Topic: CryptoForum.org (Read 438 times)

Domain CryptoForum.org is not free for registration but very possibly is taken by Godaddy registrar. They often occupy domains after they expire, if they estimate it may have some value.

https://whois.domaintools.com/cryptoforum.org


I think I've seen it at least 50 times brilliant business idea, creating a new crypto forum. I was especially interested in the ideas they were called xyzsomethingTalk.
Obviously, everyone can understand how it's work and that is possible to earn money through the running forum, But the fact that is behind a lot of serious work and of course, forum without people ^{lot of people} does not worth anything.
So, if you don't have an idea how to attract people to visit and use the forum, you can forget about this schema and no need to waste a time for programming and integrating any addons or whatever.

Are you sure you acquired this domain ?  Its shows its available for sale. Buy that domain first before its gone.

That's kind of inevitable isn't it?

Many of them miss a trick and don't have well organised casual sections unrelated to crypto. Sometimes you want to talk about something else with the pals you've made. An expanded non crypto bit for various subjects might encourage more discourse and bring in some users. One 'off topic' forum is too general and they tend to be aimless and shapeless.

I have seen a lot of cryptocurrency forums on the internet.
They tend to be different when they announce it, but what they did just copying almost all of bitcointalk useful threads.
I hope you are not trying to build that kind of forum.

If you want to get more users, you may consider to add paid to post feature with Dogecoin.
Promote it in doge community on telegram.
I saw dogecoin become newbie’s favorite on collecting free money.

Advanced or any cool features is not needed in your starts. It is already enough if users can generates free money from your site. Come on, am I wrong?

Exactly but people would really have that kind common impression anytime they do make some read on the word forum then they would really be presuming that it would really be a forum.
There are instances which you had mentioned which are on exemption.Forum word doesnt always mean on what we do know about "forum"
Going back, the domain is currently for sale but to expect that even if this one do have crypto word on it then you can expect something expensive for this one.

And how did you manage to come up with that logic? FYI, the forum just doesn't mean an online forum, if you look back at the definitions used by the Romans, it goes beyond your "online forum logic". People don't really care what the website domain is as long it has great content. With your logic, "Facebook" should be a website about book faces? Flawed.

Domain names is - cryptoforum.org There is a word "forum" on domain name and logically if there is anything built on this website, it should be a forum. Even if we consider another case, it will be illogical for users when they see cryptoforum as a domain name and see absolutely different staff on website.


That's why I mentioned that it's logical that he took .org instead of .com and yes, in this case, .org would function better because of bitcointalk. On another hand, logically bitcoin.com has more value than bitcointalk.org for business purposes.

The domain name now is on sale looking for buyers,

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It would be more better if they come up with a different features and deliver a lot more than the firstly mover bitcointalk, just few month ago altcointalk made a feature of teleporting of ranks from bitcointalk to altcointalk. Meaning, if a full member rank register account on altcointalk, the user can teleport his full member to altcointalk without starting from newbie, but under some certain conditions.
https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=178480

having a forum is not an easy task and from what I understand, in the last few years people have only entered a forum to:

1 - make money

2 - publicize your products

3 - to sell your products and services

4 - get knowledge (a very small number of people create an account in some forum to get knowledge)

The forums have become a big and complicated business

What do you need to add?


Well I would say that you need to look to have a good design like this forum and you should have partnerships with these altcoin creators so that they put their ANN Threads on your forum because only in this way you will attract people to your forum

Spell check would be a good start:



And can you please make it super-friendly for bounty hunters. I think that would be a win-win. You'd get a lot of traffic, and Bitcointalk could get back to being more... bitcoiny. Or just sell the domain to Yobit, they seem to have money to burn on projects like that.

Great domain name but honestly I don't see much practical value. A lot of people prior have already tried to imitate bitcointalk and make a wider forum, but it has just never worked out from a commercial standpoint. Yobit even paid tens of BTC in advertising their Cryptotalk site and still failed.

All in all, it'll  be incredibly difficult for you to differentiate yourself from an already established forum of bitcointalk.

I think that you have two paths that you can go by in terms of deciding what features will be included that will give you some chance of success:

a) Paid posting, this will keep the forum at least alive but honestly will probably lead to more harm long term than good.
b) Niche forum for a particular user group. For instance, for altcoin day traders.

But even going down these routes will likely not be successful given the sheer dominance of bitcointalk.

Just wanted to add(because I'm a freakin nerd when it comes to SEO and these kinds of stuff):

a .org domain would actually sometimes be better for an online forum; "org" is truncated from the word "organization" in the first place. Though it really depends on what kind of look and feel OP has for CryptoForum. Imo, .org's are better for the Bitcointalk-ish traditional style of forums, while .com's would be better for the "trying-to-be-different" sort of style of forums like Reddit and Quora.

But really though, both could work and the advantages and disadvantages of a .com and .org forum wouldn't be THAT significant. It still boils down to management and if the forum actually takes off in the first place(because it's really difficult as fk to grow a forum on a decently established niche).

I share the views of previous users that it is indeed quite hard to create another forum and make it big. We are not short of forums. Crypto-centered forums include this one, Altcointalk, Cryptotalk, Bitcoingarden, and so on. Aside from that, crypto fans could easily discuss about crypto-related topics in leading social media and discussion sites such as Reddit, Telegram, and so on. But, yeah, why not go for it as the crypto market is still fast expanding?

I guess it would help if you have more specific sections which are not provided here. This idea is inspired by a recent post by BitcoinFX which was somehow seconded by mk4 in a recent thread where the OP is inquiring about "an active forum discussing anonymity and privacy." Having said this, I guess you could create much more focused discussions if sections are more specified. Let's say, you devote a specific section for trending topics such as DeFi or perhaps Yield Farming or derivate trading or the rising blockchain gaming using NFT tokens, and so forth. I guess it could attract highly specialized audience which might have found this and other existing forums not interesting enough.

And finally, as much as I hate to say this, you shouldn't forget about incentives. I believe this forum is a lot lonelier, albeit more educational, serious, and cleaner, without paid signatures. Well, it depends on your goal.

Users and lots of them? There's nothing sadder than an empty forum and most start empty and remain that way.

In this day and age forums are on their way out unless already established. People do Facebook groups and IM stuff like Telegram or Discord. I think it's an unfortunate development as all that info effectively vapourises.

If I were starting one now I'd be looking to integrate features you see on social media like news feeds and price tickers would certainly tickle users. Anything extra to make it a little more than a blank page needing filling in.

Why is everyone disagreeing with the idea of having that domain? It is a very good domain to own and has so much potential of course unless they're not creating to create another Bitcointalk.

@OP: You can maybe have a forum that offers tutorials for someone new getting into cryptos? Maybe a blog or something of that sort? The market is quite saturated on all that stuff but a unique idea can really put that domain to use.

Well, upon checking cryptoforum.org it routed me to menu options and when I clicked each of those menus it routed me to a landing page of different websites but all are bitcoin and crypto-related sites. I don't see any forum but the home page is colorful that could entice people to visit it oftentimes. If I am mistaken or could probably be redirected to the wrong landing page then what I may suggest is similar to the others that could make the community interested not only in the special offers you can provide them but also in the topics or ideas which could make it remarkable for the readers. However, do of what suggested above because you are not the one who had planned to have a crypto forum, I remember before who had failed because not enough fund to sustain and immediately shutting down.

If you are starting from zero with new crypto forum it will be hard for you to get any real traffic, and you can see all other crypto related forums.
You would really need to offer something special to attract people there  including protection from spammers.
Think of adding something that is missing on bitcointalk forum, and maybe your forum can be extension of bitcointalk.

I tend to agree with some of the comments above. I don't think that making a forum is worth it, it's going to be extremely difficult to compete with Bitcointalk or other forums.

I realize that the domain name may not be the best for such thing, but If I were you, I'd just make a tool that serve the crypto community somehow (a detailed crypto directory for instance).

I won't add more to the suggestions in the previous comments. All accurate .
I invite Op to take a look at the new forum software under-developement : New forum software
GitHub : https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk
User TheBeardedBaby started a project for developpement and discussion :
Epochtalk development overview. Current version:1.35.4 (2020-11-09)
LIST & Disscution]Epochtalk Additon Features request.
I can't tell you if it's possible to use that new software but by following the developement discussion you will get a general overview about to get first thoughts to begin .
This topic should be under "Project Developement" board .

Okay, when you want to start a business, you need a good domain name. Cryptoforum.org is really a good domain .com would be a better choice but since bitcointalk has an .org domain, it's logical.
Well, we have a good domain, then what? Usually, website owners work on SEO to improve their ranking in search engines but in your case, this alone won't have a huge impact because you need to build a community. It's very hard to build community, what you do is like following: Imagine you want to build search engine and you need to get google's team on your side in order to succeed. You can't pick bitcointalk members, this is an established community that is almost impossible to beat, even satoshi was the member of this forum. You can't build a better one, sorry but that's true. Better to prioritize your resources and energy on another projects with a real aim.