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I think Epik is building the best ever Domain Lander in the history of domaining, and it really needs to be talked about extensively. That's why I am creating this discussion thread. A lot of thought process really goes into the project. And I can see (for the first time) a landing page that is built from the stand point of domainers rather than for just the marketplace itself.

Everything you have ever dreamt of getting or seeing in a professional landing page can be found in the new Epik marketplace landing page design.

Some of my Favorites Features:


1. The ability to optimize your "domain for sale" landing page to actually rank on Google, displaying your sales pitch/domain description. I just did that with few of my generic domain names such as ASAP.TV, targeting certain keywords, and they are showing pretty well on Google. That's a huge plus in my marketing effort.

2. Being able to change background image is another huge one for me. If you are good with pictures and images, you will surely find this very useful. I did that with Nagasaki.org and the result was truly amazing, showing the city of Nagasaki right at the background.

There are too many positive features and I don't want to mention all of them, all alone :xf.grin::xf.grin:

So I am leaving you guys to share and discuss what you loves most or dislike about the new Epik marketplace and the landing pages.


The only negative for me is the checkout process. There are too many terms and conditions buttons to tick before checking out. It will be nice if they can streamline those into one beautiful big button :xf.cool:

They also need to place the checkout button directly under the payment options. Right now it is awkwardly place somewhere below at the sidebar, which I don't find cool at all.

Sales experience is also welcomed in this discussion. I haven't had any sells so far at Epik because I started using the marketplace just recently, but the future is looking so bright.
 
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I like the rent+option lander. I've been going back and forth with a buyer who likes to test drive a domain for a new brand/product. I set up the lander for a 12-month rental but the buyer wants longer period. I found it easy to change the details and update the lander immediately. The buyer has asked his lawyer to draft a contract but now I just told him to visit the lander and see the standard Epik agreement. Hope I can seal the deal soon.

A question on Epik whois. I've been using https://whois.epik.com/ to monitor two domains, which expired recently. I notice Epik whois first showed them not available but could be backordered for $199 per domain. Today I checked and the prices have both dropped to $8.49. What does the change in price mean?

For NamePros members, .COM backorders are $8.49. So likely you are logged in and are seeing your Professional rate rather than the retail rate.
 
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This is my first experience using the rent+option lander. Thanks @Rob Monster for this great feature. 1st monthly rental of $100 in my Masterbuck a/c. The buyer just started the 36 month rental with option to buy the domain for 5 figures any time during the period.
 
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For NamePros members, .COM backorders are $8.49. So likely you are logged in and are seeing your Professional rate rather than the retail rate.
How does Epik know if I'm a Namepros member or not? To enjoy such unknown "perks".
 
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How does Epik know if I'm a Namepros member or not? To enjoy such unknown "perks".

Write an email to [email protected] and tell them you are a member here and give them you membername and you will recive the discounted pricing they offer NP users
 
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Write an email to [email protected] and tell them you are a member here and give them you membername and you will recive the discounted pricing they offer NP users

That works.

Don't worry though, the hazing ritual is not too harsh.
 
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This is my first experience using the rent+option lander. Thanks @Rob Monster for this great feature. 1st monthly rental of $100 in my Masterbuck a/c. The buyer just started the 36 month rental with option to buy the domain for 5 figures any time during the period.

Yes, the leasing and financing tools are really slick and robust.

Also, your clients have a great experience because the company they are paying to use the domain (Epik) is also the registrar for support. The result is a seamless one-stop-shop.

We manage all of the remindering, payment processing and tech support. If you do a purchase option that is also all through the control panel.

We see transactions like this one all day long:

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I need to verify via TXT record for squadhelp whitelabel market. Please what should be my input into the priority and host box?
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@Rob Monster

I noticed you guys switched to the new login for anonymize today and I got notice by email all Epik services will be using the new Federated Identity login shortly.

Does his mean my identity is shared across all Epik services and subsidiaries now? Just asking out of privacy concerns.

Knowing you guys you probably have that covered but still. Login looks nice and works smoothly though.
 
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@Rob Monster

I noticed you guys switched to the new login for anonymize today and I got notice by email all Epik services will be using the new Federated Identity login shortly.

Does his mean my identity is shared across all Epik services and subsidiaries now? Just asking out of privacy concerns.

Knowing you guys you probably have that covered but still. Login looks nice and works smoothly though.

It is all Epik Holdings, Inc -- the same Terms of Service.

Federated Identity is just a wholly owned business unit of Epik.

The full rollout kicks off tomorrow, Tuesday morning US time:


It means that once you login at Epik, you will also be logged in at Masterbucks, NameLiquidate, etc. These are all just faces/brands of Epik but running on unique domains.

It would be like having Microsoft Office but being able to launch Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

This is the biggest thing we have ever done, and it is actually designed to prevent security vulnerability because your identity exists in one place rather than replicated across many.

I think people will love it, especially Masterbucks 2.0 which goes live tomorrow which should blow people away. It is my favorite project of 2020.
 
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It is all Epik Holdings, Inc -- the same Terms of Service.

Federated Identity is just a wholly owned business unit of Epik.

The full rollout kicks off tomorrow, Tuesday morning US time:


It means that once you login at Epik, you will also be logged in at Masterbucks, NameLiquidate, etc. These are all just faces/brands of Epik but running on unique domains.

It would be like having Microsoft Office but being able to launch Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

This is the biggest thing we have ever done, and it is actually designed to prevent security vulnerability because your identity exists in one place rather than replicated across many.

I think people will love it, especially Masterbucks 2.0 which goes live tomorrow which should blow people away. It is my favorite project of 2020.

Thank you! Sounds promising. I think I noticed FI about a year ago but it looked like a dead project. Good to see you didn't abandon it and were working on it behind the scenes! Good luck on the rollout. Lots of good upgrades/changes lately. Thanks.
 
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Thank you! Sounds promising. I think I noticed FI about a year ago but it looked like a dead project. Good to see you didn't abandon it and were working on it behind the scenes! Good luck on the rollout. Lots of good upgrades/changes lately. Thanks.

There is a long story there.

I have been working on Single Sign On Identity projects since 2007. The technology is not the hard part, though that is price of entry. The hard part is creating a sufficiently large cohort of compelling use cases with which to create critical mass.

If you look at the example of Auth0.com, they have now raised $330 million selling SSO solutions. And yet almost nobody has heard of them. That shows you how wide open this opportunity remains. So, we'll start with domains and then, Lord-willing, feather out.

You will see some very slick partner integration solutions, e.g. I would like to see parking companies pay customers daily via Masterbucks, and allow customers to tether their verified PPC stats to domains in a way that is easily verifiable.

So, WHOQ.com provides verified ownership, verified stats, and the ability to both message and transact with the owner of that domain regardless of which registrar they are using, all driven by the registrant,

In short, the concept of an industry operating system is unfolding and we could not be more excited.
 
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I'm having issues logging into my epik account under the new FederatedIdentity.com login. Probably using old login credentials. Still waiting for the password reset email.

How do I revert back to using: https://registrar.epik.com/auth/login ? with my old epik.com username/password credentials? I don't want to use federatedidentity.com. Is there a way to opt out?
 
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I'm having issues logging into my epik account under the new FederatedIdentity.com login. Probably using old login credentials. Still waiting for the password reset email.

How do I revert back to using: https://registrar.epik.com/auth/login ? with my old epik.com username/password credentials? I don't want to use federatedidentity.com. Is there a way to opt out?

Still waiting for the password reset link.

At this point, I'm starting to wonder if disabling old epik login and forcing legacy customers to use FederatedIdentity.com to sign on to Epik is even legal.

I don't see FederatedIdentity.com mentioned in epiks ToS.
 
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I am "successfully signed out" every time I visit epik and checking "remember me" on logging back in doesn't do a thing.
 
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The hard part is creating a sufficiently large cohort of compelling use cases with which to create critical mass.

If you look at the example of Auth0.com, they have now raised $330 million selling SSO solutions. And yet almost nobody has heard of them. That shows you how wide open this opportunity remains. So, we'll start with domains and then, Lord-willing, feather out.

So is the play here to pad your FederatedIdentity SSO userbase by forcing the existing epik customer base to use FederatedIdentity to help create critical mass? Is there an opt out? And did legal sign off on this?
 
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Still waiting for the password reset link.

At this point, I'm starting to wonder if disabling old epik login and forcing legacy customers to use FederatedIdentity.com to sign on to Epik is even legal.

I don't see FederatedIdentity.com mentioned in epiks ToS.

For what it's worth,I didn't have to create a new login but I do share your concerns whether this is even legal to roll out for existing accounts. Especially for those in the EU, I see some issues.
 
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For what it's worth,I didn't have to create a new login but I do share your concerns whether this is even legal to roll out for existing accounts.

So your old epik.com login credentials worked on the FederatedIdentity.com sign in?

I tried saved login data (saved in chrome browser) from a previous FederatedIdentity.com experience.

My saved credentials that I previously used on the epik sign in were also saved in my chrome browser. But seeing how I was no longer on an epik.com page, that chrome saved username/password didn't auto populate.
 
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So your old epik.com login credentials worked on the FederatedIdentity.com sign in?

I tried saved login data (saved in chrome browser) from a previous FederatedIdentity.com experience.

My saved credentials that I previously used on the epik sign in were also saved in my chrome browser. But seeing how I was no longer on an epik.com page, that chrome saved username/password didn't auto populate.

Yes it worked. I tried to login to anonymize recently and had to submit my profile details again, using FI.

Afterwards my old login credentials seem to be working across all platforms. I don't use saved password etc in chrome, I don't trust anyone ;)
 
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Logged in for first time at federated identity using epik login info. everything worked fine
 
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Logged in for first time at federated identity using epik login info. everything worked fine

Logging in is not an issue (for me), but when I log in checking "remember me", and get back half an hour later, I'm greeted with an empowering
You are successfully Signed out!
 
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For what it's worth,I didn't have to create a new login but I do share your concerns whether this is even legal to roll out for existing accounts. Especially for those in the EU, I see some issues.

FederatedIdentity.com is wholly owned by Epik Holdings, Inc which owns the registrar you all are using. The point of this is to solve the problem of interoperability across the fast-growing federation of Epik services. These services can now come online much more quickly and leverage not only one login but one wallet and one checkout across services that domainers will appreciate. Some examples:

- Epik.com: Registrar and Host
- Masterbucks.com: Cloud wallet for domain investors
- Anonymize.com: VPN and WHOIS privacy proxy
- NameLiquidate.com: Domain liquidation marketplace
- DomainEquity.com: Peer to peer Domain Lending
- DNProtect.com: Domain Risk Scoring and Insurance
- DNEncrypt.com: Intermediate Root Certificate Authority for SSL/TLS
- WHOQ.com: Universal WHOIS registry
- TrustRatings.com: Rating and review service

I suggest to check out Masterbucks.com. It is really elegant.

More in the kitchen here:

https://www.epik.com/about/labs/
 
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I suggest to check out Masterbucks.com. It is really elegant.
Masterbucks is great! I've been using income from my first lease option to buy more domains. Wonder if you can use Maserbucks at other places such as Godaddy and other marketplaces.
 
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