4 Apr 2022 7:59 am
Could be, but I've always thought Kfools was a little smarter than that. Every day that site is down, the value goes down as well. Fewer regulars will feel like returning and adding content to his forum. I would think Kfools would be well aware of this. And, for $75, really? If money is what he wants and he wants out of the forum-biz, then he would be better off just letting it run and then selling it without much notice. Spend $150 to capture maybe $2,000 as opposed to $500-$800, which is about what it should bring at this point.Imgreatagain » 02 Apr 2022, 3:11 pm » wrote: ↑ It seems as though he’s holding the forum hostage. Won’t get it running- but won’t turn it over to someone new
A month from now, not even that much. Where you have an established, competing forum with the same name, that domain name isn't worth much all by itself. If I were .Net, I'd hurry up and try to get the name trademarked (if it can be) while the other site is out-of-biz.
My thought is that Kfools would like to get away from that legacy platform and had plans to migrate it to a different host. He probably sees the problems with maintaining that site and monetizing it and has figured it isn't worth his time in the condition .org is in right now. It takes lots of time and some money to do this correctly - i.e. building a new forum while maintaining the legacy forum and then migrating everyone over there. Perhaps its just one of those unfinished projects, like an old 1976 Honda CB750 that sits year after year unloved in your garage perpetually awaiting restoration.