Will Name Pros ever be a paid for Membership?

[DomainSlayer]

Will Name Pros ever be a paid for Membership?
Or will there are any future palns to make Name Pros a subscription forum?

 

[phpwiz]

i really hope not, i would pay but im sure they make enough money on it to not make it membership only.

 

[Robson]

Wouldn't have thought so....DNF is like that and people pay but I don't think they would want to ruin the community.

 

[monRa]

i'm seeing a DNF ad now at the google ads, hope we will not became as them!

 

[GJ]

It's been discussed with about a 60:40 split going to no, they don't want a paid membership. This was based on forum replys from my memory so it could be slighly diffrent.

 

[theSun]

FREE membership is what made namepros unique. So lets stay that way.

 

[markkk]

I also hope not. besides theyve got advertisers.

 

[simpsons]

Hope they don't

 

[user-7256]

Bah no. They make a lot via NP$ exchanges in the bank. Check out the log.

 

[RegFee]

Sitepoint is charging to list domains now. There's another thread about this already, but I figured it'd be a good point to bring up here. If people are willing to spend 10 bucks per thread at sitepoint, I'm sure they wouldn't mind paying a couple of bucks for a membership here.

 

[stscac]

FREE membership is what made namepros unique. So lets stay that way.

EXACTLY!

-Steve

 

[HFear]

There have been several threads about this before, and RJ disagreed with the idea of making NamePros have paid memberships.

 

[jeter4982]

Ya, its ultimately Ron's decision, and if he wants to keep NamePros a free forum, then thats what it will remain. I definitely think NamePros should remain a free forum, but I'm not completely opposed to separate higher forums, where you need to pay.

Tom

 

[Stephen]

I do not believe that Ron will make Namepros a paid forum...

I believe it will continue to be free.

Stephen

 

[Veolus]

Maybe they could make some more money out of premium membership where premium members have more privileges than normal members.. such as banners in sigs, access to hidden forums especially for premium members and normal NamePros members would have all the privileges they currently have..

 

[zaros64]

Maybe they could make some more money out of premium membership where premium members have more privileges than normal members.. such as banners in sigs, access to hidden forums especially for premium members and normal NamePros members would have all the privileges they currently have..

yes.. then there is another argument.. why are staff allowed in the premium forums without paying.. lol

 

[Tippy]

The only prob. I have with paying is this is a Forum, we the Members provide the content... so how could you charge people to add free content to your site, I mean its their time and energy that goes into each post... without loyal Members, there would be no NP. To me it would be a pleasure to have so many Loyal Members coming to my site day after day providing free, helpful info to all.

Being able to sell our names is more or less a kick back for our hard work and support.

I did mention this at DNF prior to it going paid, but they obviously did as they please, I now basically only list names for sale there, I dont participate much in other Forum discussions.

As far as SitePoint charging $10 to list a name well they can kiss my you know what...

 

[Veolus]

Yep, everyones starting to charge they are now also charging $9.99 just to list a domain for sale when people hardly ever buy domains that are listed in the "Sell your Domain" forum ..

 

[Tippy]

Its all kinda funny really, way back when I first started out in this game there was like one Domain forum, then came another, then another and so on. Sure these forums are a great place to chat about domains but it has also gotten thousands of people interested in the domain name game making it next to impossible these days to hand reg an average name at best.

I dont hold the forums 100% responceable ( heck, I found out about it via a Forum, lol ) as I'm sure people would have found out about the domain game eventually but face the facts they certainly didnt help... its kinda like finding a lost map or pot of gold and sharing it with the world lol

Sure its nice to share but before long there wont be anything left worth sharing...

My little rant for the day lol

 

[Jeff]

I would be in favor of doubling the existing Namepros Membership fee™, IMHO. :blink: :p

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PS. :hi: