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Grex Coop Item 257: Selling the domain name
Entered by scholar on Tue Dec 1 22:09:21 UTC 2009:

Has anyone considered selling the domain name 'cyberspace.org'?

I entered it into an automated domain appraisal site, and it said that the
domain would be worth  about $40,000.  I'm not sure how realistic that is,
and selling the domain name would suck, but Grex could certainly use the funds
for hosting and to pay people to work on the system, since very few staff
members seem to have enough time to even make a phone call to get the system
rebooted.

It'd certainly open up a lot of possibilities.

11 responses total.

#1 of 11 by richard on Wed Dec 2 00:06:31 2009:

Interestingly enough, www.cyberspace.com is now a search engine news 
site.  Some company has invested quite a bit in the cyberspace name 
there and sells advertising on their site using the name.  They 
*would* probably be willing to pay a nice price for 
the 'cyberspace.org' domain if only to further control 
the 'cyberspace' name on the 'net.

#2 of 11 by krj on Wed Dec 2 00:27:21 2009:

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole $40,000,
and lose his own domain name?"

#3 of 11 by richard on Wed Dec 2 01:06:10 2009:

well there would still be www.grex.org.  Isn't it a bit of a luxury 
for a place this small to have two domain names?  I think if there is 
such value in unloading the cyberspace.org name that the selling of it 
should be considered because this place is completely vulnerable for a 
takeover.  Some parasite outsiders would have little trouble buying 
enough memberships to have the votes to amend the bylaws and take over 
and get the domain by force.  At least by selling it, it might provide 
seed money if this company wants to change its mission and do more 
charitable work or be a foundation.

#4 of 11 by veek on Wed Dec 2 01:16:45 2009:

A better solution imho would be to keep cyberspace.org, put up 
advertising, and put that bozo on .com out of business :) You'd also 
have enough money for computer donation, running grex.org, etc. We 
certainly have the skills required to do such a thing.

#5 of 11 by richard on Wed Dec 2 01:27:01 2009:

A chec, of www.whois.net shows that www.cyberspace.com is actually for 
sale right now, as is www.cyberspace-communications.org.  A check of 
www.cyberspace.org shows that grex still owns the name as it has since 
1993 but its domain registration expires on January 12, 2010.  That 
needs to be renewed post-haste.  Which you of course need a treasurer 
in place to do.

#6 of 11 by veek on Wed Dec 2 01:55:22 2009:

actually you don't need a treasurer to do that. anyone could do it and 
the board could reimburse them. didn't you hear of some Unix guys 
renewing Microsoft's domain name for them.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/06/
microsoft_forgets_to_renew_hotmail/

#7 of 11 by aruba on Fri Jan 1 16:36:36 2010:

(Both of our domain names were renewed on 12/14/2009, through the beginning
of 2011.)

#8 of 11 by mary on Fri Jan 1 17:20:54 2010:

Thanks so much, Mark.

#9 of 11 by tsty on Wed Jan 6 05:07:09 2010:

  
wht mary said.

#10 of 11 by madmike on Tue Mar 16 02:26:13 2010:

cyberspace.org is priceless, in my estimation.

#11 of 11 by tsty on Tue Mar 16 05:13:20 2010:

  
we agree ...

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