Epik.com - Let's do the point (An advice to all victims)

[DomainEmpire.com]

Hi all,

The world already know about our story at Epik, we had 4 accounts there (at Masterbucks) and they stole us a total of roughly US$1.5M (Ref. Domainnamewire.com) but I'm now bringing to your attention some new facts.

I think they're desperate now and nothing will save them from bankruptcy though Rob Monster had apparently converted several million dollars to cryptos and hidden such funds during the fake 'Maintenance stage' of Masterbucks started at the end of September.
Nobody was able to login so he gained time to steal everything and as Brian Royce admitted, we can now see our balance but it's just a virtual number considering there're no moe funds in the company account.

Now the situation is degrading and we're in presenc of serious criminal abuses here !

I heard some noises regarding premium domains stolen from the legitimate registrant accounts but I didn't believe that to be honestly ... till few days ago when something similar happened to us.

We had still two domains in escrow with them with a scheduled payment plan (buyers were paying under monthly installments).
Last October we asked our buyers to stop submitting payments and simultaneously in November asked to Tony Blessed (Epik project manager) to release both domains to the buyer accounts (at our own risk) and to consider both transactions successfully closed.
It's important clarifying Epik deducted its full escrow fee with the first payment.

Well, in a first moment they ignored our request and fraudolently charged one of our buyers for his monthly installment though he had previously asked to stop his monthly charges.
He asked for a chargeback (and it's important clarifying Epik is stealing all incoming payments so nothing has been withdrawn from us).
At this point Tony Blessed said to have received the order NOT to allow this domain to get transferred.
Yesterday we discovered they've posted it for sale in their marketplace. Wow, this's the top of their abuses, they're starting to sell their customer assets to recover a bit the company situation but such things won't lead for sure to a positive ends for these scammers !

That's not all ! What about the second domain in escrow ? The other buyer stopped paying for it as per our request but Epik refused to release the domain to him. Why ? Tony said he has no more access to the domain ...
what nonsense stories ! Every day a different version of facts ...

Ok, let's work all together to stop them once for all in the interest of the whole industry that they're seriously affecting and heavily damaging.

1. Let's start by reporting all domain abuses to Icann so they'll soon loose their accreditation:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/complaints-2013-03-22-en
We've already submitted a complaint of course.

2. For all Dot Com related issues, drop a further email to Verisign : abuse (at) verisign.com
Already done our part

3. Send a complaint to the competent entity for any other TLD for whom they're preventing you a transfer, a renewal or your freedom to manage them by seriously violating your rights.

4. Why not starting to contact their hosting providers to let them know how these scammers are taking advantage of the assigned IPs ? I know perfectly they're using their own servers but someone is allowing them to use the associated IPs and in presence of these criminal acts, there's no reason to refuse stopping them with immediate effect.

We should basically find any possible way to stop all their activities as quickly as possible because there're every days new innocent victims affected by their activities !

 

[topdom]

This is about Epik marketplace, not all of Epik. I mean, can we lose a domain at Epik which was not/never listed at Epik marketplace: hope not.
I was scammed at Epik as well, I mean, it is not about payout, and it might be accidental, and not intentional, but anyway they owe me, and I proved it, but they still pretend they don't owe me.
The main problem with Epik minus Epik marketplace is delays in registrations, renewals, and refunds (sometimes).

 

[franka46]

https://LowEndTalk/discussion/18301...t-provider-here-is-under-financial-mess-drama

 

[DNabc]

As far as the domainer base being the least profitable, I think it is partially true. For instance, if you own 5,000 domains they might be barely making anything on the renewals.

However, related revenue is much higher. Those 5,000 domains are generating sales commissions.

It also provides a steady stream of expired domains they can sell.

The companies that don't realize that domain investors feed the ecosystem are extremely short-sighted, and ignore them at their own peril.

With GoDaddy's recent moves from can see they understand that domain investors are a core part of their business model. All those Afternic and Dan sales commissions add up.

Brad

It's like you said, a registrar has more income streams besides renewals. Expired domains, escrow, web hosting, backorders, interest on loans, etc. Once you bring a client into the ecosystem, especially one used to spend 6-figures a year... well, that has value. More than some troublemakers with one domain and sometimes no other service.

 

[Reallybigidea.com]

I wouldn't expect Brian Royce to do much to help.

Money charged twice domain not registered. 12 hours ago.. Because domainers are not Epik friends?..

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Maybe you should stop using them then.
Or quit domaining then you dont fall under domainer category
I think this brian is just a finger puppet, this is all a distraction to buy time so epik can cover their tracks.
Seems like yesterday we were waiting for the big day Oct10, but was actually 4 months ago.
Still cant believe this has dragged on with no consequences except trust pilot reviews.

Whats really amazing is rob’s pro status here at namepros and epik still has 29 reps
This may drag on longer than the AD thing, me thinks

 

[bmugford]

Whats really amazing is rob’s pro status here at namepros and epik still has 29 reps
This may drag on longer than the AD thing, me thinks

Yeah, I can't believe NamePros has not taken action on this yet.

I created a thread about it.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/removing-outdated-staff-badges.1286286/

For the sake of the community, it is probably past time that NamePros takes action.

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Brad

 

[branding]

Yeah, I can't believe NamePros has not taken action on this yet.

I created a thread about it.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/removing-outdated-staff-badges.1286286/

For the sake of the community, it is probably past time that NamePros takes action.

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Brad

End of the year... We're kinda closing in.

Curious to know what the verification process was in the first place if it's that hard to remove those badges.


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[frank-germany]

EpikSucks.com is taken but
EpikSuck.com and
EpikScam.com are available

Rob.Monster

yes, that's a domain
for sale

 

[frank-germany]

the lord's own registrar

 

[Reallybigidea.com]

Its almost 4 days as order has been submitted money charged dotcom domain not registered yet.

Support :
Unfortunately, we are facing an issue with some extensions, one of them .COM. This problem is affecting registrations, renewals, and transfers.

Management and the engineers are already working on a solution with the registry and as soon as the issue is fixed, registrations, renewals, and transfers will be complete.

The issue should be fixed in the next few days

The most slowly domain registrar in industry and domain history.

 

[GoKaizen]

Any updates?

@DomainEmpire.com

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I missed this thread, thanks for sharing

 

[Mister Funsky]

So, is the OP one of those that got paid in the 'shuffle'?