Is dnf dead?

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Just visited the forum today, since I don't remember exactly. In the new posts I found many spam threads. Is that forum dead already?

 

[Armageddon]

Nope..is alive

 

[JB Lions]

Nope..is alive

4 posts yesterday, pretty dead. Just noticed one of them being yours.

I thought it would have a chance (slight at that) if it sold to and/or ran by somebody totally unrelated to previous owner. It didn't, think they were here defending him.

 

[BaileyUK]

Has a funny old History does DNF, Like many back in the days, It seems to have gone from a very good early participant in the whole Global domain industry, then a paid membership to finally a literally just money making banner site. I thought it had died a few years back - Mind you somebody said that same thing to/about me in town the other day :0

 

[Kuffy]

I was an active member, but dropped out when it became a paid forum.I haven't visited it for a few years now. I don't even remember the nick I used.

 

[SpareDomains]

DNF always seemed slow to me even when it was alive. Combined with countless posts of how NamePros is the rookie forum and DNF is superior. How did that work out? Now those members that always posted that trash are out of the business or here cause their superior forum evaporated.

 

[Cristi Marin]

LOL...I even forgot that DNF still "exists"...
But how knows, probably some day under a new management and branding restore
efforts it will raise again...time will tell. I guess, for now is just water under the bridge.

 

[tetrapak]

DNF used to be the place to be if you took domaining seriously. I registered there in 2006, paid over $200 for Exclusive membership. It was basically the Adam Dicker type of scam, you pay a lot but all you get is useless information from him and a badge in the forum. At least the badge helped making deals, as other parties took you more seriously. Too bad for the forum, but I remember Adam took no constructive criticism from forum members, that was a big mistake. Namepros could go the same way if these toptop kind of trolls are tolerated.

 

[Hemanttilotia]

@KINGOF.TOP

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

DNF used to be the place to be if you took domaining seriously. I registered there in 2006, paid over $200 for Exclusive membership. It was basically the Adam Dicker type of scam, you pay a lot but all you get is useless information from him and a badge in the forum. At least the badge helped making deals, as other parties took you more seriously. Too bad for the forum, but I remember Adam took no constructive criticism from forum members, that was a big mistake. Namepros could go the same way if these toptop kind of trolls are tolerated.

@KINGOF.TOP

blablablablabbla

It's easy to accuse others as "troll".
Someone is not a "troll" just because he writes what he thinks.
Or becasue of the style / color / size of the font he is using.
Or because he is an expert in what he do.
Or becasue he has domains which are outstanding.

I recommend to read my posts again to realize that they all make sense.

Good luck anywayyy

 

[wwwweb]

DNF was bought a few months back, domainers are a tight knit community, namepros feeds this need.

What is the point of DNF if you have no user input.

You need people to make a forum.

 

[JB Lions]

First, should have/had an owner with 0 connection to previous owner. Clean start, lots of content already there.

Then, prime the pump.

Owner should be active. New mods should be active. Regulars should be active. When suggestions/problems come up, handle them with the quickness. I couldn't navigate the site back when it was falling apart because some banner used to block the nav bar, for months nothing was done. There was a poll about some new update/design, a lot of people didn't like it. Some issues with payments from that football pool didn't help either. Later got somebody from Ireland that was actually doing good things, but too late. This is when new gtlds were taking off, site should have been active as hell. Seemed like the original owner kind of lost interest in the site.

Try to get one/many of the "big domainers" to post there regularly. Newbies love that stuff.

Get sites like DNJournal to update on a normal basis like they do here.

Hire a domain lawyer to give free advice. That's something that will bring people back to the site. People will go to sites they feel bring them value.

You have some die-hard DNFers, maybe? But you need new blood as well.

Mass PPC campaign, other advertising, domain events, make sure SEO is on point etc. Get new users.

Give out subscriptions to various domain tools out there.

There is a lot more you can do. Need to be active, need to put some money into it.

Then, just maybe it would have a chance.