The Beginning

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The .party TLD is not that old, it was generally available after February 2015. I don’t have any information on the time prior 2019. After that the domain was rented by a US person who parked the domain. He wanted to sell the domain, and as you can see, he was able to sell it. The seller set a price at $73500. Well, I made an offer that was far lower than the expected price. And on the 22nd of February 2024 I received this E-mail out of the blue:

While being happy at first to have this awesome domain I was then shocked to pay the amount of money for a domain. The Members of the Orga-talk.de Community, a german Board and Discord Community for LAN-Party hosters in Germany, Austria and Swiss made a lot of fun about that at first, but on the other hand pushed me to take the opportunity to create a project with the new domain.

Start of the Discord Server and Website

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On the 1st of March of 2024 the Discord Server LAN.party was created. The first invitation was sent out to Orga-Talk while the rest would get the invitation after this website went live.

Start of the Website

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While taking much longer than expected the first website went online on the 20th of April 2024 with a list of Eventlistings, a Discord Server and a possibility to rent @lan.party E-Mail Adresses or lan.party subdomains.

To be continued…

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Well and what will happen in the future? We don’t know but I’m excited to see what will happen.