I've seen the Crigler interview - there is obviously some internal politics going on that we don't know the details of. However at some point Adam asked why the guy doesn't just give up the domain and he kind of dodges the question. Also talked about external investors, some businessman he tried to give the domain to etc, and over here he mentions that he wants to set up a fund.

Looks like he doesn't want to let go of the domain because there's money to be made.