Quick thoughts here:
- Dan and Efty both have some great features and capable management. We know Dan particularly well, but also have some familiarity with Efty management. These are both capable innovators with capable entrepreneurs leading them.
- We would be delighted to provide escrow services for Efty and I did pitch that idea to Doron recently at the suggestion of some management.
- We routinely work with Dan to process transactions. I trust their fraud assessments and have never had a domain transaction go wrong with them as far as I can recall.
- Neither Dan or Efty are registrars. As such, it would make sense for them to hook into our APIs as this could make transactions more efficient for everyone.
- As for crypto, I think Dan does have this capability. We did go one step further and integrate natively in the checkout. We also run our own BTC servers which keeps costs down, transactions fast and also very private.
For escrow, Epik is a one stop shop and therefore a single counter-party. That reduces risk and means things get done quickly. We can often close transaction in less than 1 hour if needed.
Also, if customers already have domains at Epik, we can typically skip fraud checks because we already have a relationship with the seller.
However, again, all these guys are awesome and we like them just fine.
