A September 10, 2000 attempt by Kaplan to put the entire site up for sale on eBay attracted joke bids as high as $10 million but no serious buyers.
The site was taken offline for two days in August 2002;[1] Ford Motor Company law firm Howard Phillips & Andersen had threatened litigation against FC's upstream provider HostGator as a means of silencing a discussion of a series of layoffs entitled "Ford, where finding a job is job one.
As a consumer complaint site, FC also faced increasing competition from new entrants, including social networking providers.
Michael Arrington announced on March 31, 2007 that TechCrunch had acquired FuckedCompany.com in an April Fools' Day joke press release.
[6] Starting in August 2007, the site ceased posting new content, and later converted its main page to the simple message:[7] Fuckedcompany is... fucked.R.I.P.