I agree. (original domain owner).

If ranking for that term is important to the experiment.com business model, I'm sure they'll be able to do it.

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.

Yeah. (original domain owner here).

I really struggled on this point, but was coached by someone I trust that legal gymnastics were not in anyone's best interest.

What I really want is for experiment.com to become wildly successful, so that I can take part in some science projects.

I agree.

(I'm the original owner that sold the domain.)

I'm sorry for not having won the web for the google search on 'experiment', but I actually believe that this team is going to succeed where I have not.

I believe they are on the right track, and that they can grow into a variety of spaces/tools/utilities/education/information systems etc., especially if, as they have done so far, they "stay true" and focus on the bits that make for high quality investigations.