Best posts by jmcc
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How to save Epik
Epik has a substantial number of domain names according to the latest (September 2022) ICANN registry reports. They tend to renew at the approximate rate for most retail US registrars. Epik has targeted a part of the market (domainers) that is highly mobile and can shift registrars quite easily...- Points: 31
- Post #10
- Section: Domain Registrar Reviews
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
ICANN will reply that it can do nothing about it because .TV is a ccTLD and ICANN only deals with gTLDs. You would need to complain to the .TV registry directly. The registry for .TV is Godaddy ( https://registry.godaddy/compliance-abuse-monitoring ). Regards...jmcc- Points: 29
- Post #6,928
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
At this rate, Netflix is going to make a movie about this. :) Regards...jmcc- Points: 26
- Post #7,267
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
It is a serious worry, Brad, Every gTLD registrar that I have dealt with has an automated process that updates on payment. Some of the registrars using auto-renewal will often invoice and charge a month or more before the renewal date. There are grace periods. The Auto Renew Grace Period is 0...- Points: 26
- Post #3,579
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
It isn't a linear domain names per day model because a lot of Epik's registrations and transfers were bursty in nature. There would be a burst of inbound transfers and new registrations closely linked to the promotions that Epik was running at the time. The other part of this is that there's a...- Points: 25
- Post #7,035
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
This is not legal advice and I am not a lawyer but based on the number of domain names and their value, this seems to go way beyond a class action suit. Regards...jmcc- Points: 23
- Post #4,246
- Section: Advisories
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discuss Who Was the First Domainer Who Pioneered Domaining?
In the early 1990s, quite a few people were registering domain names and then selling them. I don't think that anyone had even coined the phrase "domainers" back then. The domain names in .COM/NET/ORG were free until 1995 and ISPs were only just taking off along with the DotCOM bubble. In terms...- Points: 23
- Post #16
- Section: General Domain Discussion
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
ICANN only acts within the registry-registrar agreement (RRA). The problem for Epik is that it gives ICANN the nuclear option of terminating a registrar's accreditation and the breach notice has a clear indication that it will be escalated to a termination if Epik doesn't solve all the problems...- Points: 22
- Post #7,375
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
The scale of the underestimation of the market complexity by Digital Town was amazing (just rereading some of the articles on DNW). It isn't the true-believer angle on new gTLDs that was the problem. It was that lack of knowledge of the domain name landscape and the problems of developing and...- Points: 22
- Post #6,922
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
ICANN updated the registry reports early. These are the preliminary figures for Epik for September 2022 (202209). Total domains: 792,554 (.COM 653,159 ) Total new: 10,364 Total renewed: 57,622 Deleted (no grace): 12,009 Transfer gain: 11,193 (.COM 9,964) Transfer loss: 15,976 (.COM 15,149 )...- Points: 22
- Post #3,582
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
Processing the latest ICANN reports now. Just from the .COM report for Epik: Total .COM : 552,798 New one year regs: 2,436 (all new .COM regs: 2,548) One year renewals: 23,970 (all .COM renewals: 24,290) Transfer gains: 1,117 Transfer Losses: 29,449 (Dec 2022 figures: Total: 593,229; New1...- Points: 21
- Post #6,704
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
It doesn't matter that you disagree. That's how the domain name business works. A mature registrar makes more money from its renewals than it does from its new registrations. The number of .COM registrations according to the February 2023 ICANN report was 164,460,010. The number of transfers was...- Points: 20
- Post #8,786
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
The ICANN registrar reports, even though they are delayed by three months, show that Epik is renewing some domain names. The expansion of the auto-renew grace period seems to be to aid Epik's cashflow by spreading the fees they would have to pay the registries over a longer period. Instead of...- Points: 20
- Post #7,042
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
These are the 01 February 2023 figures for epik.com: .com: 222,126 .net: 12,503 .org: 1,4858 .biz: 902 .info: 3,926 .mobi: 142 .asia: 64 new gTLDs: 47,148 .uk: 1,263 Most of its registrations are off-registrar hosted meaning that they don't use the registrars main nameservers. This would...- Points: 19
- Post #4,829
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
To put it diplomatically, Epik may have been creative with the phrase "domains under management". It will have some ccTLDs and may be including domain names on its marketplace. Epik is a pipsqueak compared to Godaddy. Most people looking at Godaddy only see its domaincontrol.com and cashparking...- Points: 19
- Post #4,828
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alert Epik Had A Major Breach
Just reading some of the commentary about the WHOIS data on Twitter. It seems that some of those covering the story don't realise that WHOIS data (at least prior to May 2018) was largely public. Many of the e-mail addresses in the scraped WHOIS records would already have been public. What makes...- Points: 19
- Post #941
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
I'm not sure that that would have solved any problem. The limiting factors for ICANN accreditation are the financial requirements and access to a line of credit. The software is only a small part of it. There are some companies that provide consultancy and at least one, Logicboxes, that...- Points: 18
- Post #10,154
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
Ironically, Epik is an independent registrar. There's been a lot of consolidation in the registrar business and some of the larger operations like Godaddy and Newfold Digital have many different registrar accreditations. Epik's problem is that it is in a very competitive part of the market (low...- Points: 18
- Post #9,919
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
No compliance with the ICANN identification requirements yet? Regards...jmcc- Points: 18
- Post #8,028
- Section: Advisories
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alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
Just checking these figures again but these are the gTLDs totals for Epik from the October 2022 ICANN registry reports: Epik, Inc. IANA-ID 617 Year/Month: 202210 Total: 780,296 Change: -12,258 New: 10,942 Renewed: 38,559 Deleted: 11,330 Transfer Gain: 2,548 Transfer Loss: 15,339 The...- Points: 18
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