Never say never - opening a new forum

Well, I thought I was just about finished opening forums. With as much trouble as they are, I thought I was done with new forums. That was until last night.

Last night, as I was laying in bed about half asleep, I had an idea of a new forum - along with the domain name.

This morning I log into namecheap, check the domain name and sure enough its open.

I just bought a new domain name and at the end of the month I'll be buying a vbulletin license and opening a new forum.

So never say never. You dont know when your gonna change your mind.

 

Ain't that the truth. I said TKK was going to be my last forum.

And I too was in bed one night almost asleep, when the idea of the support forum came to me. I've struggled with it for a few weeks now. But my son's therapist kept telling me how important it was. Soooooooooooooooo... here I go again.

 

So what is the forum going to be about? Generally speaking of course. Don't expect you to reveal your secrets.

 

I have a few forums and said I'd stick to one a year, the other night I bought about 20-something domain names and over the next 2 months I plan to open a dozen forums (some of the domains are just misspellings or .com / .net combo's) so yeah, never say never lol.

I hope one day to have a hundred forums online. They're a really cool business and you get in touch with soooooo many people who want to make it work with your for whatever reason. My forums have a lot of commercial interest so I've never wanted to launch too many due to the management of them commercially, but sod it. If half of them work it's still a quicker turnaround than one a year.

Well done to you.

I've bought domain names in the middle of the night whilst a little tipsy and have spelt them wrong or made a type mess in the purchase lol. So well done to you not doing it half sleepy. It's not in me to wait, though I do try to.

 

I'm really done with them after I get rid of these last few I have.

Been doing it for 6-7 years now and not much real success so figured it's time to move on!

 

Wayne, I think its going to be more trouble then its worth. A thread was posted on digital point and vbulletin.org, and I got neutral-negative feedback at both places.

I was thinking of opening a forum on youtube. The domain name is forumsonyoutube. But since the name "youtube" is owned by google, I might be opening up a can of snakes.

So I might just add a youtube section to the bottom of my wife camera forum. I'am not sure yet though.

I have been posting videos on youtube for 2 1/2 years. So its something that I have experience with. But I dont know if I want the worry hanging over my head of using the youtube name in the domain.

 

Well TBH I've seen quite a few sites with Youtube in the domain, but I wouldn't like to risk it myself if it was me.

 

Haha, it seems that I'm not the only one who gets forum/site ideas in bed.

 

I'm always looking for new ventures, but I was pretty sure that I was done for a while. I was wrong; I'm working on a new forum right now.

 

I've just closed two of my forums down

Still got the most active ones til november tho

 

Mikey do you have extra licenses that you need to get rid of? I'm looking for 1 to 3 licenses (depending on price) for my forums to come in the near future.

 

Hi Arny, I'm afraid I have one license w/project tools I was looking to get rid of, but it isn't eligible for transfer for at least 6 months. Sorry :/

 

I said I was going to quit the forum thing as well lol. I started a Sim game (simbergusa.com) forum which was not successful, infotechland.org....was supposed to be an it site, well, that didn't work, I started texasdiscussion.com, failed pretty miserably as well lol. Then one night I'm laying in bed (strange how this works) talking with my wife, when it hits me.....time for a new domain lol. Next thing I know I'm on namecheap registering planetwideforums.com (it was available, surprisingly) and now I'm starting to work on it and getting ready to completely launch it and try to advertise (once I find ways to do that lol). REcently I also purchased a domain for hacking (ethical) and started that one out.

So I'm working on two new forums, even after, not even 2 months ago, saying I quit forums lol.

 

Good luck with your venture!