Epik.com Promo Deals and Happy Hour Mega-Thread

[Sufyan Alani]

Hello everyone,

I'm creating this post to keep you all informed of Epik.com Happy Hours!
Every day, we'll try to discount an extension and give you the chance to register & invest in this extension.

Today, we're featuring .US extension, and we're discounting it to $1.50 for new registrations starting now, and will be ON for the next 5 hours.

The following is a list of all domain names that have been registered previously before under .US, and are available one more time for registration: https://armored.net/index.php/s/t9rf2GLm4JktQWn

Remember, all domains registered at Epik include:
- Free WHOIS privacy
- Free SSL parking landers
- Free forwarding
- Free basic Wordpress site
- Free listing in Epik marketplace for selling/leasing

Here is also a link to ALL promos that we're currently running, in case you wanted to look into something different: https://www.epik.com/promos/

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Also, let me know what extensions you'd be interested to see featuring in our future Happy Hours! We'll do our best to accommodate all requests.

 

[thegeekguy]

For people who think they will regularly delete domains within the 5 day delete window, I recommend enabling a tasting account. This lets you delete in real-time and get a refund minus the ICANN fee. If you do manual deletes on a regular basis, it will cost $0.50.

The only catches with tasting accounts:

1. You have to remember to keep the domain before day 5. If you don't, it auto-deletes!

2. You should try to keep your keep rate above 75% so we don't get penalized by Verisign.

@Rob big fan of Epik but which registrar do I use for domain tasting(dynadot) ?

 

[Rob Monster]

@Rob big fan of Epik but which registrar do I use for domain tasting(dynadot) ?

How much do you pay for domain tasting -- the domains you taste and dump before day 5? I hear DD is charging $2 for that.

 

[Kingpin1966]

300+. It is done. Congrats.

Prices updated as promised:

$5.49 .com creates
$6.49 .com transfers

We'll honor this through September 30. Some day I will tell a story about it.

Thanks for such a deal, Rob!!
1100 domains transferred so far and at least another 100 to go.

 

[Rob Monster]

Thanks for such a deal, Rob!!
1100 domains transferred so far and at least another 100 to go.

Sure thing. I will tell the story some day down the road. But yes, we helped a lot of people this month.

 

[Samer]

Shout-out to epik, Everyone has different needs...

But for me, they’re the best in the business.

How businesses (regardless of industry) should be

 

[namey]

Anyone else getting errors when trying to activate barcode 2FA?

Authy says "format not supported" and the Google authenticator app says "format not supported."

 

[Gube]

Anyone else getting errors when trying to activate barcode 2FA?

Authy says "format not supported" and the Google authenticator app says "format not supported."

I'll take a look at it

 

[Gube]

Anyone else getting errors when trying to activate barcode 2FA?

Authy says "format not supported" and the Google authenticator app says "format not supported."

Can you try entering the code manually ?
Right click on the QR code showed on Epik.com
Open in a new tab
The code you will have to enter on your Google Authenticator app is at the end of the url, after %3D
So, if your url is ending by ...gubes1%3Fsecret%3D5ABCDEFGH12ABC3A
The code you have to enter on the Google app is 5ABCDEFGH12ABC3A
This is an example. Don't use this code, it won't work.

Gube,

 

[namey]

That worked for now thanks.

 

[getjimmy]

What will be price of .com domains starting Oct 1st?

 

[Mister Funsky]

What will be price of .com domains starting Oct 1st?

I am pretty sure they go back to the old pricing...as low as 8.10 if you prefund your account and you have contacted them to ensure you have/get that level of pricing as a namepros user.

 

[Rob Monster]

What will be price of .com domains starting Oct 1st?

We are still thinking about that topic. I believe it will be something like this for .COM from October 1 onwards;

$7.49 .COM transfers
$7.49 .COM creates
$8.49. COM -first come first serve no auction backorders
$8.49 .COM renewals

This is all-inclusive regardless of payment method. It is actually loss-making in the hard costs since we typically max out our Verisign rebate rather quickly.

Beyond this, we will run frequent happy hours at various time slots when a new "whale" arrives with 500+ .com arriving at a time where we are comfortable that they are planning to grow with Epik. This way everyone wins when another big domainrt moves to Epik. Win-win-win.

Three things:

1. In Q3, we got into some trouble with our resellers and wholesale customers. The $5.49 price (insane) was so low that it caused channel conflict for some of them.

2. We don't really want garbage registrations. The closer you get to $1, the more garbage you get. We don't want garbage registrations. It has zero after-market impact and causes auto-renew burden a year later.

3.We don't want to be on a registrar carousel. If someone is only coming for a cheap domain and not seeing Epik as their long term strategic ally and partner, we are not their registrar. Please rip off someone else!

We are all in this together. I believe we are heading into a new golden age for .COM. I can't say much for the other TLDs but we support nearly all of them. However for after-market speculation, it is a .com world.

 

[Mister Funsky]

$8.49 .COM renewals

PEASE keep the prefund at 8.10 for renewals.

If you want to do away with it, I would rather see a middle point between the new regs and renewals. Just make it an ideal marketing price point of 7.99 for either one.

 

[Rob Monster]

PEASE keep the prefund at 8.10 for renewals.

If you want to do away with it, I would rather see a middle point between the new regs and renewals. Just make it an ideal marketing price point of 7.99 for either one.

Yes, of course. Domains at or below cost -- no change there.

 

[CJ6]

Does the prefund cost count if you use Masterbucks?
If so, how can I get that?

 

[Rob Monster]

Does the prefund cost count if you use Masterbucks?
If so, how can I get that?

It does -- it just means Credit card and PayPal are disabled.

If you generate sales and leases at Epik and have renewals or transfers, just hold a balance and use the balance. And then you get $8.10 renewals. Genius but anyone can do it.

 

[private123]

@Rob Monster
Please continue next month same offer.

 

[Rob Monster]

@Rob Monster
Please continue next month same offer.

See my comments above -- especially about reseller channel conflict. We'll be doing it, but in a more targeted way, and especially clustered around the arrival of "whales". Anyone with 500+ .com to move is going to be doing the rest of the community a favor since we'll make it rain for everyone.

 

[jacktheson]

How to get the discounted price, is there any promo code?

 

[Gube]

How to get the discounted price, is there any promo code?

No promo code, simply add names to your cart and you'll get the promo pricing