WebmasterWorld (WMW) is a forum catered for webmasters throughout the world. It is considered as one of the most important webmaster forums and is visited often by many webmasters and SEO professionals. WMW is also very heavily moderated and thus the forums are relatively spam free. It is founded by Brett Tabke. It used to be a paid forum but now it is free for all. You can find useful discussions on web programming, web designing, e-commerce, search engine optimization and other topics on this forum.

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WebHostingTalk (WHT) is a web hosting discussion forum. It has over 100,000 registered members with a wide range of topics available for discussion. They range from shared webhosting to dedicated servers to running a webhosting business. Registration is free at WHT, although they have premium members access as well. WHT is frequent by webhost owners, webhost clients, web design professionals and others who make up this big community. You can also read reviews on Webhosts by actual users of these companies.

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A very popular forum especially for webmasters and Search Engine Optimization professionals. It has a wide variety of topics for discussion like discussion on Google, directories, optimization, link building, copywriting, html design, graphic design and so on. Digitalpoint Forums has about 60,000 members and over 200,000 threads. If you are a webmaster or web designer or web programmer, this is also the place to get noticed and to network with others in the same trade. Access to the forums is free.

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NamePros is a discussion board for buyers and sellers of domain names. It is the largest forum dedicated to domain names. Currently, it has over 50,000 members who are active in this community. You can buy or sell domains here and you can learn more about domain names as well. There is also a subforum for discussion on web design and programming, purchasing entire websites and discussions on monetization of your website. This helpful community has everything you need to setup a successful web presence. Getting an account here is free.

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Nothing beats free! That includes creating and hosting your very own forum. Sure it is hosted on someone else's server and you will probably not have full access to the content, but hey, it comes close. ProBoards allows users to create very own forum easily and at no cost.So if you are so big fan of ice-cream, you can create an ice-cream discussion forum where like-minded sweet tooths can meet and talk about ice cream. It is a great idea for small forums or even private ones. Oh by the way, they have been in the business of hosting forums for over 10 years and they survive by advertisement sponsorships. So those forums will display advertisements. There is no limit on space or bandwidth though.

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Webmaster-Talk.com is a discussion board for webmasters throughout the world. Their members include webmasters, web designers, SEO specialist and even the hobbyist. This forum acts as a community place for those in the web services industry to gather and exchange ideas and thoughts and to debate on the latest happenings. In their forums, you can discuss about coding, website design, graphics design, webhosting, domain names and many others. You can even buy or sell websites. Access to the forums is free.

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