Acorn Domains gets fresh owner, refreshed site

Popular UK domain forum changed hands last year, now upgraded.

If you don’t invest in .uk domain names, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Acorn Domains.

I don’t own any .uk names, but I know that Acorn Domains is a popular domain forum for UK investors. I get a good bit of traffic whenever a story there links to Reglike.

This stretch, the owner of Acorn Domains disclosed that he recently purchased the forum and had upgraded it.

Fresh owner Steve Napier is a domain investor and SEO expert. He owns regarding 1,000 .uk domains in addition to other domains, he told Reglike.

Napier is also a Nominet member and has an accredited registrar.

In an email to Reglike, he wrote:

I purchased/bought my first online business in 2014 and got a taste for it. With my interest in domains and as an Acorn domains member I messaged ‘admin’ (Alan) at Acorn Domains to enquire if he would consider selling the forum business. He was mildly interested. 6 months later I asked again and the timing was right and we agreed a deal. I became the fresh owner in August 2015, Alan is a true gentleman and the transaction and process was smooth and trouble free. In March 2016 we re-built the forum design and migrated to a better platform (xenforo) which is fully responsive and mobile/tablet friendly. I’ve also moved Acorn Domains on to fast SSD hosting. It’s a nice thing to own a successful forum community in an area you are passionate regarding. The nature of domainers is such that forum topics cover a wide array of online business from website design and hosting to affiliate schemes and tax. I hope to continue to grow the Acorn Domains memberbase and take the forum to fresh heights over the coming years.