HighScore.com: Domain sale left gaming community stranded (1.Viewing)

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HighScore.com: Domain sale left gaming community stranded​

Registered in 1996, HighScore.com appears to be in the hands of a California-based startup with a focus on cloud gaming; its product will allow gamers to take their favorite games from most platforms inside the browser. Google tried that with Stadia a few years ago but its model failed to attract traction and it closed down.

It would have been a great acquisition if it weren’t for the fact that the domain hosted an active community of gamers for years. The old web site at HighScore.com allowed game aficionados to gamify the process of sharing their high scores with the entire community.

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Would have been nice to offer the database back to the members and allow them to keep it running on a different domain.