Congrats, I disagreed with Epik for allowing coronavirus domains on their platform, but to be fair to Rob he always trys to explain his way of thinking, always there to help people on this forum no matter who they are and gives great advice.
I don't have an account with Epik and have all my domains with NameSilo, I've never had a problem with them so felt no reason to change, but will give Epik a try at some point.
It’s not about allowing corona virus names or not allowing them, it is about Not censoring what people can, and cannot register. Maybe we should ban all hand sanitizer, mask, and toilet paper names as those are exploited products right now? So if you want to create a site, or have a mask domain dating back 10 years, should you be banned from selling it?
Does an open register really have a right in this manner, if the free market feels it is offensive they will show their displeasure by not purchasing it, simple as that. When you start to micro manage what you can ban, and what you cannot ban, you loose a free, and open internet. At the end of the day common sense should always prevail, but people have a right to agree, and disagree.
I believe Epik has taken the stance they will let the free market decide how it wants to respond. The party profiting from all this is really Verisign.
If you want to know the difference between namesilo, and Epik there are many... Epik has more extensive payment plan options. Namesilo 7 day wait for payout, Epik 0 days. At Epik if you sell a name, you can use those funds right away to purchase more names, or fund another deal. Epik has a quicker crypto checkout, and better crypto payout options, and timeline.
Epik has one of the most broad payment options I have seen from any company in this space. I don’t think namesilo accepts Alipay, do you know how helpful that is with many payment limited Chinese buyers, who are willing to spend decent prices on names, and with more factories and products than anyone, need good branding for them.
These few little things can make the difference between being successful, and not successful in this industry. For any domainer to be successful they need the right selling tools, and if you can’t give your clients, and yourself options, you can’t make the right sales. In the early days you know how many great deals I missed out on because I had to wait 15-30 days to get paid? Timing is everything in this industry, a single day can mean the difference between a windfall, or another 5 years of renewals on a dead domain.
Also I am not bashing namesilo they have made some strides being a newer player in the space, but when another company has limited options, and another has broad, it only makes sense to go with the latter.