[nally]

Original domain owner here.

I certainly hummed and hawed about attaching clauses to the sale, but feared they would make the transfer overly complex.

It was better for me to err on the side of being zen about it. A big driver was the feeling I got from the microryza team.

They're the real deal and they are going to be able to do very well by this name.

I told them during negotiations that what I'm most interested in is their succeeding so that they don't need to enter into the domain name speculation business, because they would be very very sad.

I will mention, though, as part of this story, that I was once approached by someone who wanted to use the domain name for a sex toys store. And while that's reasonably noble, I was comparing at the time to my own aspirations for the name in the realm of pure science.