Slashdot has been sold again. Dice Holdings, the company behind the Dice.com career site, announced today that it had purchased Slashdot, as well as the SourceForge and FreeCode websites, from Geeknet for $20 million in cash. According to a statement from Geeknet—the company formerly known as SourceForge, VA Software, and VA Linux—the sale price was approximately equal to what the three sites have brought in over the last year.

In 1999, Slashdot founder Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda sold the site to Andover.net for $1.5 million in cash and $7 million in stock. Andover merged with VA Linux less than a year later. In 2005, Om Malik estimated the value of Slashdot at $150 million. But since then, revenue for the sites has remained relatively flat, while the ThinkGeek retail site has become an increasingly larger piece of the company's business as the company continues to operate at a loss. Malda left Slashdot for good in August of 2011, and now is Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large for the Washington Post's WaPo Labs.

Geeknet Chairman Ken Langone said in the statement that with the shedding of Slashdot and the rest of what originally made up SourceForge Inc., "we will now focus our full attention on growing ThinkGeek."