Forum or Forums?

[Ringr]

Hey guys,

If you had to pick between a domain name that was *forum.com or *forums.com - which would you choose?

They seem to be equally popular. I can think of many very-popular message boards with the "forum" ending, and I can think of equally as many "forums" ending ones.

Which one would you pick and why?

Just curious,
Thanks;
-Andy M.

 

[unknowngiver]

forums.com - because u can use it for more then 1 forum discusion :p

 

[Ringr]

Those are my thoughts exactly, unknowngiver.

I have always went for *forums.com. The weird thing is, is that of the *forums.com domains that I own, the *forum.com is taken (not by me, but by others). So it's kind of weird - I always liked the plural version better, but there are so many *forum.com singular ones registered, that I felt like I just had to ask the question here on NamePros to see what other web developers thought.

Feel free to share your opinions everyone.

 

[unknowngiver]

well mind giving us a example?

I think they r probably taken by pplz who want to talk abt SPECIFIC forum
eg: if u only wana talk abt phpbb forum u can get phpbbforum.com :p
instead of phpbbforums.com

well i have a similar situataion...
i wanted madcode.com
but its taken
BUT
madcodes.com is available and i m afraid that if i buy that...there will be typos tht will lead pplz to madcode.com :p

 

[StudioWorks]

Hey,

Well if I were to choose i would go with forums

- SW

 

[kbossons]

Forums, definitely

 

[jon]

I would have to agree. Forums.

 

[rcristel]

I'm gonna have to go with "...forum.com" because from what I've seen (in the automotive industry) more people search for "... forum" than "... forums"

 

[AsclepiusZ]

i think it really depends on the word its going with. where one word might be best with 'forum', another mgiht be better with 'forums'.

 

[BoxFresh]

In my case though depends on the first word.

I own nintendogsforum.com

It wouldnt really be the same if it was nintendogsforums.com i dont think it works as well as the first word ends in s.

My opinion

 

[Veolus]

I personally like forum better :D but forums is also good :tu:

 

[webworksfirst]

:hi:
i think it is better to use forum
forums is used if you will search online forums :hehe:

 

[MichaelV.]

i prefer forums... you could have many "types" instead of limiting yourself to one

 

[webgear]

I prefer forums too but forum is better keyword so you choose

 

[Castlemelody]

Hello I think it should be forum. What is the plural of the word forum? I believe it is fora?

Take care!

 

[seeker]

i think it really depends on the word its going with. where one word might be best with 'forum', another mgiht be better with 'forums'.

exactly.
it really depends on the subject

 

[jiggin]

I would be curious as to which would go over well with the Search Engines...i guess both would work ok, but if someone was appraising the domain, adding a character would be a "hit" against you rather than a plus sometimes...

 

[seeker]

when people search for a specific forum, they actually type 'forums'.
so even though they are looking for a car forum, they seacrh for 'car forums'.

as for search engines, I dont believe it matters.

 

[Ringr]

Thanks guys. It was great to hear what you all thought.
[If a mod reads this: ] maybe this could be turned into a poll or something as well?

-Andy

 

[deadserious]

I asked this same thing a couple years ago http://namepros.com/showthread.php?t=921 :hehe:

It looks like the responses are about the same two years later. If I had to choose I think I would go for forum.