I wonder if NP could become a PAC in the URL biz...

[movingconcierge]

Was that enough acronyms for you?

I wonder how many domains are owned by NP members in total - 22,000? There are at least 22,000 since that is the reg'd users and only assuming 1 name per user (yeah right). So what if the average were 5, 10, 20, 50 names per reg'd user? That would be some pretty big clout. What if NP teamed up with DNJ, or others. That would be a respectable selection of those in this speculative industry.

I'm not saying for NP to get arrogant or anything, but how about trying to make things better. It really wouldn't take much more effort than what this forum does already. I mean, there are threads for many of the topics already. So, why not add a PAC (political action committee) thread; let’s through some weight around. Issue boycotts, recommendations (think of the extra revenue streams), notices, responses from OUR vendors like GoDaddy, 1and1, etc, and offer a forum for those vendors to issue replies.

When a simple dollar or a single thread about bad service can make a difference with who a client chooses, it would be nice to have that information consolidated, condensed, and concise. It would also be nice to see a vendor respond with public answers.

...just a thought I had...any other thoughts?

 

[Oblivion.]

I'll be suprised if there have been over 22,000 domains reg'ed through the NP registrar system.

 

[movingconcierge]

Not how many names has NP reg'd, how many names are represented by NP users?

 

[RJ]

Excellent thoughts concierge. There's no doubt that members of this forum own a very significant number of domains and together could make for a unified voice. To say that only 22,000 domains are represented here is just a small fraction of what I believe the real number to be. I personally know several members here who own thousands of names each.

To organize domainers into a group that will be listened to by governments and vendors is one of my purposes of getting the ball rolling with DNOA (www.dnoa.org).

A mission statement of the organization is "To serve as an advocate to ICANN, the U.S. Congress, State Legislatures and all government worldwide to protect the rights and best interests of all domain name owners and safeguard the domain name industry." This could also extend to getting responses and action from vendors or organizing boycotts of unscrupulous companies.

A lot of this could be done through NamePros, but I do believe a professional industry association has better credibility and chance of recognition than an online forum.

RJ

 

[wasistdas]

more than 50k I suppose. Every member has at least 2 domains. One for own purpose and one to sell off.

 

[DJ-Sound]

Not how many names has NP reg'd, how many names are represented by NP users?

oh, well then a huge amount even small timer domainers keep 50ish domains and the big guys have 1000's

 

[SimpleDomaining]

ok i lets calculate
i reg 4 infos and one com

 

[Morgan]

I own about 500-1000 domains so im helping Namepros out

 

[TTHosting]

I'm near a hundred now.. only had 10 a week ago

 

[Sabre]

Excellent thoughts concierge. There's no doubt that members of this forum own a very significant number of domains and together could make for a unified voice. To say that only 22,000 domains are represented here is just a small fraction of what I believe the real number to be. I personally know several members here who own thousands of names each.

To organize domainers into a group that will be listened to by governments and vendors is one of my purposes of getting the ball rolling with DNOA (www.dnoa.org).

A mission statement of the organization is "To serve as an advocate to ICANN, the U.S. Congress, State Legislatures and all government worldwide to protect the rights and best interests of all domain name owners and safeguard the domain name industry." This could also extend to getting responses and action from vendors or organizing boycotts of unscrupulous companies.

A lot of this could be done through NamePros, but I do believe a professional industry association has better credibility and chance of recognition than an online forum.

RJ

The DNOA is definately a step in the right direction.

Hopefully, this can be built on, and used to maximum effect in latter years, perhaps even get a bit of power in the domainning world.

 

[NuPagady]

I'm near a hundred now.. only had 10 a week ago

you're fast

by the way, I have ~100 domains at the moment too.

 

[primacomputer]

I'd bet the top 1% of NP members who each own the most names have a total well in excess of 22k.

I think NP has actually done a lot so far to improve things for members. Many of the major companies have a member here who monitors the discussions and addresses complaints when they come up.

I think the problem of organising it is that it's difficult to get everyone to agree on what should be done. I don't think NP should have an official position on much of anything. It's a forum, and a labour union. But giving people a place to discuss things with vendors and show them the number of people who want something changed is certainly a good idea.

 

[Binfus]

One other potential benefit could be the domainers with small-medium sized portfolios banding together and negotiating directly with relevant commercial entities like PPC payers such as Google and Yahoo/OVT; large portfolio owners with enough traffic volume already are able to do so.

I'd put the total number of domains owned by NP members much higher than 22K or 50K....I'd say at least 200K....thats average of less than 10 names per member.....heck its 10K just between Duke (>6K) and myself (~4K)..

 

[mole]

heck its 10K just between Duke (>6K) and myself (~4K)..

:o

 

[Shorty]

I'd put it at 60k bare minimum. 10 each sounds like an honest average to me, it's how many i've got...

 

[betterdayz4]

Elequa owns over 100,000 on his own. rethink that total

 

[Shorty]

160k then, :lol:

 

[elequa]

I have another suggestion as this is an excellent idea.
Why dont DNF/namepros/domainstate and i can add my arabic domain name forum nameclub.com and open a shared forum to solve these issues that way our voices are heard and unified?

 

[diddie]

another good idea with all those domainers would be to create our own Site Parking program

 

[faisj]

I think I own approx 500+ domains on the moment
( I am sure there are many more members who have 500 + domains )