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Hello everyone,

I'm creating this post to keep you all informed of Epik.com Happy Hours!
Every day, we'll try to discount an extension and give you the chance to register & invest in this extension.

Today, we're featuring .US extension, and we're discounting it to $1.50 for new registrations starting now, and will be ON for the next 5 hours.

The following is a list of all domain names that have been registered previously before under .US, and are available one more time for registration: https://armored.net/index.php/s/t9rf2GLm4JktQWn

Remember, all domains registered at Epik include:
- Free WHOIS privacy
- Free SSL parking landers
- Free forwarding
- Free basic Wordpress site
- Free listing in Epik marketplace for selling/leasing

Here is also a link to ALL promos that we're currently running, in case you wanted to look into something different: https://www.epik.com/promos/

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Also, let me know what extensions you'd be interested to see featuring in our future Happy Hours! We'll do our best to accommodate all requests.
 
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Thanks Kassey.

We'll do aggressive happy hours for .COM from time to time, especially when large domain investors decide they want to make a move. We can then budget for it with the folks at Verisign since they require these money-losing promos to be funded up front.

As for other TLDs, our policy is to work with the registries to provide domain investors with a one year window to achieve exceptional returns through arbitraging cheap domains into end-user sales and leases. I believe our SSL landers are key there.

And by the way, I did note your thoughtful LinkedIn article here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beauty-short-domains-sub-branding-kassey-lee/

Thanks to Frank Meester for bringing it to my attention. I don't actually think he is active on NamePros but he is another nice guy in this industry and who apparently does not miss much when it comes to domain industry news.
I will forward him this page ;)
 
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Hi @Rob Monster , Any .com offer today at Epik?

Thanks,
Sumeeth
 
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Hi @Rob Monster , Any .com offer today at Epik?

Thanks,
Sumeeth

Nothing today. We are waiting for another big whale to decide that it is time to come to Epik and then we'll offer the same bulk deal for everyone. Folks with 500+ .COM domains to bulk transfer can get the party started for everyone!
 
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Hi Rob,
Please let me know the next time that you do a .co special! Very interested!
 
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Hi Rob,
Please let me know the next time that you do a .co special! Very interested!

@Sufyan Alani is organizing one. It will be a flash sale but not as good as the ridiculous $0.99 deal we did with Neustar twice during July as part of their anniversary sale.
 
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That's great! Please let me know as when you decide to publish it. I will be waiting!
 
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Thanks Rob, registered two .coms just now!
 
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Thank you very much. Just registered one.
 
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Some folks here liked the economic post earlier. You might also take note of this other HISTORIC development:

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The 30 Year US Treasury Bond now yields less than 2% for the first time EVER. The entire US Yield curve is now under 2%.

I have a tip for you guys. Buy a lot of domains related to gold, silver and precious metals. I think that market is about to bust loose.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greats...-everywhere-gold-just-hit-new-all-time-highs/

You don't have to be an economist to see what is happening.

I own GoldRefinery.com. I expect a very nice payday from it eventually, but hoping the domain market heats up.
 
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Well I went a little overboard "saving" money and snagged 25 nice names I've been saving up - Ouch!
 
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Anyone else experiencing it holding up on search and never yielding if domain available?
 
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Anyone else experiencing it holding up on search and never yielding if domain available?
It was working fine for me 3 minutes before your post.

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Yes, still working fine for me 4 minutes after your post. Hope your issue clears itself soon.
 
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It was working fine for me 3 minutes before your post.

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Yes, still working fine for me 4 minutes after your post. Hope your issue clears itself soon.

Happy Hour went a little longer than planned, but we'll do another later in the week when the next whale shows up with a bulk .com transfer order.

All systems normal tonight. We continue to make speed improvements to the search/register process. Marketplace and escrow updates are coming soon.

And broad multi-language and multi-currency version of the Domain Manager is right after that. I am sure there are a few folks here that will appreciate that.
 
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Happy Hour went a little longer than planned, but we'll do another later in the week when the next whale shows up with a bulk .com transfer order.

All systems normal tonight. We continue to make speed improvements to the search/register process. Marketplace and escrow updates are coming soon.

And broad multi-language and multi-currency version of the Domain Manager is right after that. I am sure there are a few folks here that will appreciate that.

when can we transfer bulk with discount prices again? Rob
 
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As soon as someone has a large load of .COM to transfer we'll open the $6.99 COM transfer again for a few hours. We normally open up the Happy Hour for folks moving or bulk buying 500+ .com domains at a time, however, if any NP member has 100+ .com to bulk transfer, just PM @Sufyan Alani or I and we'll open up the happy hour for everyone.
 
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As soon as someone has a large load of .COM to transfer we'll open the $6.99 COM transfer again for a few hours. We normally open up the Happy Hour for folks moving or bulk buying 500+ .com domains at a time,

I don't have a large portfolio, but I am just curious as to how the big portfolio transfers like 5000 or 10000 or even 50000 domains to Epik are handled as far as handling all the Auth Codes and approving all the emails by the portfolio owner. (just curious)
 
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I don't have a large portfolio, but I am just curious how are big portfolio transfers like 5000 or 10000 or even 50000 domains are handled as far as handling all the Auth Codes and approving all the emails by the portfolio owner. (just curious)

Fair question. Bulk transfers are done here:

https://www.epik.com/transfer

FOA verification emails are no longer required as GDPR trashed all of that when registrants had their WHOIS emails hidden.

As a result, the bulk transfer process is quick these days and relatively painless for most registrars. The DNS is inherited by default.

WHOIS privacy is also free and enabled by default though you can set custom domain profiles if you like. See here:

https://www.epik.com/support/knowledgebase/how-to-create-and-apply-domain-profiles-to-domains/

For some registrars, notably NetSol, the only real pain is in retrieving the auth codes. We provide a free transfer concierge service to manage that task.
 
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Missed again.. You posted it at 1 o'clock.
I think I'm going to prefund my account and play with the api next time :xf.grin:
 
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Missed again.. You posted it at 1 o'clock.
I think I'm going to prefund my account and play with the api next time :xf.grin:

Now, there is a clever idea -- an API for checking domain prices and then running queued batches when the happy hour starts.

If you do code that, perhaps put it in Github as open source

Some big API upgrades are coming soon -- marketplace and escrow API commands.

Also, a nice preview of the new marketplace here:

https://stagingmarket.epik.com
https://stagingmarket.epik.com/officetarget.com
https://stagingmarket.epik.com/premium

Might go live today actually.
 
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It looks good :)
Just a few things to update
- The contact owner text is going out of the button (1)
- On mobile, It would be great if the Make an offer box was just under "own this domain today" (2)
(For domains with a payment plan, It looks really good)

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