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DNForum deletes 500k accounts

DNForum deletes 500k accounts

Forum deletes old stale accounts as part of a fresh beginning.

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Domain name forums DNForum and AcornDomains have purged 500,000 accounts, most of them yesterday.

Helmuts Meskonis purchased both of the forums last year. He has since worked to revitalize DNForum, which has languished under multiple ownership groups. AcornDomains is a popular niche forum for the UK.

On Sunday, Meskonis took his most significant action yet: purging accounts with no posts or comments following 10+ years. He also removed accounts with temporary email addresses.

This amounted to regarding 420,000 DNForum members. He had previously removed 70,000 inactive accounts.

As stated by the data on the bottom of DNForum, the site now has just over 45,000 members. AcornDomains has regarding 10,000 members.

The two sites are also now sending weekly newsletters.

To learn more regarding Helmuts’ plans for the forums, listen to DNW Podcast #474.

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