DNForum.com
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| Industry: | Domain reselling |
| Founded: | Canada, 2001 |
| Headquarters: | Toronto, Canada |
| Country: | Canada |
| Website: | dnforum.com |
| Facebook: | DNForum Facebook |
| LinkedIn: | DNForum LinkedIn |
| Twitter: |  @dnforum
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| Key People | |
| Adam Dicker, Owner | |
DNForum.com is an online forum where people can discuss about domains as well as buy and sell them. The owner of this domain forum is Adam Dicker. DNForum is mainly targeted for domain sales, domain registrars and domain appraisals. This online forum is also favorable for novice to the concept of domains but looking to do domain marketing or business as well as learn about the various domain related aspects. The forum claims to be the largest community of its kind in the internet. Presently, the community has more than 85,000 domainers who are either engaged in buying or selling of domains or in learning and discussing about domains.[1]
Visitors
The forum was launched in the year 2001 and currently, there are more than 1,400,000 posts to be found in the forum discussion boards. The main target groups of the site include the industry domain enthusiasts as well as people looking for day to day business transactions. The community has a record of receiving approximately 80 million visitor hits every month which makes it 2.4 million hits each day on an average.
Membership[2]
For membership the domain requires the viewers to register on the site, a short process which can be completed within few minutes. The membership on the community is available in three options –
Gold Membership
This membership is meant for the Casual Domainer who is looking to purchase domains. However, this membership only enables the member to buy domains that are for sale but not sell any domain. Moreover, it allows the member to take part in private discussions and messaging with the other members in the forum. Plus, the member also gets access to some sections where he can reply to posts.
Platinum Membership
This membership targets the Advanced Domainer and entitles the registered member to buy, sell as well as learn about the various niche domains. Using this membership, the user can buy and sell domains, appraise his domains, engage in private discussions and messaging with the other DNForum community members. Besides, the membership allows posting in most sections besides replying to posts.
Exclusive Membership
This is another membership which targets the Advanced Domainer, only this brings along added advantages more than in the Platinum Membership. Using this membership, the user can join some of the best known or elite domainers in the internet industry. This allows the user to grow his own business and also, gives him access to the exclusive domain tools in the sale area. Thus, subscribing to this membership plan, the user gets all the advantages incorporated in the Gold and Platinum scales as well as gets the benefit of accessing the section enlisting the exclusive domains for sale. Further, the membership adds in complimentary copies of the Domain Guide to Success Ebook (worth $69.95) and the Expired Domain Name Suite (worth $79.95 Value).
Dnforum - Media Kit
The forum prefers to advertise the target audience effectively via sticky posts, category advertising and banners. However, the site has higher conversion rates as it targets the traffic.[3]