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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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Then essentially only someone at a very high level would have access to do this.

Do you know who would have access to these tools?

Is this like a CEO/COO level tool, or would it go down to others in operations, like a VP for instance.

I appreciate the valuable information you are providing here.

Brad
I didn't have that access unfortunately however this version of Masterbucks worked with a product manager and a small team of devs. They should have had admin access.
Then the CEO/COO most likely had it, and Lars had it as well.
I don't think any support staff member had the access, the support manager neither; But it's not entirely sure as I didn't have the access myself I couldn't have checked. I can just say this by how requests that involved that service worked internally.
 
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Again, Rob made this connection. I'm just quoting him. Please solve your issues with him.

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Notice the "what if".... that actually never happened and I wasn't aware that Rob ever made that statement. He never even brought up the subject with me, as I recall.
 
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How about the rightful Patterns.com owner as well?

Brad
The owner of Patterns is taking care of the issue by himself, at least that's my understanding. No need for me to get involved with that right now.
 
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The owner of Patterns is taking care of the issue by himself, at least that's my understanding. No need for me to get involved with that right now.
Excellent. I hope it gets resolved.

That was basically the flagship domain in their recent "portfolio sale".

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Could you provide the share breakdown, Bill?

Seems like you are another of Epik's victims.

Regards...jmcc
Sure, DNProtect was a project that I started with Rob Monster. 50 percent mine, 50 percent Rob Monster's. There is even an NP thread somewhere where Rob Monster discusses that it's a project between me and him.
 
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You can see where the confusion comes from. First 5 seconds of the video, it literally says:

DNProtect - an epik service

I agree with you there definitely could be confusion, Epik created that particular video. That doesn't change the ownership of the DNProtect entity/organization/project, though. It was marketing done at that particular time.
 
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I don't trust anything to do with Epik anymore.
I've used the FederatedIdentity.com sign in for years, now that has been taken down as of this morning and the sign in is id.epik.com.

You are assuming 2FA still works, even though others are having 2FA issues too.

I don't want to add any steps, as the domains should have automatically been transferred yesterday evening. Once this set has transferred automatically, I will try the 2FA option with my remaining domains at Epik.

But I don't trust Epik.
The only people who want "Centralized" login, what "federated identity dot com" actually is are feds and data salesman. The only thing worse than scammy naming is Orwellian naming.
 
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DNProtect was a project that I started with Rob Monster. 50 percent mine, 50 percent Rob Monster's.

Who owns and controls the domain dnprotect.com now?
 
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The only people who want "Centralized" login, what "federated identity dot com" actually is are feds and data salesman. The only thing worse than scammy naming is Orwellian naming.
When you have a company that suffered a massive data breach, with no real public explanation of how it happened, or what changes were made, having one potential failure point...

What could go wrong? :facepalm:

Brad
 
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Completely untrue from Brian Royce. Tony Blessed before he resigned said that the reason why domains were not getting renewed and transferred was because there was no credit for some extensions to be paid for.

He also said Epik staff were not getting paid on time.
 
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I spoke with one of the fired Epik employees yesterday and he was wondering exactly how @Michele Dinoia got robbed and wanted to talk to him.
 
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Completely untrue from Brian Royce. Tony Blessed before he resigned said that the reason why domains were not getting renewed and transferred was because there was no credit for some extensions to be paid for.

He also said Epik staff were not getting paid on time.

Still @bhartzer thinks it's all speculation:

5. That's just speculation on your part, no one knows if they will fail to be renewed due to lack of funds.
 
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It's also disappointing for DomainNameWire to be a mouthpiece of Epik propoganda despite the mounting evidence of illegality on all fronts.
 
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Hard to follow what this thread is about, but has anyone got paid out from this Masterbucks, I have funds sat there for two weeks saying "Pending" I tried calling but no answer, is this a legit business or just some russian way to defraud people? Like how long is it supposed to be "pending" for?
 
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According to Brian, "All domains are renewing, the purchase of new domains is happening, and the customer can buy and sell domains without issue".

Selling without issue - should it be understood that they are paying marketplace sellers for new sales? Somewhat unexpected...
Yeah, and Brian has never been one who is known to lie... :ROFL:

I added some comments to that blog post -

Maybe Brian could answer these –

1.) How did the domain Patterns.com come into Epik’s ownership?

2.) Why were 4,000+ domains moved from Epik to Key Systems towards the end of January?

I have seen some reports of a portfolio sale, but no confirmation. This transfer included Patterns.com.

There have also been reports from customers that their domains might have been included in this transfer. We are still trying to dig through that.

3.) If this was a portfolio sale, where did the funds go? I have not seen many reports of existing customer debts being paid.

For instance the reported $1.5M owed to Domain Empire, or the $91K to Kathleen Kalaf for the Candida.com sale that DNW reported on. You took $100K for that domain and stuck her with $91K in Masterbucks, or magic beans which can’t be withdrawn.

This sale happened well after Rob was replaced as CEO. Brian reportedly asked Kathleen to settle for $50K. That is just ridiculous.

4.) How much is actually owed in total customer debt. Does Epik even know?
Just from reports, it is in the millions.

5.) Who is even left working at Epik after the exodus of employees?

I never saw you respond to the $20K in Masterbucks that was removed from former employee May Chen’s account.

6.) There have been many reports of renewals not being applied for weeks at the registry level and the funds being returned in store credit.

Even more troubling, this reportedly lead to some of the domains being sold at Name Liquidate because the renewal was not applied.

Brian Royce seems way over his head, and a noob in the domain field.

Brian, feel free to stop by the lengthy NamePros thread about this debacle.
You might learn something.

Brad
 
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It's also disappointing for DomainNameWire to be a mouthpiece of Epik propoganda despite the mounting evidence of illegality on all fronts.
I have a lot of respect for @DomainNameWire and Andrew, but I agree that publishing something like this is not helpful in any way.

If you want to report the story, you need to do a little more due diligence and research on what is actually going on.

To allow Epik to simply dismiss the seriousness of these issues in a couple paragraphs is ridiculous.
You need to ask the actual hard questions, like I just did in the blog post.

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I have a lot of respect for @DomainNameWire and Andrew, but I agree that publishing something like this is not helpful in any way.

If you want to report the story, you need to do a little more due diligence and research on what is actually going on.

To allow Epik to simply dismiss the seriousness of these issues in a couple paragraphs is ridiculous.
You need to ask the actual hard questions, like I just did in the blog post.

Brad
I put another comment there -

Andrew,

No disrespect, but this article is not helpful IMO.

It simply allows Brian to dismiss the very serious issues going on in a couple paragraphs.

I asked specific questions that need to be answered. So far, Brian Royce refuses to answer any of these.

You also should really link to the NamePros thread that details the actual depth of these problems –

https://www.namepros.com/threads/th...pik-com-via-masterbucks-wallet.1284050/latest

Brad
 
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It's also disappointing for DomainNameWire to be a mouthpiece of Epik propoganda despite the mounting evidence of illegality on all fronts.
Would you rather not hear what's being said?

It simply allows Brian to dismiss the very serious issues going on in a couple paragraphs.
That in itself says a lot.
 
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Notice the "what if".... that actually never happened and I wasn't aware that Rob ever made that statement. He never even brought up the subject with me, as I recall.

So who did Rob have the "discussion" with...?

There is discussion to add the DNProtect.com warranty feature with $10,000 of loss protection as well. Great product, by the way.

There seems to be a lot of tip-toing around. Or only speak up when or if it serves somebody involved. A good starting point for DNProtect, or Bill, or Rob, or Epik, Or Brian, or Whomever was behind DNProtect, is to start helping the registrant of Patterns.com. In the name of DNProtect, that registrant was clearly bent over, and yeah, epik did the rest.
 
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So who did Rob have the "discussion" with...?



There seems to be a lot of tip-toing around. Or only speak up when or if it serves somebody involved. A good starting point for DNProtect, or Bill, or Rob, or Epik, Or Brian, or Whomever was behind DNProtect, is to start helping the registrant of Patterns.com. In the name of DNProtect, that registrant was clearly bent over, and yeah, epik did the rest.
I personally have been in touch with David Cochrane, the owner of Patterns(.com). He's taking care of the issue with his own legal counsel, so at this point there hasn't been any need for me to help him get his domain name back.
 
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