Is the dot forum a flop?

[Shawn Gossman]

I don't see forums using the .forum TLD.

Was it a flop? Is it too expensive or too spammy?

I'm seeing the .blog TLD used on blogs but never the .Forum.

What do you all think?

 

[Cpvr]

I believe so. I don’t see the .forum extension as being feasible for community owners.

The .com extension is better or .net, however if you want to spend the money for a
.forum extension, then by all means for go it.

I don’t see it as a good idea. Forums have done well without it. There really hasn’t been too many forums using that extension, so yes, it’s a flop.

 

[frm]

Nearly all ngTLDs (new generic TLDs) were a flop. The only ones that made money from it were ICANN with the 1000s of registration fees ($100,000~ I believe, with even more going into bidding for "great" dot keywords) and the registrars that sold premium names at hundreds to thousands of dollars to recoup those costs immediately on rush as users bought them up thinking they were the next great thing.

 

[meetdilip]

.forum is a good TLD. Maybe, not many people know about it. Never been suggested to me while searching for domain names.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Nearly all ngTLDs (new generic TLDs) were a flop.

I think you're right. I've been banning most of them from my cycling forum because I get so many spammers using them as their email.