This is all really awesome! Am wondering if there will be a way to buy in later to get a www.city/name.coworking.com domain? That would be cool and would band us together in a really excellent, unified way.
On Feb 15, 6:45 pm, Steven Heath <she...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last point I have been pondering.... who is this group that wanted to come> > in and make this buy? Why did they want it and why now? What was the > > urgency? > > 'We' had 3 days to decide if we could make an offer and buy this name. Alex > emailed about a dozen people which resulted in enough interest to 1, fund a > good hunk of the price and 2, allow a public post to secure the rest of the > monies. > > No one, and I mean no one, expected this money to be agreed and 70% > collected in 36 hours! > > The initial off list discussions resulted in messages about 'legal entity' > and 'value for money' and 'what the heck, better than some sleaze ball > having it'. > > Once it was decided to go after this name we (really Alex) had little time > to lose to get the pledges, put the offer in and then secure funds. > > I think the reason it worked is that we believe in the 'cause' and each > could afford a share of the funds to secure the domain name. Alex had the > idea, bunch of us agreed with him, agreed to support him in the approach and > here we are! > > -- > Steven Heath > Director, Foxbane Consulting > Founder, AltSpace > Cell: +64 21 706-067www.foxbane.co.nz > Level 22 > Plimmer Towers > 2 Gilmer Terrace > Wellington > > AltSpace.co.nz - Shared office space in Wellington for home based workers, > freelancers, or nimble companies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
