Discuss your Epik Experience!

[Dandelion]

I think Epik is building the best ever Domain Lander in the history of domaining, and it really needs to be talked about extensively. That's why I am creating this discussion thread. A lot of thought process really goes into the project. And I can see (for the first time) a landing page that is built from the stand point of domainers rather than for just the marketplace itself.

Everything you have ever dreamt of getting or seeing in a professional landing page can be found in the new Epik marketplace landing page design.

Some of my Favorites Features:

1. The ability to optimize your "domain for sale" landing page to actually rank on Google, displaying your sales pitch/domain description. I just did that with few of my generic domain names such as ASAP.TV, targeting certain keywords, and they are showing pretty well on Google. That's a huge plus in my marketing effort.

2. Being able to change background image is another huge one for me. If you are good with pictures and images, you will surely find this very useful. I did that with Nagasaki.org and the result was truly amazing, showing the city of Nagasaki right at the background.

There are too many positive features and I don't want to mention all of them, all alone

So I am leaving you guys to share and discuss what you loves most or dislike about the new Epik marketplace and the landing pages.

The only negative for me is the checkout process. There are too many terms and conditions buttons to tick before checking out. It will be nice if they can streamline those into one beautiful big button

They also need to place the checkout button directly under the payment options. Right now it is awkwardly place somewhere below at the sidebar, which I don't find cool at all.

Sales experience is also welcomed in this discussion. I haven't had any sells so far at Epik because I started using the marketplace just recently, but the future is looking so bright.

 

[7363824]

Very easy to follow instruction. Thanks. However, after I set up two domain profiles and applied them to some domains, the dashboard does not show me which domain profile is applied to which domain, which is necessary when I'm managing a lot of domains. In a broader sense, it would be wonderful if the dashboard can be customized.

Namesilo's domain manager has a sortable Portfolio column which is very useful.

Or, is there any way you can group domains on the dashboard? This would be a better option for me.

You could apply tags that coincide with the domain profile chosen. Then filter by tag.

 

[Kassey Lee]

You could apply tags that coincide with the domain profile chosen. Then filter by tag.

Can you point me to instructions on how to create and apply tags in Epik. I tried to google this topic but in vain.

 

[7363824]

You you can click the tag icon on the right hand side or under the Organize menu if you want to do bulk operations.

 

[Kassey Lee]

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You you can click the tag icon on the right hand side or under the Organize menu if you want to do bulk operations.

Just found it. Thank you! Now I can start organizing my domains.

 

[7363824]

Just found it. Thank you! Now I can start organizing my domains.

Great. Tags are good for any sort of arbitrary grouping you may want to make. Personally I use them to group domains into pricing tiers to make bulk marketplace edits easier.

 

[Kassey Lee]

Personally I use them to group domains into pricing tiers to make bulk marketplace edits easier.

Thanks for your suggestion, I've been playing with tags for an hour. This is what I have done. Please comment.

Since the default domain profile does not include tag, I created a "grouped" tag and applied it to all my domains in Epik. When new or transferred domains come in, I can simply use the filter to exclude "grouped", leaving me with the new domains to work on.

Within the "grouped" domains, I use the "epik-ns" tag to group higher priced domains which use Epik sales lander, and "afternic-ns" tag to group lower priced domains which simply point to Afternic's ns3.afternic.com and ns4.afternic.com nameservers.

Tag is a great feature. It helps me organize my domains for easy management. There is one feature I wish to have. The filters have an advanced tag field where you can enter multiple tags using "and" and "or", but no "not". It would be wonderful if I can specify something like "grouped and epik-ns not domain-forward".

 

[7363824]

Thanks for your suggestion, I've been playing with tags for an hour. This is what I have done. Please comment.

Since the default domain profile does not include tag, I created a "grouped" tag and applied it to all my domains in Epik. When new or transferred domains come in, I can simply use the filter to exclude "grouped", leaving me with the new domains to work on.

Within the "grouped" domains, I use the "epik-ns" tag to group higher priced domains which use Epik sales lander, and "afternic-ns" tag to group lower priced domains which simply point to Afternic's ns3.afternic.com and ns4.afternic.com nameservers.

Tag is a great feature. It helps me organize my domains for easy management. There is one feature I wish to have. The filters have an advanced tag field where you can enter multiple tags using "and" and "or", but no "not". It would be wonderful if I can specify something like "grouped and epik-ns not domain-forward".

Yeah I do the same with having a basic tag, I chose "ForSale" that I apply to all domains once I do what needs to be done so I can quickly sort yo Exclude that tag to see what new names are in my account and need to be processed.

I do love the idea for allowing advanced tag searches using NOT. Perhaps we could get @Rob Monster to get that on the development roadmap, I suspect that should be simple enough to get added.

 

[dAvo]

Tony - The prices drop hourly and bottom at $9 with a 9% sales commission. I have seen some names get sniped already but there are some bargains in that mix.

So how do we get into the featured lists?
We might have some “real” diamonds to offer to the Epik lovers

 

[Kassey Lee]

Yeah I do the same with having a basic tag, I chose "ForSale" that I apply to all domains once I do what needs to be done so I can quickly sort yo Exclude that tag to see what new names are in my account and need to be processed.

I do love the idea for allowing advanced tag searches using NOT. Perhaps we could get @Rob Monster to get that on the development roadmap, I suspect that should be simple enough to get added.

Thanks Ryan for all your help. As I move more domains to Epik, management becomes critical, and tag is a great feature. I agree and think adding "not" should be easy to implement.

 

[Sumeeth]

Thanks Ryan for all your help. As I move more domains to Epik, management becomes critical, and tag is a great feature. I agree and think adding "not" should be easy to implement.

Thanks @Ryan217 for your quick help to our colleague @Kassey Lee . Helping the respective colleagues by giving your time, effort & your opinion on different features is greatly appreciated. I've added help article for Tags feature @ https://epik.com/support/knowledgeb...ains-and-use-them-for-filtering-domain-names/

Thanks once again for your pro-activeness & helping each other.

Regards,
Sumeeth

 

[Namersen]

I've added help article for Tags feature @ epik.com/support/knowledgebase/how-to-create-or-add-tags-for-epik-domains-and-use-them-for-filtering-domain-names/

It would be nice to have the Tabs functionality in the custom portal use the Tags functionality in the domain manager somehow, now you'd have to re-list the domain for sale if you want to re-assign it to different Tabs.

 

[tonyk2000]

@Rob Monster - in a number of cases (not for sale domain, or just regged domain where spam is expected) - the following whois output would be great. This is what for example Tucows and all their registrars are showing. For all domains and for all registrants (not exclusively owned by EU residents). Must be compliant with ICANN policy, as it is in use:

Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant State/Province: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Country: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin State/Province: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Country: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech State/Province: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Country: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY

Can such a thing be offered (completely opt-in)?

 

[Rob Monster]

@Rob Monster - in a number of cases (not for sale domain, or just regged domain where spam is expected) - the following whois output would be great. This is what for example Tucows and all their registrars are showing. For all domains and for all registrants (not exclusively owned by EU residents). Must be compliant with ICANN policy, as it is in use:

Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant State/Province: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Country: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin State/Province: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Country: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech State/Province: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Country: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY

Can such a thing be offered (completely opt-in)?

Interesting request -- the option of opting in for Total privacy. We have free WHOIS privacy proxy, but in a post GDPR world we even can just obscure it completely and still be regulator-compliant.

The irony is that we are about to release Phase 1 of the ambitious WHOQ.com program in order to solve the opposite problem -- making it easy for verified domain owners to be reached.

Anyway, will discuss with @Ala Dadan and @vitigo about introducing an additional WHOIS privacy option called "Redacted Privacy" where all info is completely obscured for those who actually LIKE it.

I think you might be the first domainer who actually owns domains that he does not want to be contacted about every by anyone. Fascinating.

 

[Rob Monster]

It would be nice to have the Tabs functionality in the custom portal use the Tags functionality in the domain manager somehow, now you'd have to re-list the domain for sale if you want to re-assign it to different Tabs.

First of all welcome, I see you are new here at NP.

@Ala Dadan is working on the redesign of the custom portals, including to make them more mobile-friendly. I was personally inclined to sunset that development because our Domain Stores initiative was already good and getting better. However, for the folks who really want to go "off the reservation" with their own branded portals running on their own domain, they is a place for it. This might need a dedicated thread since there will be a lot of opinions about what goes in that upgrade. @DnFolk may have some input.

For those who don't know what this is about, see here:

https://www.epik.com/solutions/marketplace/

https://epik.com/support/knowledgebase/creating-and-managing-a-custom-marketplace-portal/

Anyway, that area will get a refresh during early 2020. If folks have recommendations on the most impressive execution of a customizable domain marketplace, happy to review that input. Feel free to PM or start a thread if anyone wants to be the customer champion of our next iteration of a custom domain marketplace and co-create something remarkable.

 

[tonyk2000]

I think you might be the first domainer who actually owns domains that he does not want to be contacted about every by anyone. Fascinating.

My business domains - they are not for sale. My new domains - not for sale within the first 60 days (I always want the buyers to be able to select their preferred registrar and be able to transfer, less complaints... and the sale is not urgent if the domain is a fresh handreg). Just a few examples

 

[Rob Monster]

My business domains - they are not for sale. My new domains - not for sale within the first 60 days (I always want the buyers to be able to select their preferred registrar and be able to transfer, less complaints... and the sale is not urgent if the domain is a fresh handreg). Just a few examples

I get it -- this is new but I like embracing niches.

There are guys who want forever domains and forever hosting. We help them like no other.

There are guys who want do leasing and crypto escrow. We help them like no other.

There are now guys who want to be digital hermits. We'll help them too.

Thanks for the inspiration. Once this is live, please inform your tribes. This should be very quick to deploy.

 

[Namersen]

First of all welcome, I see you are new here at NP.

@Ala Dadan is working on the redesign of the custom portals, including to make them more mobile-friendly. I was personally inclined to sunset that development because our Domain Stores initiative was already good and getting better. However, for the folks who really want to go "off the reservation" with their own branded portals running on their own domain, they is a place for it. This might need a dedicated thread since there will be a lot of opinions about what goes in that upgrade. @DnFolk may have some input.

Thanks for welcoming me, nice and select crowd over here at NP.

Is your Domain Stores initiative at the URL marketplace.epik.com/seller/<MARKETPLACE NAME>, or somewhere else?
And yes, Google Search Console complained of the portal not fitting well on mobile screen, and about the MBs of downloaded scripts, never too late to show some love in these areas if you think of keeping offering the custom portals, I didn't know it might deprecate.

 

[xynames]

Epik and the Monster were very he’pful allowing me to list my domains (about 1500) in the Epik Marketplace and facilitating the bulk upload and minimum price setting. Thank you Epik!

I see no reason not to list in all non-exclusive marketplaces. I maintain my own For Sale landing pages on my own website.

 

[alcy]

i list on all marketplaces. there is no such thing as too much exposure for our domains.
what will sell ultimately depends on domain quality... but for the average domainer with average nonpremium domains, imo he should post on as many markets as possible.

gd performs best for me for offers and sales... oddly, i think i never really had any offers or sales on epik... maybe if i redirected my sale landers there things would be better.. but at same time, i do not do redirects to gd landers either.

it appears that not so much trafic may pass through epik marketplace? I am not sure... but gd does seem to be winning hands down in terms of trafic and exposure of their marketplace browsing.

perhaps epik could find additional ways to bring more visitors to their marketplace?

i find similar situation with Dan.com... where very few offers come in just from marketplace browsers... it gets bit better with redirect to their landers, but not really.... so now i only resort to using dan for lead imports at 5% which works usualy well... domainagents is bout same... sedo bit better ... and im very annoyed by price requests from afternic that go nowhere... so i aways make sure to list directly on godaddy first.. so i deal with afternic as little as possible....though of course i list there too.

of course things can get real messy and timeconsuming and sometimes plain dangerous (lol) if u own many names and set bin prices on all markets. so I keep all my 1500 names and shrinking folio to makeoffer only for now.

in fact this thread and post reminded me to update my market domains on epik just now. its been a little while i think.

 

[oldtimer]

Just a suggestion:

It would be nice to have an option for 'Date Added' in addition to the 'Created' , 'Renew By' , and 'Expires'. That way we can sort the domains by the date that they were imported to Epik so that we can work on the most recent domains that need to be organized or optimized.

IMO