Paid $80 for a domain name that's still live but useless, is keeping it a hobby or a mistake?

Back in 2009 I bought a niche forum domain for a local hobby club that fell apart within a year. The site itself is still up, hosted on a free server, no updates since 2011. I paid $80 for the domain renewal back then and now I just pay $12 a year to keep it alive. Part of me likes seeing it frozen in time, a little museum of bad early internet design. The other part says I'm throwing money at something nobody visits. I can't decide if it's worth it, or if I should finally let it expire. Has anyone else kept a dead site running just for the memories? How do you draw the line?

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maryg344d ago

The "little museum of bad early internet design" part really hit me. I saw this article once about how old GeoCities sites are actually studied by historians now, so there's something to be said for keeping things like that around. But $12 a year is a pretty cheap museum ticket, idk. If it brings you a tiny bit of joy when you check it every few months, that's not nothing. I mean, people spend way more than that on coffee in a week and don't think twice. Maybe just set a reminder to look at it once a year on the anniversary of when the club started, and if you skip that, let it go then.