Sensing the growth of enom resellers and the need of support.
I had an idea :idea: of setting up an (Unofficial)Enom Forum.
It will be a forum for all the enom users.
(Others also welcome to join.)

The forum in my mind is something like this:

Enom
- Domain Registration
- Domain Reselling
- Registry Rocket
- PDQ
- API Development
- PHP
- ASP
- Perl
- News/Features Discussion
Business
- Management
- Promotion
- Payment
Domain
- News
- Reselling
- Expired Name
- Tools
General
- Chat
- Feedback
Advertising
- Related Offers
- Request


Because the lack of money, I was wondering anyone would like to donate hosting or vbulletin license or $$$ to setup this forum? I'm sure it will benefits all of us. :) Anyone support this? Please voice out your comment.

p/s: You are welcome to steal this idea.
(If you are stealing it, be sure assign me as the moderator :D)

- Darren -

can use free forums such as phpbb?

or having one section here at WHT if the moderators allow it

Darren,

Pardon my ignorance but is there actually a need for a specific tld universal resource locator just for that particular service outside of Enom's regular support channel?

Darren, I might host and set this up.

Please pm me for details...

thanks.

I might be interested in hosting it also. I'd be using phpBB.

Frank

Thanks for all the response and kind offers.

Perhaps I should describe my idea in more detail. This enom forum will be target 'mostly' for eNom reseller to discuss all the various aspect of domain reselling. Eg.:
- API, PDQ, Registry Rocket. How to integrate into your site?
- Reseller/subreseller? Functions? Differences?
- How you can get the payment done?
- How to get the advantage of the eNom tools?
- Where to find a drop list.
- Or if you are looking for a domain reselling account?
- How to get the profit from this crowding industry. What are the business strategies?

But it is not limited to domain reselling discussion, other domain related issue are welcome.

I'm still planning on it. It seems like phpbb is the only choice.
If nothing wrong, I'll be setting up the forum in either one of the hosting offered.

May be the forum will become popular?! ... :)

Hey, I'm also insterested. I can register a domain name and host the site on my dedicated.
So, should we start it?

Originally posted by zoli
Hey, I'm also insterested. I can register a domain name and host the site on my dedicated.
So, should we start it?


ded server? So it's better if you get that job done! ;) :D

i am interested too :stickout

Have you tried invision board... that could be an alternative to phpbb. But both are good. Also can we all use it as a support forum too for our customers? Maybe we can fix prices too? Am I the only one who is tired of people coming to me telling me they can get account on ebay for nothing and asking me to match it? :stickout


Originally posted by Darren
Thanks for all the response and kind offers.

Perhaps I should describe my idea in more detail. This enom forum will be target 'mostly' for eNom reseller to discuss all the various aspect of domain reselling. Eg.:
- API, PDQ, Registry Rocket. How to integrate into your site?
- Reseller/subreseller? Functions? Differences?
- How you can get the payment done?
- How to get the advantage of the eNom tools?
- Where to find a drop list.
- Or if you are looking for a domain reselling account?
- How to get the profit from this crowding industry. What are the business strategies?

But it is not limited to domain reselling discussion, other domain related issue are welcome.

I'm still planning on it. It seems like phpbb is the only choice.
If nothing wrong, I'll be setting up the forum in either one of the hosting offered.

May be the forum will become popular?! ... :)

Originally posted by jhcashman
Also can we all use it as a support forum too for our customers?


You should setup your own support system :D.

Originally posted by jhcashman

Maybe we can fix prices too?


Would you really like to spend time in a federal prison :D Price fixing is still illegal in the US.

Frank

Originally posted by ffeingol


You should setup your own support system :D.



Yes I could however I don't have enough customers to require a full fledge board as many enom resellers I am sure. Unless you have at least a hundred customers theres really no point. However if you got 20 different resellers each with say 30-50 customers you would have enough people to start a forum and you would have 20 people who would help answer each others questions which would result in much quicker response times. Am I the only on that thinks this is a good idea?

Originally posted by ffeingol

Would you really like to spend time in a federal prison :D Price fixing is still illegal in the US.

Frank
yes sadly I knew this was coming :( I was j/k ;)

Also can we all use it as a support forum too for our customers? Maybe we can fix prices too?

Just ask your customer to join the forum, I'm sure someone there can offers some help. May we can create a special sub-forum specially for your customers? ;)


Am I the only one who is tired of people coming to me telling me they can get account on ebay for nothing and asking me to match it?

I can understand that. If the enom reseller keep competing against each other, the price will soon(now?) crash(look at the offers at eBay for example). So, I think the forum will be a place for all the 'eNomers' to discuss about this serious issue.


Hey, I'm also insterested. I can register a domain name and host the site on my dedicated.
So, should we start it?

Thanks for the great offers. I'm sure our forum run smoothly on the ded. box. :D

I still haven't decide the name yet although enomforum.com was previously in my mind. But I received a PM regarding naming the word 'eNom' as a part of forum/domain. We may face a lawsuit on that one. May be a more general name like domain reseller forum? Any suggestion?

Originally posted by Darren

Just ask your customer to join the forum, I'm sure someone there can offers some help. May we can create a special sub-forum specially for your customers? ;)


I'm not sure this would be a good idea. I would not want my customer to learn about other eNom resellers who may be selling below my retail price. It would not take most customers long to figure out who was cheapers and all move.

Originally posted by Darren

I still haven't decide the name yet although enomforum.com was previously in my mind. But I received a PM regarding naming the word 'eNom' as a part of forum/domain. We may face a lawsuit on that one.

I would suggest that we try to get eNom involved with this. Maybe even host it? This can only be of benefit to eNom, with little or no cost to them.

Frank

Originally posted by ffeingol


I would suggest that we try to get eNom involved with this. Maybe even host it? This can only be of benefit to eNom, with little or no cost to them.

Frank

Well, but then it wouldn't be an independent forum anymore, wouldn't it? I there were major complaints with enom or other probs, they might just shut the forum or delete posts...you never know... Maybe that sounds a bit extreme...but I and I think most ppl would prefer a completely independent forum and much rather sign up then.

just my $ 0.02 :cool:

BTW: how abou emforums.com?

enomforum.com is still available ;)

Originally posted by wwww



ded server? So it's better if you get that job done! ;) :D

wwww, what is your problem? Both of my servers are / were up!

Originally posted by wwww


Well, but then it wouldn't be an independent forum anymore, wouldn't it?

Well everyone who has offered to host in (myself included) are eNom resellers. How independent is that :D.

Frank

Originally posted by zoli


wwww, what is your problem? Both of my servers are / were up!


It looks like you misunderstood me, I meant, that it's better if you will host that forum not me, since you are on a dedicated server and I am only on a reseller account yet.

Sorry for my late-night english :blush:


Originally posted by ffeingol


Well everyone who has offered to host in (myself included) are eNom resellers. How independent is that :D.

Frank

That's still more independent than having enom hosted it, since you guys are actually customers from enom and not enom itself.

adding up to $ 0.04 :)

wwww, sorry if I was so rude, yes, I misunderstood you... :)

Originally posted by zoli
wwww, sorry if I was so rude, yes, I misunderstood you... :)

no worries :D

yes i agree independence is perfered :stickout

.. sorry for the late reply

Originally posted by jhcashman
yes i agree independence is perfered :stickout
guess we are on our own.. ;)

so, anyone think of a good name yet? :)
emforum.com?
enomforum.com?

This would be a great thing to have! I'm having trouble using eNom's billing in my php API...and eNom isn't able to look at the code and help me find the problem.

Since others have probably gone through this problem and other common ones, we could all benfit from the help :)

Originally posted by Chris Marks
This would be a great thing to have! I'm having trouble using eNom's billing in my php API...and eNom isn't able to look at the code and help me find the problem.

Are you using eNom's CC processing?
I wouldn't want to use them as their proccessing rate is higher and they hold your money for 90 days.. not good for me as I want the money back faster. I'm thinking of using 2CO, as the rate is much lower. May be we can have a discussion on this when the forum is up? Can't wait to see.. :)

Originally posted by Chris Marks


Since others have probably gone through this problem and other common ones, we could all benfit from the help :)
.. another great supporter :D

I have a full merchant account setup...and I wanted to get a virtual terminal w/ authorize.net access, but I'm stuck in a 2 yr lease on the physical terminal from my previous business :(

So eNom's is the only way to go because it has to be instant...

Anyone else using eNom's processing on the php terminal and could offer some help?

Okay, who is going to host it now? :)

it seems no one care doing this idea. everything is just words without doing anything.
I will register the domain "enomforum.com" and make a site for it.
tell me if you want a different domain for this site.

An I believe hosting isn't a problem.

Apart from somebody registering the domain has anything else happened about this idea?

Any news?

.. sorry for the late reply.. the idea still goes on. The forum will be hosted on a dedicated server with phpBB. I'm waiting for the reply from eNom to see whether it is ok to use the domain enomforum.com. Or else, we will be using emforum.com.

If enomforum.com is a problem, we can get a generic domain.

Being I thought this was a pretty good idea and would help centralize (sp) support for Enom with all the Enom Resellers popping up I set up www.enomforums.com to post any conversations that may arise with Enom.

Check it out and please post ;)

Thanks

P.S

Moderators are needed on this forum so if you have knowledge with Enom and have some extra time feel free to contact me.

Thanks

Tom

Excellent!
I hope a lot of eNom resellers signup, because eNom support hasn't been very helpful so far (ie. they haven't replied to any of my emails)

Thanks Blacknight for support, on Enom behalf thou I feel Enom is probally over loaded cause you got to think that if I would set up a reseller they get a Enom default page which sends support to enom so with all of these reseller reselling reseller account..gosh I would hate to try and say that ten times over :dgrin: Enom is probally getting swamped (sp) with requests for support, so thats why Im hoping this will work as some of the common questions can be answered in an open forum

Tom

eNom Forum is now up! Join our forum now!

http://www.emforum.com

So instead of one 'alternative' , now there are two??

Originally posted by blacknight
So instead of one 'alternative' , now there are two??

Yea, seems so, and neither of them have any posts.

Darren - You missed reading some of the replies here on your thread.

Originally posted by DotComster
Darren - You missed reading some of the replies here on your thread.
:confused: what am I missing here?

I had this idea and now the forum is up. I would like to annouce it to everybody to join this forum.

Yea...you're missing something :stickout:

Someone already opened an eNom Forum at www.enomforums.com

Well, as I already said in my first post, I don't mind others to steal my idea. And now I would like to setup my own forum with this idea. The forum is now up and I welcome anyone to join! :)

Yes, but there are now two boards where one would be enough. Nighthawk got his off the ground first, so why don't you join forces? It seems a bit dumb having two quiet boards when you'd stand a better chance of getting some members and traffic on one.

The only way to make those 2 forums work together is to partner them ie Darren and Nighthawk both join each other's sites. Might be better if they became moderators to.

Two nice friendly and partnered sites are better than 2 grumpy ones. That way no one has to chose where to sign up - we can sign up and post on both :)

Im sorry if this has caused a problem, I was not trying to steal anyones idea, I just personally saw users wanting this and Darren left the thread for about a month I thought it became a dead issue so I moved on it and started enomforums.com I started this about a month ago. I have no problems with Darren starting this forum and hold no grudges against him, I just started it to help out other users, to build a community for one to share their help the way they do here on WHT

I do wish more users would join either board and get this started, possible help with a banner positioning to spread the word etc be it my board enomforums.com or Darren's at emforum.com, as I do feel its a great idea to centralise(sp) the support for enom

Thanks
Tom