DNForum and Domaining.com Launch e-Newsletters
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Two popular domain name sites start e-mail newsletters.
DNForum and Domaining.com are now e-mailing updates to registered users.
DNForum is one of the oldest and largest online forums about domain names with over 60,000 registered members. Its first newsletter just arrived in my inbox yesterday. Future plans call for the newsletter to be delivered on the 1st and 16th of each month. The newsletter will include a profile of a DNForum member as well as suggested domain tools (including some of DNForum’s premium services).
Domaining.com, a domain news aggregator of RSS feeds, is sending out a daily e-mail that includes the top 10 stories on Domaining.com. Although I was skeptical of Domaining.com when it came out (can’t you just add the feeds to your RSS reader?), it has become a great resource for discovering new domain name blogs. A few months ago Domaining.com required users to register in order to click through to articles, and the site promised more features. It appears that the daily top 10 blast is the first major feature to utilize your registration information. Hat tip to Francois.
Further Reading:
- DNForum to launch paid parking service
- Domaining.com To Launch New Domain Escrow Service
- Survey: DNForum is Best Domain Name Forum
Tags: DNForum, Domaining.com
Thanks for the post.
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Domaining.com members should be able soon to select their prefered source of information they want to watch and/or receive headlines. Also, we will give the possibility to receive a daily, or weekly newsletter.
Francois, that’s good. I don’t know that I want to receive the email every day.
Francois, I like the direction of Domaining.com. I didn’t want to sign up at first, but eventually I did. I really enjoy Domaining.com and visit daily.
It is a “nice” little site/service, but should not require registration in order to click through to the articles.
Everyone’s entitled to profit from their efforts, but it’d be better if Francois placed (more) ads on his site instead; and instead ask if we’d like to register…
This week-end several new domain bloggers asked me to be included in Domaining.com
For some of them I found their post of low quality and I am afraid they be in fact simply attracted by the free ad channel the newsletter offer.
Thus I just decided I will test this week a different option where a reduced amount of headlines will be sent. 5 maximum. With the hope this will push bloggers to create posts of higher quality to get advantage of the extra audience.
Last thing, some bloggers are so popular that any headline, even of poor domaining interest immediately get a huge traffic flow. I may start to mannualy remove them from the newsleter to offer a chance to less popular bloggers that have done a great post.
Francois, good ideas. I think it’s important to keep only good quality blogs in the system.
You might also just add a “featured blog post” to your newsletter if you found one blog post particularly good.