I'd rather post my opinion here (mainly general thoughts about Epik), rather on ''neighbors threads'' which for the most part is filled with hate, gloat, speculations, unproven info and just a bunch of bullshit. To me, it's best to divide the whole problem in three parts:
1) How good Epik is as a platform
2) How good is their security
3) Rob's political and religious believes (simply because it's a huge ''thing'' for many, all of a sudden)
1. Epik is an awesome platform to work with. Easy to manage names, comfortable import-export, lots of statistics (views, Who.is, Alexa, PageRanks etc), different parameters to check across and categorize. Then there are awesome landing pages that you create in minutes, there is a marketplace which you can use as your website basically, there are NameLiquidate auctions, appraisals (for those who need) and other features. I've been with 5 other registrars (still with some), but none of them come close in terms of ease and comfort of managing names. Their customer service is outstanding, even though I don't have to go to them a lot, soon you realize you know all these guys by names, chatting pretty much like with an old friend to many.
Is the above said a reason for me to stay? Yes, absolutely.
2. How good is (was) Epik's security? They got hacked, it's a fact. That can happen to anybody. Could they do better to prevent it? We don't know it in fact, but it's possible, and now it seems as an extremely obvious thing to me that the security measures will be raised to an absolute maximum for this not to happen again. And do we really know how other registrars keep their information, and what are the odds for leaks and hacks there? We assume just because we don't hear lots about them that their systems are secured well, but we have no idea about it in reality.
So, emotions aside (''how could they....!!! Epik Fail....!!!), isn't Epik's ''lesson learned'' the reason to stay? My answer is again ''yes''.
3. Rob Monster's beliefs. That's the most entertaining part for me, I personally wouldn't care less even if he preyed on Carl Marx, but for many folks his conservative views is a red rag to a bull here. There are clearly people that are against his views, others complain that he is mixing them with business.
I only talked to Rob a couple of times (heard no ''Heil Hitler!''greetings, I swear!) and saw a few interviews, but it very much seems to me that he really and truly supports the idea that EVERYBODY has the right to be heard as long as it does not break the law. In other words, if someone is IamAnIdiot.com, and other registrars are like: ''he is an idiot, we don't want him'', he's point is ''hey, if you come to me, you can show you are an idiot from here, you have the right to do so''. But this position nowadays unfortunately makes you a target. It is a fundamental problem for our society (that becomes more and more totalitarian), which simply wants to silence certain views, while heavily promoting others, that way too many people/companies/groups are just being labeled (thus being ''cancelled'') for exposing different opinions.
Staying for what you believe openly now is a revolutionary act, which only shows what kind of perverted world we are living in.
To sum the third point up: do his beliefs affect my decision to keep domains with Epik? No, not a single bit. But on a personal level I like people who stand for what they believe is right, regarding conjuncture and pressure.
So, 3-0 for me in favor of staying.