So guy starts snopes.com, then divorces wife, she gets half the company and then sells her half to the hosting provider.
Guy attempts to terminate contract with hosting provider, hosting provider now has somehow hijacked the domain and refused access to any of the backend/source/etc.
Guy is now setting up a fucking gofundme to raise 500k (what a curiously arbitrary number) which he somehow has decided is what it will cost to 'hire lawyers to get the site back'.
Literally watching in stunned disbelief as people donate, its well past 50k last I looked... haha sorry, just looked again and its currently at $376,167 of $500k.
Pretty sure 9 of every 10 cents donated was from people watching Trumptards call Snopes.com "an alt-left site".