They have said that territories will be archived and someone else can come along and revive it if they’d like. I do think most of the early territories will be one and done

POTUS

yeah, the ROI doesn't seem very good for territory owners. But it's still early

needcreations_

replies in territories, recouping sats from territories

I'm also curious what happens to a territory if someone decides to stop paying the monthly fee. Does that territory get claimed by SN? Does it go up for grabs for someone else to purchase? At 10sats/post and 50% rev share, territories need to have 20K posts per month to make up a 100K/month cost, so I suspect a lot of these early territories are going to freeze up once the initial sponsor runs low on sats. Would be really interesting if we had public charts on the performance of territories (I'm sure SN internally can query and get charts of that) but that might help folks see if a territory is underfunded by activity and in need of user donations to keep it rolling (or if the territory sponsor has said that they are willing to consume the loss)