Multiple forums using vbulletin?

[webmasterdigest]

Hi, I have an existing site at www.talktopics.com. I am thinking of changing it to vbulletin but have some questions regarding licensing issues and whether I am permitted to do what i intend to do.

Here's what i want to do:

1. Allow members at talktopics to instantly start their own 'Forum or group'. This forum will have it's own sub-categories. For example, a member who wants to talk about toyotas can create a group called toyota, and his forum would be at:

toyota.talktopics.com/

and he can have categories for that such as:

- Buying Toyotas
- Selling Toyotas
- Intro yourself as toyota fan
- etc
- etc

Now, my question really is two part:

1. Is it even possible with hacks to do this or is this really a silly question and is alreay build into vbulletin?

2. Would my sub-domain idea violate vbulletin's licensing as they could theoritically be considered as running multiple forums???

[amykhar]

1. It's possible.
2. It depends. This is a question you should really address directly to Jelsoft. Some mods that allowed users to have subforums have been deemed ok. Others have not. It would be best to get the permission or denial straight from the company.