The story of the past few days has been the data breach at Epik. The Namepros thread has been the most popular thread on the forum. A lot of content, and Namepros top IT expert @Paul has done a great job adding commentary. Epik issued a new email today, updating the situation. Steps to take etc... Free credit monitoring for a year was one of the points. Full text: Hello,We previously … [Read more...]
Epik Update on Afternic Fast Transfer Status
Epik provided an update on their termination from Afternic Fast Transfer. In the blog post Epik gives some insight into what factors played a part in the decision from their view. From the post We believe there were several factors involved, including our reports of repeated Afternic security issues with their platform harming both registrars and domain investors who trusted them. Instead of … [Read more...]
PayPal terminates it’s relationship with Epik
It looks like PayPal has stopped doing business with domain name registrar Epik. A member at Namepros noticed they could not use PayPal and thought it was a glitch. Rob Davis replied writing a series of letters that are very well written addressing Paypal executives. You can follow this link and read all the correspondence Epik has sent out to the company. This decision by PayPal just … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – Epik 2019 Edition
Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at many companies so we are revisiting the good, the bad and the ugly. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also … [Read more...]
Should Epik just buy Namepros?
Rob Monster of Epik has become the most prolific poster on Namepros over the last couple months. Rob is embarking on a lot of different projects and is putting them all out there on Namepros to get feedback. Domain Microfinance Program As some folks here know, I am a big fan of Digital Empowerment projects that scale. Over the last year, I have seen lives transformed by people becoming … [Read more...]
Some registrars continue to markup your domains without your permission
Registrars are still marking up our domains without authority of any legal right to do so. So two years ago I wrote about a topic that had bothered me for years and Andrew at DNW had brought it up in a post and that got me to finally take the time to address the situation. Many if not most domainers add their names to Sedo and Afternic who in turn work with their distribution networks to … [Read more...]
Epik announces new and improved marketplace
Ala Dadan from Epik announced a new and improved Epik marketplace. Happy Friday All I'm pleased to announce the new design for Epik Domain Name Marketplace. if you didn't have the chance to view it yet, you could check it out here: https://marketplace.epik.com The new design is a significant improvement from the old Marketplace. While working on the redesign, our goal was to have a … [Read more...]