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.

 

[blogspotter]

Guys, do not forget that Rob is also a man, not robot. He can be busy. You don't have to remember Rob EXCLUSIVELY all the time if you mention the Epik company. You can also contact with me, if you have any questions.

All NP users by request can receive a special pricing for registration, renewal and transfer, if the promotion is not already running:

• .com - $8.49
• .net - $9.75
• .org - $10.60
• .info - $11.24
• .biz - $13.99

For receive this pricing, register on Epik.com and request a NP pricing in PM with me.



As a domainer, I understand your desire to get a lower price. But if you look closely, you register for $5 and renew for $17 in DomainRightNow. Check my image below.

You can register any number of domain in DomainRightNow for $5 and transfer it to us after 60 days for $8.50. 2 years for $13.50 with Epik against $22 in DomainRightNow.

Your choice.


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This is a total win. I also need this special namepros pricing. Never knew this

 

[Charley]

Guys, do not forget that Rob is also a man, not robot. He can be busy. You don't have to remember Rob EXCLUSIVELY all the time if you mention the Epik company.

I always PM Rob.

Even though he is busy, he responds to me courteously and promptly.

I like Rob.

 

[Ategy]

Not cool says who? I asked if they price match and provided them the proof. That's how it works.

Get some fresh air. It's not that deep.

No .. that's not how things work. What you're talking about is essentially saying it's ok to stand in front of somebody else's billboard with a big sign showing a sale at a different store.

Whether technically allowed or not, at the end of the day if everyone did that, then companies would simply stop putting up billboards .. which effectively means they will no longer come to namepros and offer promotions if they know all that will happen is that it will end up promoting other companies instead of theirs.

If there is a thread specific to a registrar and their promotions, then we should be thankful to people like @Rob Monster and companies like @epik, and respect their space here for sharing their promotions and sales. Maybe if they actually had some "lowest price guarantee", then what you posted could be in context, but as far as I know, no registrar can offer that guarantee indefinitely specifically because sometimes some registrars offer below cost promotions.

Even more importantly, if you really wanted to go out and ask registrars to beat the prices of other registrars, then simply be a little more tactful and send them a private message, or if you wanted to start a competitive pricing war, that's actually fine .. but then simply start a different thread open to all registrars.

Even worse is that at the moment Epik actually give all NamePros members registrations and transfers at what is essentially their cost. So what you've essentially done is come into their dedicated thread to publicly shame them into losing money for your benefit. At the end of the day .. yes .. that is very not cool. I can certainly see someone not thinking about that too deeply and posting what you did, but instead of realising what you did and apologising or maybe quietly asking a moderator to delete your post, you went and doubled down to justify what you did.

 

[kofte]

No .. that's not how things work. What you're talking about is essentially saying it's ok to stand in front of somebody else's billboard with a big sign showing a sale at a different store.

Whether technically allowed or not, at the end of the day if everyone did that, then companies would simply stop putting up billboards .. which effectively means they will no longer come to namepros and offer promotions if they know all that will happen is that it will end up promoting other companies instead of theirs.

If there is a thread specific to a registrar and their promotions, then we should be thankful to people like @Rob Monster and companies like @epik, and respect their space here for sharing their promotions and sales. Maybe if they actually had some "lowest price guarantee", then what you posted could be in context, but as far as I know, no registrar can offer that guarantee indefinitely specifically because sometimes some registrars offer below cost promotions.

Even more importantly, if you really wanted to go out and ask registrars to beat the prices of other registrars, then simply be a little more tactful and send them a private message, or if you wanted to start a competitive pricing war, that's actually fine .. but then simply start a different thread open to all registrars.

Even worse is that at the moment Epik actually give all NamePros members registrations and transfers at what is essentially their cost. So what you've essentially done is come into their dedicated thread to publicly shame them into losing money for your benefit. At the end of the day .. yes .. that is very not cool. I can certainly see someone not thinking about that too deeply and posting what you did, but instead of realising what you did and apologising or maybe quietly asking a moderator to delete your post, you went and doubled down to justify what you did.

Holy mackerel. How and where you pulled that from only you know.

I'm going to refer you to the second sentence of my previous post. Go outside and get some fresh air.

Life is beautiful. Toodles!

 

[Marka]

We were a bit spoiled by Epik last year, so I understand the frustration of less frequent promotions

Because if we as Epik customers follow what you say, then we should move all our domains out of Epik during the next good transfer promotion we see at another registrar.

This is a total win. I also need this special namepros pricing. Never knew this

Register on Epik.com and contact PM with me.

I always PM Rob.

Even though he is busy, he responds to me courteously and promptly.

I like Rob.

I like Rob, too. But don't forget that many companies hire people who help solve issues not directly with a fully engaged management, but with people who have access to some information that will help solve your problems. So if you have any questions, write to me and if Rob doesn't answer long.

 

[Charley]

@Sufyan Alani @Makise

Do you have promos for .co registrations at .99c ?

 

[Marka]

@Sufyan Alani @Makise

Do you have promos for .co registrations at .99c ?

Special prices provided in July 2020 for $0.99. We not receive from .co registry special prices for cheap registration. Follow the news and Epik threads on NP.

 

[Nitaky]

Any .COM transfer promo or coupon code please?

 

[Marka]

Any .COM transfer promo or coupon code please?

Not now. Sorry

 

[Haris]

Not now. Sorry

Hopefully Epik will have a great deal for .com on this years Black Friday

 

[Marka]

Epik offers a better and better service for domainers.
One of these services - is a very cheap registration.

All domains registered at Epik include:

1. Free SSL parking landers
2. Free forwarding
3. Free basic Wordpress site
4. Free listing in Epik Marketplace for selling/leasing

$0.99 .realty registration (for 1st year only) / no limits / limited time

Try Epik`s now - www.epik.com

 

[Compassion]

Any big .com transfer deals on the horizon?


...Or shall we hold our auth codes tight until Black Friday?


Wholeness and Optimism,
Chad

 

[Marka]

Any big .com transfer deals on the horizon?


...Or shall we hold our auth codes tight until Black Friday?


Wholeness and Optimism,
Chad

Black Friday is still a long way off

 

[mayhemalex]

Chat is not working for me, can someone please assist. Also no reply for several days from email support.

 

[Marka]

Chat is not working for me, can someone please assist. Also no reply for several days from email support.

Send details me in PM.

 

[mayhemalex]

Makise -

Please check your PM.

In messages you alluded to:

This domains locked, because he`s expired on our system. Its mean, in Whois data domains renewed up to 2021, but they are not paid for by you

Apologies if I do not understand. So when a domain crosses the 1 year mark and is "expired" (in grace) and is auto-renewed automatically, we are essentially charged for this should we want to "reactivate" or transfer away our domain elsewhere?

I have never encountered this. During the grace period a domain should be available for us to do as we please whether renewal or not.

In the last message I have sent you I have requested an auth code+unlock for a domain that expired 29/9. I understand your "grace" period is 2 weeks. This should be within that time. Please provide at your earliest.

 

[Marka]

Makise -

Please check your PM.

In messages you alluded to:

This domains locked, because he`s expired on our system. Its mean, in Whois data domains renewed up to 2021, but they are not paid for by you

Apologies if I do not understand. So when a domain crosses the 1 year mark and is "expired" (in grace) and is auto-renewed automatically, we are essentially charged for this should we want to "reactivate" or transfer away our domain elsewhere?

I have never encountered this. During the grace period a domain should be available for us to do as we please whether renewal or not.

In the last message I have sent you I have requested an auth code+unlock for a domain that expired 29/9. I understand your "grace" period is 2 weeks. This should be within that time. Please provide at your earliest.

Hi!

I will ask you to refrain from publishing your responses in private messages in public in the future, they are confidential and the only recipient is you, not the public.

As I previously stated in the correspondence:

After the domain registration period ends, if it was not renewed before the end of the domain registration period, the Registrar automatically renews the domain for 1 year, so that within 30 days the client can renew the domain that was renewed by the Registrar during the "grace" period. This gives you the opportunity to regain ownership of domains. This is a well-known practice and this is how all registrars in the .com domain zone operate. this is not a unique technology.

Since your domains are not registered in our system as "renewed", the Registrar, in accordance with the ICANN Statute, extended its registration period for 1 year so that you can return it within a 30-day period. Until the domains are paid for, we can't unblock your domains. You must extend the domain registration period and then request a transfer code.

 

[Samer]

Hopefully Epik will have a great deal for .com on this years Black Friday

Or Cyber Monday!

 

[tonyk2000]

This is a well-known practice and this is how all registrars in the .com domain zone operate. this is not a unique technology

It is correct.

Since your domains are not registered in our system as "renewed", the Registrar, in accordance with the ICANN Statute, extended its registration period for 1 year so that you can return it within a 30-day period. Until the domains are paid for, we can't unblock your domains. You must extend the domain registration period and then request a transfer code

It is not correct, sorry.

1. It was the registry who auto-renewed the domain name, not the registrar. The registrar did nothing.
2. The registry might block or otherwise withdraw the fee from the registrar.
3. Should the domain be deleted - the registry will refund the fee to the registrar.
4. Should the domain be transferred away - the registry will charge the gaining registrar for annual renewal, which thing already occured (at least formally). And the losing registrar will receive a refund. New expiration date with the gaining registrar will be just +1 year from its original expiry, not +2 years as one might guess on a spot view.

In other words, nothing prevents registrars from allowing to transfer expired domains away (if the domain in question is not yet deleted - not in RedemptionPeriod). The registrar has nothing to lose (execept that the renewal fee might be temporary blocked by the registry in this registrars account). It appears that some registrars (GoDaddy, Epik just to name a few) are using this to enforce renewals, or maybe they would rather prefer to auction the domain someday (if they offer expired domains to general public as pre-release ones).

On a side note, it might be more practical for @mayhemalex to simply renew the domain in question with Epik. Bulk/Professional pricing is reasonable @ Epik. After 45 days from the original expiration date, the transfer-away will add one more year to domain expiry. So, if the domain needs to be transferred away - then renew with Epik now, wait 45 days from the original expiry, pay the gaining registrar for transfer, and 1 more year will be added as the result (2 years in total - 1st year added by Epik, 2nd year added by the gaining registrar).

 

[Marka]

It is correct.


It is not correct, sorry.

1. It was the registry who auto-renewed the domain name, not the registrar. The registrar did nothing.
2. The registry might block or otherwise withdraw the fee from the registrar.
3. Should the domain be deleted - the registry will refund the fee to the registrar.
4. Should the domain be transferred away - the registry will charge the gaining registrar for annual renewal, which thing already occured (at least formally). And the losing registrar will receive a refund. New expiration date with the gaining registrar will be just +1 year from its original expiry, not +2 years as one might guess on a spot view.

In other words, nothing prevents registrar from allowing to transfer expired domains away (if the domain in question is not yet deleted - not in RedemptionPeriod). The registrar has nothing to lose (execept that the renewal fee might be temporary blocked by the registry in this registrars account). It appears that some registrars (GoDaddy, Epik just to name a few) are using this to enforce renewals, or maybe they would rather prefer to auction the domain someday (if they offer expired domains to general public as pre-release ones).

Thank you for clarifying. You are right, but just in case, I will clarify that in my message above, I simplified the entire scheme described by you so that users understand the meaning without unnecessary technical clarifications.

Even if you allow your last words ("nothing prevents registrar from allowing to transfer expired domains away"), Registrar will lose approximately $8 from each domain. Even taking into account the whole situation above, as a domainer with 10 years of experience, you also understand that domains must be paid for, the Registrar acts as a service provider and cannot provide services for free or provide exceptions for some users in violation of the rules of registry.