delfinom: first of all, don’t take that as a personal attack or an attempt to depreciate the KiCad community. While it may be harsh, I mean that as a critique that is meant to point to an important problem.
Unfortunately, there is that repeating pattern, which is worth addressing. This is not the first time such a situation happens and the story is always the same. And not only in community projects: the same mistakes are notoriously made in private life. That also happened to me, the effect of which is: I drive a car that is in half owned by a dead person and can’t be sold, new plates can’t be acquired, insurance companies are unhappy and so on.
Acquisition of kicad.org might have happened in 2020, but I am not saying you didn’t tried to remedy the situation. I am saying that such a situation shouldn’t happen in the first place. Not losing the domain, but depending on a domain completely owned by a third party, that can pull out their support at any time. In a wider perspective, the repeating pattern is: a bunch of people want to coöperate, do something together, each of them donate something, but all of them avoid any formalities, signing any agreements, clarifying obligations and rights. That’s the dumpster fire I am referring to: the domain incident is just an outcome. An outcome that does happen over and over again.