IMPORTANT: BASEjumper.com Management Announcement
Hi everyone, This is an important announcement regarding the management of BASEjumper.com.
As you know BASEjumper.com, together with Dropzone.com and Rockclimbing.com, was purchased by NameMedia in May 2008 and was operated by them ever since. Unfortunately, as the economy worsened over the past few months it became financially unfeasible for NameMedia to continue to operate these sites, which brought them to a difficult choice - either find a suitable buyer fast or shut the sites down. The first option wasn't really possible in these times and the second, while obviously not desirable became more and more likely.
After much deliberation Daniel and I (D4DR Media) has agreed to resume the operational responsibilities for the sites. We've run these sites on a pretty tight budget before and we can do so again. We trust this arrangement will ensure the longevity of these online communities.
We will resume all day-to-day management and operational responsibilities of BASEjumper.com, while NameMedia will handle ad sales and marketing. NameMedia will remain the overall owner and we’ll retain a minority interest in the sites as a longer-term incentive for our efforts.
One very unfortunate side-effect of all of this is that NameMedia was unable to retain a full-time salaried publisher, so Jay Young (j_ung) was let go from his position by NameMedia on Friday. This was a pure business decision and in no way a reflection on Jay's performance. I think we can all agree that he did a terrific job and added a lot of value to the site during his time as publisher, and we will miss him in that role. Thank you for what you did here Jay.
Practically not much will change on BASEjumper.com though. I've spoken with Tom and he'll continue on in his current role. We will continue to take a similar position to what we had in the past, which is to remain largely “hands-off” from BASEjumper.com.
Go ahead, do your thing.
