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You were all me to get the group organised, so just tagging you all to make sure you didn't miss this.
@Rob Monster posted it 10 hours ago ... and there's now a little under 8 hours left! Get to it! lol
PS .. Thanks Rob
Sooo what's gotta happen to bring back the $5.99 promo back sooner?
Maybe a pledge of registration amongst members... 1,000 new regs?
To show we're serious and to assist with payment processing fee's, we could pre-load our accounts, and when 1,000 x $5.99 = $5,990 is deposited into epik, a 24 hour timer starts?
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@Rob Monster and Epik, if the marketing team needs justification, call it a customer education write off that will pay for itself over time. The education is incentivizing customers to learn how to, or at least perform the task of, pre-funding their epik account via epiks preferred way. This way, over time, the micro payment fee's per transaction will be reduced by volume, if customers were to either get used to, or the very least periodically be incentived to fund their accounts based off opportune timing such as RIGHT NOW!
CAPSLOCK RIGHT NOW to demonstrate urgency. While epik could happily coast as being just about the cheapest .COM registration for 2+ domains, due to no other better offers by legit registrars since the dynadot $5.99 October new reg promo ended. But if what I hear about epik is true, coasting is not their style? It appears they put the petal to the metal to push the boundaries and pioneer new innovation. Surely, in volume, reducing the amount of payment processing fees per transaction can help support innovations that need it most. So what do you say, help us help you throw some gasoline on the amount of new registrations epik gains this November by leveraging these short windows of opportunity to undercut the competition at a fair price. I say this, adding that despite epiks nP presence, and gaining popularity due in part to added features, epik still fell short to domains added on November 1st to Dynadot by a wide margin. Granted the below stats may not be true representations as it's for 11/1 and not 10/31, but I'm getting at both DynaDot and Epik were offering $5.99 domains.
From:
http://dailychanges.domaintools.com/new-domains/
This isn't accounting for a month over month daily mean baseline and I think it's solely based on nameservers, so there's likely a more accurate metric / source?, nonetheless, I believe, at least from my perspective, somebody looking to hand register at the best price with minimal headache, that their monthly $5.99 promotion in addition to their nP banner helped in no small part with customer acquisition. They will likely ride this wave from people like me, until another wave, perhaps created by a whale, decides to make a splash, and disrupt their newly created traction. e.g. The sooner the splash, the greater the impact, particularly pertaining to now being the vulnerable timing of domainers coming off just getting used to a $5.99 reg standard for an entire month.
Also in the above stats (and I don't know if that's the greatest measure for this, perhaps you can suggest a better site?), you will notice Dynadot getting far more transfers out, and epik transfers in which I think could be reflective to the whale transfer deals? Because I think both epik, dynadot, and namesilo are heavily supported by namePros members, and at least true in my case, I assume you are seeing a disproportionate amount of domains registered at registrars such as namesilo and dynadot being transfered to epik (because in part to epiks recent gaining of np community marketshare support and buzz) and when I say disproportionate, the theory is that in proportional respect to the amount of domains registered at those registrars compared to the amount registered at larger registrars such as godaddy. By scale, I assume you are acquiring more % of dynadot and namesilo than GD and the likes, which if so, would support and emphasize the dependence smaller registrars have on the domain community, especially when in growth mode.
We know $5.99 can't last forever, even when it had came to be expected. Nonetheless, since we got cut off cold turkey, I think you will find a large enough demand right now to justify the supply. It's similar to the feeling of being at a great concert, then it ends, and the crowd starts yelling encore, encore! The band has to go home, but another band seizes the opportunity and sets up shop in the parking lot. So even though the music stopped, the music never stops. And while most came to see one band, they ended up leaving with a new band. If new band decided to set up shop in the parking lot, the following day, even though it may be the most affordable concert around, there's another concert being played at a bigger arena, and the parking lot band wouldn't have gotten near the attention they deserved should they had set up shop the night before, after the headline concert.</ramble>