Has anyone else noticed the similarities between Mr. Ceglia and Dan Primack's Twitter avatar?

Oh Ceglia, we hardly knew thee. Yesterday, Betabeat got an email from Streetfax.com, the website at the center of a legal dispute between Mark Zuckerberg and Paul Ceglia, the man suing for half of Facebook, telling us we were the "1st to hear" that the domain was up for sale.

As it turns out, the high-powered lawyers who filed the Facebook suit were also trying to unload no-longer-wanted property yesterday: Mr. Ceglia himself. DLA Piper confirmed their withdrawal from the case in federal court in Buffalo yesterday and the fact that the firm had dropped Mr. Ceglia as a client.

DLA Piper's name lent an imprimatur to allegations that a 2003 contract he had with Mr. Zuckerberg to work on Streetfax.com entitled him to half of "The Facebook." Business Insider's Henry Blodget declared the evidence "breathtaking" and concluded that, "In short, to us at least, the emails don't read 'fake.'"

Mr. Ceglia has not yet turned over original copies of the contract or emails with Zuck to the court and Facebook maintains that it's all a forgery from a "career scam artist."

San Diego-based lawyer Jeffrey Lake, possibly the same Mr. Jeffrey Lake that the San Diego CityBeat called "the F. Lee Bailey of San Diego's medical marijuana drama" has agreed to step in as Ceglia's new counsel.

The Streetfax domain is being hawked as a chance to own "a piece of Internet history – history of a website, brand and possibly the largest court dispute in history!" It's registered to eNOM Inc., a domain name reseller. But whether it's Mr. Ceglia working through a proxy or not, they're going to have to come up with a better sales pitch. There have been exactly zero bids for the $5,000 auction with eight days left to go, and the nostaglia value is depreciating. Fast.

URL shortner sold separately

The upstate New York man who claims to own 80 percent (sorry scratch that, 50 percent) of Facebook has decided to put streetfax.com, the domain at the center of his dispute with Mark Zuckerberg, up for sale.

Paul Ceglia hired Mr. Zuckerberg to work on the site when the latter was still at Harvard. According to Mr. Ceglia, and a fairly high powered law firm, the contract the two signed at the time also gave Mr. Ceglia an ownership stake in "The Facebook." Now Mr. Ceglia, or whoever currently owns this domain, is selling streetfax.com as a must-have for those interested in owning a piece of internet history:

The domain is in the middle of a massive legal fight over ownership to 50% of Facebook, that’s $35 Billion dollars at stake!! This is a piece of Internet history - history of a website, brand and possibly the largest court dispute in history!

This website has been featured in countless Global News and TV reports about the current lawsuit Zuckerburg Vs. Ceglia.

One of the details Facebook, Zuckerburg and Ceglia agree on:

Both sides agree that Ceglia, 37, hired Zuckerberg, then a freshman at Harvard University, to work on Ceglia's StreetFax.com project in April 2003.

The reserve price is $5,000 and so far the domain has received zero bids. In the comments several prospective buyers expressed concern that a site with no traffic or homepage entangled in the middle of giant legal battle might not be the best purchase. Don't these people understand nostalgia? No, ok, well how about SEO?

The smart money would snap up streetfax.com for five large, then turn it into a forum for all of Zuckerberg's haters, Facebook privacy worry warts and general internet lowlife to congregate.