NuDoms stepping on each others' toes. Geez Louise!

Late last year, we reported on the discovery that Dean Kilworth, a co-founder, investor and partner of WordDial, had registered a block of domains that included monikers that one would associate with a numeric domain professional association AND a dedicated forum. Those domains, including Numericdomainersforum.com and Numericdomainersassociation.com, have given hope - at least to me - that there will one day be a superb forum and industry association for numeric domainers that will be launched by the WordDial founders, pioneers in the numeric domain and wordnumber fields.

It would appear that numeric domainers would respectfully exhibit patience for WordDial to launch - in due time - their well-thought-out association, and related forum, as with a daily-periodical, etc... Numeric domainers are such a small crowd and there are still so many good numeric domain properties that aren't bought up, so why the need to step on each others' toes?

One NuDom, Matt Asher, has beat Dean to the cookie jar - shame shame - and launched his own numeric domain forum. Via Top Cola Inc., Matt registered on March 2, 2008, the following domains: Numericdomainforum.com, Numericdomainforums.com, Numericdomainsforum.com and Numericdomainsforums.com; they all go to Matt's very own forum for us numeric domainers. The tagline for Matt's magnificent NuDom discussion board, which he branded 'NDF', is 'Exclusive web forum for numeric domain name holders'. His forum is brand new...there's not even a post on it... but at this early stage it already boasts 2 members and apparently there are people lurking already since I noticed 3 users were online when I was checking it out. The newest and 2nd member to the forum website, located at NumericDomainForums.com, is 'sevent', the 'handle' Matt uses on other forums.

I guess I find NDF is in poor taste. Okay, maybe there's enough of 'us' to have 2 forums, but why not pick a different URL, like nudomforum.com, or seventsforum.com? I am convinced that Dean and the WordDial folks have the enterprising and forward-thinking qualities to do a first-class job with their Numeric Domain Association and affiliated Forum, the latter located at Numericdomainersforum.com, now parked (for now). These TWO 'forum' URLs, however, are AWFULLY similar and NuDoms will undoubtedly get them mixed up quite often. Say what you will, comment what you like, but I think this is not the way we should be putting our collective best NuDom foot forward (by stepping on each others' toes).