Registrar Sub Forum

[RaiderGirl]

Maybe I'm missing it somewhere but I don't see where NP has a Registrar sub forum, If not, WHY not?

By having one, it would summon a rep from that registrar and broadly resolve a lot of issues that we as domainers have.

When creating one, Please include Fabulous, Enom, Godaddy, Moniker and Dynadot.

Feel free to add other preferred registrars.

Thank you

 

[Eric Lyon]

right now we have domain registrar reviews & multiple dedicated registrar coupon threads in the main domain discussion forums. We encourage registrars to participate in their reviews threads and in their designated coupon threads. We do have a few registrars in the private "Registrars" group on NP, but they rarely like to post anywhere publicly and mostly just scan the content without participating.

So not sure how active that would be. I think a better alternative is if a Registrar wishes to sponsor their own forum (Modest monthly fee), we can create a category and open a forum specifically for them there to engage the members on NP.

So far we haven't had any registrars come forward willing to dedicate a representative to their own support forum and they try to keep support on their own sites, which is why targeted topics about their companies don't have reps posting in them either.

DomainMonster was active with a rep for a little while last year but then regressed back to their own site for support.

In theory its a nice idea to have 100+ (or just top 5) special support forums just for registrar reps, but we have found over the years (so far) that 3rd party support doesn't seem to be at the top of registrars lists and they keep falling back to in-house support.

I'm definitely open to talking with registrar's one on one to see if an option like that is viable enough for them. If you know any registrar support managers / owners, feel free to send them my way so we can talk about it more.

Eric Lyon