which is better for forum

[jenniffer harris]

which is better for forum domain? I want to explain that with an example. Should I choose www. myforumname.com or www. mydomain.com/forum as a forum ?

 

[Migi]

Thread moved to a more suitable forum. 🙂

 

[D]

www.myforumname.com

No point having a homepage unless your selling products or the forum is just an additional part of the site.

 

[Red Herring]

I prefer to leave it as,

www.myforumname.com/forum

In the event that I ever do want a homepage/CMS of some sort. Until then, however, I just leave a redirect in place.

 

[Scotty123]

Honestly i believe leaving it with www. is the best option and will help your site a lot in the future but its my personal opinion.

 

[VirusZero]

I like <forum.domain.tld> so when I picked my domain name I went for just the name of the site. Without forum or anything else in the domain name itself.
This way I could add other aspects, rather than just a forum, without it seeming odd. So this way I can have wiki.domain.tld or social.domain.tld or blog.domain.tld. (Rather than like wiki.domain-forum.tld or blog.domain-forum.tld.)

Plus I think that looks a bit neater than www.domain.tld/forum

 

[Shawn Gossman]

When I usually make a forum, I just have ideas to make a forum so I keep it as the TLD root www.the-forum.com instead of a directory or subdomain. If I want to add a portal or something like that in the future, most forum software will do this quite easily without having to manually move anything around.

 

[mav3n]

If it is just the forum that you are holding under that domain, just use the regular domain without the /forum on it. When you get a blog, marketplace or other special page is when you need add the ending.

 

[jenniffer harris]

Thanks to all for your valuable information. Now my problem is a little bit solved.