Happened to us as well.? When we signed up at $110 and was informed the transfer would be in about 7 days.? We completed our end.? Went slowly from 56 down to 52 today.? This afternoon it is now up to 177 in line.? On my billing it says it will renew at $110/year.? Will see if that gets erased, but I kept a copy of the billing and screen capture.? At $220 a year we will just build our own forum software.
Don't know if it is true but on Yahoo it is said the current owners of groups.io were the previous owners of egroups which sold out to yahoo to form yahoogroups.? That was a good sale because egroups sold to yahoo for $432 Million.? I suspect if groups.io gets pumped up over 24 months from an unknown site to a yahoo replacement , they can sell for in the range of $125-150 Million.
A solution to identity issues is to purchase your own domain name and point it to what ever forum you wish.? since you own the domain name and if you use correct domain settings they only thing the visitors will see is the domain name.? That is what we did.?
I expect there will be competitors in this market popping up in the next 12 months.
