[akarlsten]

What a shame that you're taking something beloved and nostalgic and turning it into yet another rent-seeking crypto project.

https://neocities.org/ has been around for years, is the same exact concept and doesn't come with any crypto-related baggage.

[elbigbad]

I feel the same way. The hairpin of emotions from excitement when I saw something promising like acquiring the expiring geocities trademark from the USPTO to yet another shit crypto project was disheartening. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Perhaps something can do something of value with it when the new trademark expires.

[throwaway_isms]

>Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Perhaps something can do something of value with it when the new trademark expires.

Please expand upon this, give me your idea of victory and value.

The plan was to turn the IP over to community governance, so people like you who seem to care could have a voice in governing how the property is used. On one hand it seems like you might want a voice in how the IP is used, yet you also seem to think that giving community governance over the GeoCities IP is "another shit crypto project." It is far easier just to privately own and operate the property as a centralized entity & remove the decentralized governance component.

Has there been another crypto project that resurrected abandoned IP and turned it over to community governance? I'd love to review those other projects and see where they went wrong.

[Kye]

I see no mention of an intention or plan, very different things, to hand it over in the original comment.

[kristofferR]

To say that decentralized IPFS hosting and free custom domains (unlike on neocities where custom domains is a paid feature) is a negative is absurd.

It's problematic that all Neocities cites are controlled by a commercial entity, that's exactly what killed Geocities. Decentralized hosting isn't "crypto-related baggage".

[throwawaycities]

Rent seeking? Please enlighten me where you get rent seeking?