Since I’m going huge with all this domain ‘collecting’, it’s about time I got acquainted with the professionals in this space. First stop was to find the premier domain name forum. A quick search on Google revealed
And a quick look at DomainForums.com was all I needed to find out that it was only at first place because it’s name exactly matched what I was googling for. It membership numbers were abysmal compared to the other two. DN Forum has 47,390 members and NamePros 76,029. Normally I pick the forum with the biggest membership ( I try to not sign up to too many forums because it ends up consuming too much of my time - you forum-holics know what I’m talking about!). In this instance, I chose DNForum because I have heard more mentions of it recently than NamePros.
What a mistake that was!!! I was a bit taken back when I was presented with a membership payment page. Lucky (or so I thought) rego was free and the membership was only for extra features, like posting on special forums and having a bigger inbox- I can live without that for the time being. If it’s any good, I don’t mind paying later because there might be a good marketplace here where I can make some money by flipping my sites to the members. I took the effort to register but upon trying to post my first post in the Newbies Introduction section, I was greeted with a restricted access page - WTF??? I need to pay to introduce myself in the NEWBIES section!! For Gods sake! It’s no wonder that NamePros has a bigger membership base.
Now I’m a proud member of NamePros and have already learnt a great deal on domaining and have added a few super resourceful sites to my bookmarks
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