Hoping to become the new Young Composers Owner

Hi everyone!

My name was Chopin in the YC forum. I didn't realize most of you guys transferred here for the time being.

I am hoping the owner of YC will read this, and may respond. Obviously YC needs tons of work. There is really no easy way to increase the activity of YC without a dedicated, musically inclined, and great internet marketer and webmaster. Therefore, I would like to purchase the domain of youngcomposers.com, but of course this is depending on if Mr. Richer and his willingness to sell.

One big reason why I want ownership, is because I have many ideas on my mind on how to revive the site. These are the things that I will do to the young composers website if I am able to purchase it:

1. Increase traffic to the site. I may be able to get 200 unique visitors to the site in a few months. One thing to note though. YC may be under a Google penalty. If YC is not under a Google penalty, I may even be able to drive more traffic to the site in a few months.

2. Get the youngcomposers domain name listed in big directories that otherwise take years and luck to get in. I can guarantee listings. These directories are ultra important to Google rankings.

3. Implement a database driven system so that a composer can sign up, have his own webpage, and post his own music in links. I am doing research as of now, to see which system would be best.

4. Obviously upgrade the forum to something similar to this.

5. Create some kind of contest, for incentives to participate. The contest will be whoever has the highest rating composition. The highest rating composition will be recorded by my recording studio for free. I can record midi files to sound more realistic. I will then post the newly recorded mp3 on the site. I may do this weekly or monthly, depending on participation.

6. Put the site on a virtual dedicated. My server would have 200 gb of bandwidth and 20 gb of space.

I can fulfill all of these promises. As I can't guarantee success, the probability of success I feel would be higher if this site had a prominent and knowledgeable owner. I already run a successful website as it is, which I started from scratch. My site currently gets about 400 unique visitors a day. I may even be able to channel some of the visitors from my site to YC, and that perhaps may be a head start. I hope that Mr. Richer will highly consider selling the domain, and I hope I can get all of your support. I thank Mike for bringing to my attention that the owner was even able to be contacted; I thought for sure youngcomposers was a complete loss of ownership.

If Mr. Richer decides he would rather not sell the domain to me, it won't be the end of the world. I still am going to go through with my idea, on another domain that I purchased. The only difference is, it would not be on youngcomposers.com. I really hate to compete with Mike and YC, but I honestly wanted to start a site like this on my own, even before I knew an owner of this site existed. One of two things could happen. Mike and the rest of you guys can wait until I launch my site for the transfer, or Mike can develop YC still, and I will go off into my own direction. If Mike wants to build on YC, I absolutely will not steal you guys away. You are all a team. It would be unfortunate if I am forced to go in my own direction, but once I get an idea in my head, it basically does not go away until I succeed or fail. It would be sad to start this type of site without you guys, but it would be even sadder if you all broke away because of my decision. Stick together!

Thanks for reading, and if you are reading this Mr. Richer, let me know your decision...

Sincerely,

Mike