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.
EMC2 is going though the same experience, we are turning a major corner in the coming days. We are creating a publication that,
in part, will provide information to coins in CC rehabilitation preparing for redevelopment.
Although what you said is true -- that it is not practical to revive EBT, IMO if a coin has a true purpose, not for scamming, and not just for getting to an exchange, but actually for real use as currency it should be saved / redeveloped.