Originally Posted by dinasrt
Julian is an awesome guy for starting this Forum, but does he care about it anymore? I ask this in all sincerity/respect, and at the risk of being excommunicated from here,
. I don't have a clue how Forum ownership works. How much is it worth, can he sell it? Just curious. All we really want is the gallery fixed, eh?
Honestly, I doubt he would give the forum ownership away. He makes some money off of it from the ad supported webpages you see, as well as from sponsor and super sponsors that pay a per annum fee. He might be inclined to "sell" it if the right offer were made, but I don't know what the cost might look like without digging a lot into the uniques, impressions, and ad clicks on the website on a monthly basis. Work I wish I had time to do, because then we might be able to make an offer to purchase .org. Another issue would be the server hosting. I don't think he hosts the servers for .org, but am not sure.
EDIT: I just did a quick search. Julian is hosting via GoDaddy.com and the contract expires on 03/19/2011. Onto looking for more information.
2nd EDIT: I found some other less pertinent information to .org, but kinda interesting stuff on its owner. No need to put that on here though, since it isn't .org related.