Forum or Forums?

Nick · Posted: 6/5/2006, 10:53 pm Post subject: Forum or Forums?

I'm 95% set on starting a new community on a new domain tomorrow and I would like to know if you think the word forum or forums would be better in the domain. It would be either www._____forum.com or www._____forums.com. I've always had it as forums, but everything I've seen, other than Patrick's forums, has been www.____forum.com or XForum.net, etc.
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Disturbed One · Posted: 6/6/2006, 12:20 am Post subject:

I think it really depends on what flows.

www.dogforum.com doesn't really sound right.
www.dogforums.com sounds better.

www.thehtmlforum.com sounds ok, but so does the plural form.

Choose what sounds right to you.
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I think it depends on the word before forum or forums. Although in most cases the plural sounds better. Truestar Forum versus Truestar Forums. Although it's technically fora, Forums has a nice ring to it and can fit with nearly anything. Smile

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Ex0dus · Posted: 6/6/2006, 6:09 pm Post subject:

probably the hardest decision i had to make ^_<

Forums though just sounds better in most cases. Im kind of odd in that i usually put my forum in a subdomain instead of giving it a real domain.

Maybe not the smart page rank thing to do, but ive never really followed google around that much anyway ^_^

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Nick · Posted: 6/8/2006, 1:43 am Post subject:

I went with forums.
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Big Brother · Posted: 7/10/2006, 10:15 am Post subject:

Good choice, that is the one that I would have recommended, mainly because it is a better description. Your community is made up of FORUMS not just one FORUM. That's how I look at it anyway.
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blaster · Posted: 7/29/2006, 3:31 pm Post subject:

yea good choice becuase www.______forum.com sounds weird. I think forums sound better. Because its a set of forums.
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dropshipforum.co.uk · Posted: 8/1/2006, 6:06 am Post subject:

Why don't you just register both?
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Nick · Posted: 8/1/2006, 6:08 am Post subject:

Money.
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