This is the first time I've heard of this information, and I thought Sirius was the one who bought the domain name.
First topics of the forum created by the admin account (for testing, topic 1, 2) and Satoshi Nakamoto (topic 4). Read them in the staff forum:
https://bitcointalk.org/first_topics/The topic 3 was deleted because it contains information about Satoshi Nakamoto.
so admin account was run by Satoshi?
From the post of theymos, Satoshi Nakamoto created the forum and it means Satoshi Nakamoto run the admin account but you always can wonder what is the truth.
In simple words to keep both bitcoin and bitcointalk independent of each other.
Simply put after Satoshi three names took over different domains Sirius, Cobra and theymos.
As of 2020 theymos have full control of bitcointalk.org and if I’m not wrong bitcoin.org is still in control of Cobra.
Theymos announced the
domain name update and explained why theymos did it.
Satoshi created both bitcoin.org and this forum, which was originally at
bitcoin.org/smf. Later, the forum got its own domain name, but due to this history, bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org have traditionally been linked, and for quite some time Cøbra and I have together managed the domain names. However, Cøbra has never had much involvement in bitcointalk.org's operation, and I haven't involved myself in bitcoin.org for a couple of years, so the linkage between the two no longer really made made any sense. Therefore, we decided to separate the domains: I no longer have any access to the bitcoin.org domain name, and Cøbra no longer has any access to the bitcointalk.org domain name. The two sites should be viewed as totally separate, which
in practice they have been for years.
There will be no changes whatsoever on bitcointalk.org due to this, and I'd assume that the same will be true of bitcoin.org. The
bitcoin.org open-source project has been advancing steadily, and I hope and expect that it will continue to do so thanks to the efforts of its contributors.
Thanks to Cøbra for handling much of bitcointalk.org's domain-name-related work in the past.