Hey guys, I was wanting to ask a question and im sorry if it has already been answered, but how does this website stay up? It was created by Satoshi, meaning that he owned the domain and owned the server that the website was hosted on. How does this website stay up if it is not longer maintained by Satoshi? Do some of the admins have registrar and server access?
Check the forum history
It's surprising how well-documented history can become totally forgotten... Satoshi created the forum on Nov 22, 2009, and was head administrator until almost 2011. Then Sirius was head administrator until 2012, which is when I took over.
Cobra also owns the bitcointalk.org domain name. I consider the forum to be basically owned by or at least dedicated to the Bitcoin community, though; I don't call anyone an owner of the forum.
That wiki article is kind of terrible...