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.

 

[timestamp]

My experience was few days before expiration, but 90 days? Wow! I dare users to vote for epik for best registrar again.

 

[dirk]

My experience was few days before expiration, but 90 days? Wow! I dare users to vote for epik for best registrar again.

Yes, most probably 90 days as the domain in question was not to expire untill early June.

Edit: I wouldn't really mind on bigger sales but when you're liquidating for $50-$100 a forced renewal to keep it at Epik is quite the markup for a buyer.

 

[alcy]

well in the end a forced anything does suck.

it's like sedo asking seller to renew name b4 transfer if it expires less.than 30 or 60 days of now...I forget which one.

in either case why do it if we can easily trnasfer name all way into 30 or so days past expiry

but tos is tos they say

 

[dirk]

well in the end a forced anything does suck.

it's like sedo asking seller to renew name b4 transfer if it expires less.than 30 or 60 days of now...I forget which one.

in either case why do it if we can easily trnasfer name all way into 30 or so days past expiry

but tos is tos they say

True. It is what it is... No biggie. It works fast and flawless so that's also worth something.

 

[doofer]

AArrgghh ! Trying to log in only to get

Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.

when I click on sign in !

 

[topdom]

Expired cert?

Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from .... (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more
NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID
Subject: *..com
Issuer: DNEncrypt SHA2 DV SSL/TLS [Run by the Issuer]
Expires on: Feb 9, 2021
Current date: Mar 10, 2021

(looks like grace ended, redemption started (j/k))
( initially I suspected this could be a new wave of censorship)

(Edit: looks like this thing has been fixed.)

 

[dirk]

Anybody knows how to send MasterBucks directly to someone else? The send button doesn't appear in my account.

 

[NicTraders]

Anybody knows how to send MasterBucks directly to someone else? The send button doesn't appear in my account.

AFAIK it can't be done yet. It will be great when it can be...

 

[dirk]

AFAIK it can't be done yet. It will be great when it can be...

Ok, thanks. That would make life much easier dealing with MB. Would probably cost them sales commissions so they're probably not in a hurry .

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Sometimes I see delays up to 10-30 seconds to open my parked domains or Epik website...
Please recheck your nameservers, CDN and uptime overall... Somewhere is bottleneck definitely.
Or you live under permanent DDoS???

 

[BradWilson]

Sometimes I see delays up to 10-30 seconds to open my parked domains or Epik website...
Please recheck your nameservers, CDN and uptime overall... Somewhere is bottleneck definitely.
Or you live under permanent DDoS???

Yes, I was about to post the same thing.

Something has definitely changed recently and not for the better.

@Rob Monster can you please have your team check on this?

 

[dirk]

Yes, I was about to post the same thing.

Something has definitely changed recently and not for the better.

@Rob Monster can you please have your team check on this?

Maybe they're using OVH

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2021/03/ovh-cloud-datacenter-destroyed-by-fire/amp/

 

[Rob Monster]

Maybe they're using OVH

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https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2021/03/ovh-cloud-datacenter-destroyed-by-fire/amp/

Thankfully there was no critical dependence on OVH. That is pretty tragic what happened there -- an estimated 3.6 million websites went down, many with no off-site backups.

As for the page load time, it is about 1 second to render the page, which is not bad. We'll see where the gaps might be regionally.

If folks see specific optimization areas, of course we are never too proud to ignore great advice.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Rob, bottleneck is BEFORE page loading starts...

 

[dirk]

Thankfully there was no critical dependence on OVH. That is pretty tragic what happened there -- an estimated 3.6 million websites went down, many with no off-site backups.

As for the page load time, it is about 1 second to render the page, which is not bad. We'll see where the gaps might be regionally.

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If folks see specific optimization areas, of course we are never too proud to ignore great advice.

Thanks. Good to know. Kept me busy all day, most I'm hosting will failover to hotspares but there's always people not keeping remote backups etc. I think they need to replace about 10K servers. Don't envy them

On topic, from EU, NL I'm experiencing the occasional slow loading of the website/login or some errors being thrown at me but that usually doesn't last more than a couple of minutes.

 

[Rob Monster]

Rob, bottleneck is BEFORE page loading starts...

That sounds like localized issue with Anycast DNS resolver. We'll have @Miao and @vitigo review. We actually just signed up this morning for this service:

https://www.dnsperf.com/

They have 300 POPs so that will give us a really good sense of how the DNS is performing around the world.

DNS is absolutely core and mission critical. It will not be outsourced and must be resilient and world class.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I guess, your BitMitigate must be benchmarked as well...

 

[Rob Monster]

I guess, your BitMitigate must be benchmarked as well...

The CDN is constantly being benchmarked and monitored. We view this technology as also mission critical for digital resiliency. It is core because it gives a few things:

1. The ability to conceal origin IPs which is essential for security -- I suspect some OVH Strasbourg customers found this out the hard way but I digress...

2. The ability to optimize network paths while encrypting data from end to end, including proprietary VPN for encryption at origin.

3. The ability to filter or avert malicious code, surveillance code, packet sniffing, etc.

Also, as the future Toki.com project takes root, you could imagine a scenario where there might be potential for millions of CDN nodes. That is the other reason why CDN is core.

 

[Future Sensors]

@Rob Monster

Have a look at https://ring.nlnog.net/ and see the participants list. It's a great way of debugging and performance measurement on all levels.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I already had even a few NXDOMAIN errors...
So ~95% that bottleneck is DNS related.