If the dev can be gotten ahold of and will turn over the domain ebt-coin.com to the group I have a friend with a hosting company that can set up a site for the relaunch.
do you really need the old domain? Just create a new one. perhaps with .org
Could, they're cheap enough, but still, if you're keeping up with EBT then there would be 2 sites for people who've never heard of bitcoin talk to get confused by. Plus whoever currently owns ebt-coin.com, it won't expire until 2016-01-27
Personally, I don't think saving the coin as it exists is possible. We'd need to create a new coin code/wallet and there are too many of them out there already. Then there's the whole branding issue and EBT has already put a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths.
Talking about community takeover, look at quarkbar. They're having very slow growth after the community takeover because of the original dev's scam. They're doing a great job with it, but it's difficult.
Personally I'm just done with EBT and sticking with bitquark as my alt of choice that's not one of the big 3's.