NamePros.com is back up and working again. The domain forum was down for almost 2 days and has been having database issues for a pretty long time now. The recent downtime was due to data center problems according to Rachel.
I did try and contact Ron James the owner of NP earlier today to find out what the problem was or if I could assist in anyway but I did not hear back. Ron’s wife just posted on her Facebook page that the site is back up and working again.
On a domain forum side note, the other day I was comparing traffic to both the popular forum sites DnForum.com and NamePros.com
Since they both have a steady drop in traffic according to these charts from Compete.com, I found that pretty interesting. Clearly this drop could be from several factors like the economy but I also think domain blogs like DotWeekly.com and Domaining.com etc could also have created a decline at domain forums. It will be interesting to see if these number gain or continue to decline with the state of the economy and or the growth of domain related blogs.
I think the information being provided by domain blogger’s blows the info you can obtain on the majority of domain forums but I still drop in from time to time to offer up some help at forums and I do find some interesting conversations going on from time to time.
Easy E
Wow, 2 days.
Compete.com stats are extremely rough. Better than Alexa, and good for an estimate of a site’s monthly traffic, but their data is not accurate enough to draw trends month to month, IMO.
Jamie Zoch
I agree about the stats, but I just wanted to provide a visual. The only website stats that are close to being accurate are the stats for the specific site!