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It happened on 23rd Aug 2022 and this matter lasted almost one month without any process. Masterbucks.com declined my fund withdrawal and disabled the button of fund withdrawal. And I contacted Epik.com and got no further action even if Rob Monster got involved in it for two weeks. All the time I was told in email by management review.

What is wrong with Epik.com? Do you think it is normal to disable fund withdrawal? How can I get back my fund from Epik.com? Thanks for your suggestion.

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Here are all the domains Epik owns. Sufyan Alani (the guy who resigned) sent me this list in October.

Their portfolio, minus 2 or 3 names, is complete horse sh*t. I even scanned the whole list for domains with any history or SEO value - nothing.
I think I have seen that list somewhere in the past. It is not real impressive.

What about domains owed by customers or partners though?

They seem to have no problem taking control of domains like Patterns.com from a customer or DNProtect.com from a partner.

What about the domains Rob personally owns? If he made this mess, those could be on the line as well.

Brad
 
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Here are all the domains Epik owns. Sufyan Alani (the guy who resigned) sent me this list in October.

Their portfolio, minus 2 or 3 names, is complete horse sh*t. I even scanned the whole list for domains with any history or SEO value - nothing.
A few prospective UDRPs in that list.

Regards...jmcc
 
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The registrar control panel would be on the registrar through which the ccTLD domain name was registered, Bob,
If the hoster (Epik) is not an accredited ccTLD registrar then it is either done via a "registrations as a service operator" (Tucows etc) that has an accreditation in the ccTLD or via a registrar in the ccTLD's country. The control over the domain names would ultimately remain with that registrar rather than Epik. I think that some of the ccTLD registrations may have been on Epik's marketplace rather than registered through Epik. I'd have to check back through the list of ccTLD registrars I compiled last May but I can't remember seeing Epik active in a lot of them.

The ccTLD registries tend to be a lot more proactive than ICANN and can move a lot quicker because they don't have the burden of being a large organisation.

Regards...jmcc

You're right but you would be using epiks backend to manage your domain rather than the accredited registrar they are reselling.

Depending on the ccTLD, you are not given a separate account at the real registrar. Suppose when it comes down to it you'd be awarded one. Or manage it directly at the registry, like .uk.

I dunno. Could get messy but like you said, the 'mature' ccTLDs have quite an efficient recovery procedure may you be needing it.

I would check but moved my ccTLDs out of there right after the hack.
 
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This is yet another claim, that I was not aware of.
They just keep coming....

Sold for medical treatment. Jobless from corona virus.

All of Epik's talk of co-abundance, rising tides, helping others, don't hurt people, and all the other positive stuff...

Yet another Epik victim.

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Here are all the domains Epik owns. Sufyan Alani (the guy who resigned) sent me this list in October.
An interesting list. Thank you @Kt88 !

Some observations:

I found only 7 .vc domains (St. Vincent and the Grenadines country code) in the list. Wasn't it Epik who actively promoted .vc as the next big thing (venture capital or something similar) some time ago, available exclusively @ Epik? If so, why Epik itself did not invest in .vc? 7 domains is nothing...

It appears that their domains are listed for sale via saw brokerage. SAW is of opinion that "At Saw.com we strongly believe in the importance of choosing licensed and bonded escrow companies to help protect your assets and your proceeds." ( https://saw.com/sell/ ). Epik might want to clarify / confirm that the sales income (if any) is used exclusively to pay masterbucks debts. However, it does not appear that $$$ value of the whole portfolio is sufficient to pay all the debts. Yeah, there are some saleable domains, at least Epik should have no issues finding wholesale buyers for some of their domains. The question is do they want to sell wholesale or are they waiting for retail buyers to submit million dollar offers to saw... A number of domains should be deleted or not renewed though (just imho, I did not perform detailed domain-by-domain analysis).
 
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The problem here is even one not being renewed in days is unacceptable.

You should just be able to pay for the renewal and be confident it is applied at the registry level, almost immediately.

Having to verify that on every domain should give anyone a certain level of unease.

I could never use a registrar where I was not confident about this, and have to check each domain to make sure the renewal was applied.

Brad
There wasn't a way to use those funds. Only 3 .ME domains are still pending renewal and had a few months away still from expiry. I would be transferring out as soon as 60 days completed from this renewal.
 
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I would be transferring out as soon as 60 days completed from this renewal.
ICANN 60 days rule does not apply to renewals afaik. If the domain is >60 days with a registrar, you should be able to renew and transfer-out immediately...
There is another potentially applicable (optional) waiting period though. If an expired domain was renewed - then, should it be transferred within 45 days after expiration - gaining registrar would not add 1 more year.
 
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Something curious. Epik has a presence in Africa as "Epik Africa Limited".
As per https://bgp.he.net/AS329015#_whois :

country: NG
address: 2/4, Oriade Omotosho Close
address: Alagbole, Ojodu-Berger, Ifo, Ogun 23401
phone: tel:+234-708-174-5613
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Contact persons are Marcelo Gonclaves, Robert Monster and Tony Blessed - all sharing the same address "No 2/4 Oriade Omotosho Close".

As per wikipedia, "An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain, that presents a common and clearly defined routing policy to the Internet.[1] Each AS is assigned an autonomous system number (ASN), for use in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing. Autonomous System Numbers are assigned to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) and end user organizations by their respective Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), which in turn receive blocks of ASNs for reassignment from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)."

No IPs are yet assigned to AS329015 though.
 
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he just said epik does not give auth codes
Yes they do. I have been pulling names out left and right. Do you guys have two factor on?
 
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Something curious. Epik has a presence in Africa as "Epik Africa Limited".
As per https://bgp.he.net/AS329015#_whois :

country: NG
address: 2/4, Oriade Omotosho Close
address: Alagbole, Ojodu-Berger, Ifo, Ogun 23401
phone: tel:+234-708-174-5613
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Contact persons are Marcelo Gonclaves, Robert Monster and Tony Blessed - all sharing the same address "No 2/4 Oriade Omotosho Close".

As per wikipedia, "An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain, that presents a common and clearly defined routing policy to the Internet.[1] Each AS is assigned an autonomous system number (ASN), for use in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing. Autonomous System Numbers are assigned to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) and end user organizations by their respective Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), which in turn receive blocks of ASNs for reassignment from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)."

No IPs are yet assigned to AS329015 though.
Actually, Epik is an accredited .ng registrar, but they use their Washington address, not the one in Nigeria:

https://nira.org.ng/business-directory/?wpbdp_view=search&kw=epik
 
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Epik makes it easy to transfer domains out when you have 2FA enabled.

I would be transferring more out but can't afford it all at once.

Would be nice if we got help selling some domains to fund transfers.
 
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Epik's Domain Graduate course ("Achieving Financial Independence with Domains") now has a For Sale lander as well.

An archived version of the course website is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220929211835/https://domaingraduate.com/en/
Another one for sale, Toki.com.

There is a delinquent business registration in Washington state for Toki Inc. with Rob as the governor.
It is unclear if this was owned by Epik or Rob personally.

Here it was before it was listed for sale - https://web.archive.org/web/20221111074823/https://toki.com/

Here Rob is talking about it - https://www.namepros.com/threads/update-on-erise-org-philanthropy-making-impact.1162664/

Brad
 
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There is also a registration in Washington state for "ERISE" as a nonprofit corporation with Rob as the governor.
That registration is also delinquent.

The domain they used eRise.org is also now listed for sale.

Archived link - https://web.archive.org/web/20220818100137/https://www.erise.org

The link in the post above with the information about Toki, also talks about eRise.org.

Brad
 
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@bmugford

By carefully following all the activities that Epik is destroying, it should now become clear what the company sees as its core business. What do you think it is?
 
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Something curious. Epik has a presence in Africa as "Epik Africa Limited".
As per https://bgp.he.net/AS329015#_whois :

country: NG
address: 2/4, Oriade Omotosho Close
address: Alagbole, Ojodu-Berger, Ifo, Ogun 23401
phone: tel:+234-708-174-5613
...

Contact persons are Marcelo Gonclaves, Robert Monster and Tony Blessed - all sharing the same address "No 2/4 Oriade Omotosho Close".

As per wikipedia, "An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain, that presents a common and clearly defined routing policy to the Internet.[1] Each AS is assigned an autonomous system number (ASN), for use in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing. Autonomous System Numbers are assigned to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) and end user organizations by their respective Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), which in turn receive blocks of ASNs for reassignment from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)."

No IPs are yet assigned to AS329015 though.

They liked messing about in Nigeria. The company is inactive though. Used to have Facebook Twitter but that's kinda dead along with their domain Epik.africa.
 
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They liked messing about in Nigeria. The company is inactive though. Used to have Facebook Twitter but that's kinda dead along with their domain Epik.africa.
I looked at the last (5) pages of TrustPilot reviews. It sure seems some countries are overrepresented like Nigeria. They have (10) reviews. India has (11) reviews.

Some others that seem over represented are Pakistan and Bangladesh.

While Epik still has several US debts, it seems like they are not prioritizing these foreign debts at all.
The US debts have far more potential exposure for Epik.

So, the sad thing is all these people Epik were supposedly trying to help, who are the least likely to be able to afford this type of financial hit, are left holding the bag.

Brad
 
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I looked at the last (5) pages of TrustPilot reviews. It sure seems some countries are overrepresented like Nigeria. They have (10) reviews. India has (11) reviews.

Definitely. They were actively targeting these regions. For obvious reasons I will not go into because it's way beyond the scope of this thread.
 
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I looked at the last (5) pages of TrustPilot reviews. It sure seems some countries are overrepresented like Nigeria. They have (10) reviews. India has (11) reviews.

Some others that seem over represented are Pakistan and Bangladesh.

While Epik still has several US debts, it seems like they are not prioritizing these foreign debts at all.
The US debts have far more potential exposure for Epik.

So, the sad thing is all these people Epik were supposedly trying to help, who are the least likely to be able to afford this type of financial hit, are left holding the bag.

Brad
All Rob talked about was empowering people in less affluent countries. Now some Epik customers in these countries cannot pay their hospital bills...

I guess the good news for Epik is that Bitcoin is at $23,000 now if they still hold some of these.
 
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All Rob talked about was empowering people in less affluent countries. Now some Epik customers in these countries cannot pay their hospital bills...
Yeah, it is pretty messed up when you come in as an agent of good (or God) to supposedly help the people in countries that need it the most.

Then instead of helping, you just create a trail of victims who are the least likely to be able to afford that loss.

Some of the reviews are heartbreaking. People owe money for medical bills, lost their jobs, are in war torn countries.

Epik "sold" a domain for @Kathleen Kalaf and gave her $91K in magic beans. This was money she was relying on for retirement.

@Igor Gabrielan from Ukraine is owed $55K.

Epik doesn't give a shit.

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All Rob talked about was empowering people in less affluent countries. Now some Epik customers in these countries cannot pay their hospital bills...

I guess the good news for Epik is that Bitcoin is at $23,000 now if they still hold some of these.
If they're still gambling on crypto at this point they're crazier than we think :)
 
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