Namepros.com Down 2nd Day in a Row

Vaunted domain name forum NamePros.com is now down for the second day in a row. Namepros.com is a fast moving forum and chat room for domainers and online developers. Information about the fate of this site is unavailable. While hacks and outages do occur for any site, the lack of maintenance notification is cause for concern.

A hacking attempt cannot be dismissed as a possibility. Many domain name professionals wonder if the site may have closed unexpectedly. Also unclear is the legal status of many active domain name deals and service agreements via that portal. NamePros.com was not in service all Labor Day and members expecting it to be back up today were greeted with the now-familiar error message or server timeout.

DomainState.com have changed the template and …

I was one of the 3 bidders who bid against each other to acquire the domain forum, DomainState.com a few months ago and I lost the auction to a well known businessman from the domain industry. I visited the forum a few days ago and there was no change with the same template etc… But today I checked it again and they have changed the template of the domain forum and it seemed to me like they have also let the search engines such as Google to index the forum posts and threads.

Previous owners would like the domain forum to be private and they didn’t allow the search engines to crawl the posts and threads at the forum. There was only one link indexed at Google previously. But today , there are 166 links being indexed (visit this (domainstate.com forum indexed ) link to see it) and according to my forum experience, over next few days, there would be more and more indexed posts and threads in Google.

DomainState.com domain forum being sold to Trellian (Above.com)

A few hours ago, the auction for DomainState.com domain forum was over and it was sold to the Trellian (Above.com) and I do believe that it would be a great acquisition for the Trellian because they could promote their domain related services such as KeywordDiscovery, Above.com etc… more effectively to the domainers.

I participated in the auction but it seemed the Trellian company was quite determined to acquire the domain forum.

I hope that the forum would grow even further and domainers would still get benefits from the shared knowledge of the current owners.

Domainstate.com is most likely going for $46,000

Many people earlier valuated DomainState.com domain forum for around xxxx and some disgracefully valued it in xxx range. But I didn’t think its value in xxxx range but rather like low to mid xx,xxx due to its potential if I could imply a business model.

Therefore I offer xx,xxx (more than $20,000 offer of Paul Shaul) for the domainstate.com domain forum and thanks to the owners of the forum, I involved in a three way auction which was transparent (we submit offers to let know others as well as the admin of domainstate forum). I am not going to mention the names here. There was $1,000 increment each time. I now gave up after my offer of $45,000 was outbid by a higher offer from the CEO from a big company and he offered $46,000. I thought it was not justifiable for me to go more than $46,000.

Unless there is another offer from the other bidder, it would be sold at $46,000.

Dnforum promotion, offering free platinum membership for all domainstate members

I noticed today that Dnforum had been offering free platinum membership for all domainstate members for one week. I don’t know how the current owners of domainstate will respond to this but the domainstate members would be benefiting free platinum membership at dnforum.

It was stated that “welcoming all current and past Domainstate members to Dnforum.com”.

If someone signs up with Domainstate today and then registers with dnforum, will he or she be eligible? I am not sure. May be possible.

Is there any possiblity that Dnforum would be offering free platinum membership to Nampros members in near future as well?

DomainState.com going to one of the current owner?

I got an email stating that there had been an offer of $20,000 from one of the current owners to own the forum DomainState.com outright. Obviously they would prefer for the forum to be run by one of the current owners rather than someone else as it had been the baby of three of them.

I had initial interest to acquire the forum if around $10,000 but now I decided not to go over $20,000. They are cancelling the auction which was the original plan. I also would like the forum to be run by one of the previous owners as I found the forum so rich of the domain knowledge and they had been giving straight opinions and support for the members.

I hope the forum will thrive on.

Top , Great “Forum” domain sales

Domains which end with “forum” or “forums” are good particularly for development and there have been many domain sales around $10,000.

Some of them are:

Forums.com  sold for nearly $400,000

Forums.de  sold for over $35,000

WebHostingForum.com   sold over $21,000

CasinoForum.com  sold over $18,000

Forums.org   sold nearly $15,000

Forum.gr   sold nearly $12,000

WeddingForum.co.uk   sold over $10,000

NewsForum.com   sold $10,000

Forums.cn   sold for $10,000

AustraliaForum.com   sold for $10,000

PregnancyForum.com   sold for $8,000

DomainForums.com   sold at $6,500

I hope that they were bought by end users so that they have been developed.