question If there was a magazine...

[DanBingham]

for domainers, would you buy it?

 

[DnEbook]

"Every new edition comes with a free .Xyz domain"

 

[ben pedri]

Domainers are so cheap that if the magazine was a buck ,they would search an hour for a
.99 cent coupon

 

[Ricardo M]

Would be nice actually during a holiday or in the plane. Just something different than a screen. I would buy it imo

 

[Doron Vermaat]

I can't believe this actually existed. It's like hair products for the bold

 

[Kate]

There was Modern domainer years ago and it was free (at least for some people) but apparently it quietly vanished. I used to receive hardcopies by snail mail back in the day.

 

[biggie]

There was Modern domainer years ago and it was free (at least for some people) but apparently it quietly vanished. I used to receive hardcopies by snail mail back in the day.

i have quite a few issues of that magazine

in fact, i read thru them quite often


there were a lot of "predictions" back then (circa 2007), where some have materialized and many others did not.

the viewpoints and insights from "seo to history of sex.com" were all included

but if someone came out with one now, it would have to be free to flip the pages.


imo...

 

[hxp]

No one would buy it.

But, you could give it away for free, and fund it with the income from ads.

 

[Asfas1000]

I would probably buy it. Depends on what value it provides and how much it costs. I would certainly try it.

 

[Doron Vermaat]

This thread will bring traffic to ModernDomainer.com

Ha, such a nice looking For-Sale landing page!

 

[EZPZYO]

While you guys are debating I've already published my magazine, 1 billion subscribers and counting!

 

[maya-zir]

Yeh cause swiping bacteria-ridden cancer-causing glass is so much cleaner. Let me tell you something that glass lovers will never understand nor enjoy: seeing an old coffee stain on the pages of your favorite book or magazine, remembering how mildly annoying it was but now a fond part of the experience. How about the edges chewed by your first puppy, or a torn page by your kids as they were learning the yes's and no's..

I like real paper books, I began to read from 8 years old. I mean began read books in amount, not just read.
I read at least 1 book (250-300 pages) by day.
I read all our home biblioteca and we had a huge biblioteca at home.
I also visited public bibliotecs and too much time was just stealling books from there and paying fire for "lost" books.
I remember that old-paper smell of old books pages and also remember watermelon like smell of new child magazine with a lot of images I was recieving each month.
I rememeber a huge joy of discover a new bunch of old books...
I read adventure books, historic books, science fiction and just fiction books, travel books, world-wide folklore books and mithology, child books, dictionaries, enciclopedies of all kinds, books with museums pictures and statues, I read bigraphies of famous-person-series... etc...
My sister never was interested in any book, so all those books were mine, and just mine... All for me...
After we moved I just keeped my favorite children books, adventures and scient fiction books and my first school books and of couse my collection of pre-columbian mexican culture books, total around 200 books, they are very old now but smell fantastic.. They smell my childhood.. That time when all was so magic and seamed to be possible in the future.. Travels.., I was dreaming travelling arund the world..

But now I move from one place to another one, and books weight so much and it is impossible to take all of them with me.
So, I have around 90k downloaded books on my sd card of my mobile.
I dont need move tons of books from one place to another, I dont need light to read them at night or in transport.
I have tons of books in my pocket.

But I keep at home my old 200 books from my childhood...

PS: My samsung is used just by me, so all bacteries living on its glass are mine, not from somebody else By the way, I clean it a few times during the day... so dont think it has so much of them...

 

[DNWon]

Domainers are so cheap that if the magazine was a buck ,they would search an hour for a .99 cent coupon

And then after perusing it for an hour, ask the newstand guy for a "Grace Delete" refund!

 

[Lyle]

I would flip through it at the kiosk and put it back.

 

[HotKey]

Interesting question. Gotta say, I still get my local/world news the old fashioned way, delivered to my door every morning and read with a cup of coffee. I simply can't have it any other way. Now, to have a monthly domaining news magazine, that's a bit different. Reason being, is since domaining is based on domains, which are based on IP addresses on the Interent, which are digital formats, seems to me would be best absorbed via the Web. Plus it would take away from the little time I already have for namePros.

Not to say I would certainly enjoy a few copies of honest-to-goodness paper domaining magazines for my library, that's for sure. Nothing beats flipping through pages of interest in your hands.

Petty cool that a couple of our members have something like that.

 

[SirDrago]

Domainers are so cheap that if the magazine was a buck ,they would search an hour for a
.99 cent coupon

HAHA!
+1

 

[fatter]

I used to get that and enjoyed reading it, To be honest I think it is a great idea, there is almost no outreach for non domainers, once copies flood the countryside, they would start showing up at doctors and dentists offices, so instead of reading a 30 year old" womans day " could be interesting reading. You could charge domainers 10 bucks a want add(for sale) etc
Joe T

 

[CJ6]

Nope. Chances are, that would be the cost of a renewal.

 

[CJ6]

There was Modern domainer years ago and it was free (at least for some people) but apparently it quietly vanished. I used to receive hardcopies by snail mail back in the day.

Can you imagine looking back at some issues to see what domains sold for back then?

 

[Buffu93]

If I could find new valuable information I would buy it.

 

[Kuffy]

http://www.dnjournal.com/

 

[biggie]

Petty cool that a couple of our members have something like that.

+1

http://web.archive.org/web/20081220...?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemid=68

maybe you can find a few tidbits


imo...

 

[biggie]

you still read real paper magazines or books??!

yep, i do!

the peace of mind and the time to reflect, while absorbing the content from printed letters on paper -

and who doesn't miss the joy of licking your finger..... just before you turn to the next page



imo...

 

[atinc]

It all depends on the quality of the content.

I think we already have the purest content at namePros forums.

 

[DanBingham]

As domains are a web - based matter, a printed magazine doesn't make really sense in the long run.
It would be like a online - magazine about how you can avoid using the web.

Don't agree but an interesting comment!

 

[johname]

The up side of a printed magazine is if you tell the elite members of the domain community you will feature them on the cover of the magazine, they might actually sit down with you and do an interview.

But really a printed magazine would need a different approach than what can be had at NP and Twitter...etc to be successful. Like more intimate and letting guard down interviews, and wider thinking. And since the average daily forum going member would rather have four or five extra hand reg domains in their port than purchase a magazine subscription, the targeted population would have to be more skewed to the type of people that tend to go to domain conferences.

But a magazine telling domainers how to search for NNNNN,coms and what coupon codes to use and how to email end users. will get dusted by NP. Better to have an online news letter.