May 24, 2002 with obviously nonexistent name servers, presumably in an attempt to prevent another mirror of the original goatse.cx. In July 2005, goats.cx displayed the text "SIRS! WE HAVE A PROBLEM! ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO GOATS.CX!".

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The three mirrors that most closely resemble the original are currently at http://goatse.rubmyballs.net/, http://goatse.ragingfist.net/ and http://www.pr0ny.com/, all of which are entirely complete. Three other similar but incomplete mirrors are http://goatse.ca/, http://goatse.freespaces.com/ and http://www.notgoatse.com/, although none have the Giver, Contrib or Feedback sections. The second of the three has links to four other shock sites — Tubgirl, Harlequin Fetus, Lemonparty, and Loopback — whilst the latter links go to the website http://goat.cx/.

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The Internet Archive has the original site preserved as it was before it was shut down. http://web.archive.org/web/20010309130834/goatse.cx/ Please be aware that all of these sites contain graphic images.

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