I am researching the circumstances of and the justification for Darkcoin's change of name to 'Dash'. I have found some of the comments made in this thread interesting. I have also posted on the Dash Bitcoin Forum pages 5094-5097 regarding this and have received some responses.
I would invite anyone who can shed light on this matter to message me privately.
this link is from dashcoin's previous thread.. previous dev last post (feb 8, 2015) page 66, at page 67 some dashcoin community members learned of evan's purchase. it is a shorter read there from page 67 to 80 instead from darkcoin's thread, there are some info you might find interesting there.
start here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=678232.msg10393542#msg10393542