Crypto exchange Coinbase rolled out Base, an Ethereum L2 offering a “secure, low-cost, developer-friendly way for anyone, anywhere, to build decentralized apps.”
Announced today, Base.org aims at making onchain the next online and onboard more than 1 billion crypto users users into the cryptoeconomy. Base is not a token; Base.org will continue to use Ethereum (ETH) as the native gas token.
Base on Base.org
Registered in 1996, the domain name Base.org was at some point advertised as not for sale, being in the control of a computer scientist guy who also operated Datta.net to match his last name.
The original registrant of the domain name Base.org, Aveek Datta, displayed the following lander at Base.org in 2009:
By 2013, the domain Base.org was forwarding to aveek.datta.net.
Mr. Aveek Datta is a graduate of the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University in 1997, with a major in Computer Science. It comes as no surprise that he had the resources at the time to register such premium or otherwise valuable domain names.
A reverse WHOIS shows that Mr. Datta operated ML.org, Datta.net, and Overman.net at the time. It appears that ML.org was sold and now we have proof that Base.org was eventually sold as well. It’s currently with MarkMonitor as the registrar.
Moral of the story: Never say never regarding a domain’s availability to future buyers. It’s only a matter of numbers involved, as the acquisition of the domain name Base.org by Coinbase proves.
