I felt sick when I searched that and found my info. There needs to be some repercussions from this.
Yeah, this is insane! How foolish can this "researcher" be? He seems like he's the bad stereotype of a computer programmer who has no sense of moral and ethical aspects and responsibilities.
Just because you have the technical capability of doing something doesn't mean that you should. It's bad enough that the info was in the hacked database (but difficult to see info), but it's even worse when this guy purposely puts it into a simple spreadsheet and publicizes it.
He's violating people's privacy by publishing details on
(doxxing) every single Epik customer... thousands of innocent people!
And almost 14,000 of the people (out of 24,000) on the list only have 1 domain with Epik. A lot are probably companies/people who simply bought a domain from someone else, and they happened to use Epik's sale system.
To the "researchers" reading this, you need to understand some important points:
As I detailed here:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/epik-had-a-major-breach.1252094/page-68#post-8408613
1) Most Epik customers (I would say 99%) are just regular people and companies.
2) Until about early 2019, I don't think Epik really even had any controversies. It was just considered another registrar.
3) People transferred or registered a lot of domains to/with Epik because of the low prices, excellent support, and the useful system they have for selling domains. Those were in place years ago, before the controversies in the past ~2 years.
4) And the #2 guy at Epik (Joseph) for years was actually a somewhat left-wing atheist (opposite of Rob). And I would objectively say that Rob and the staff are pretty nice in general interaction (the staff are also multicultural), so one wouldn't have expected how things went. But after the controversies started in 2019, that's apparently when Joseph left later that year. But a lot of customers already had a lot of domains at Epik by then.
5) And some registrars' control panels make it a hassle and a bit time-consuming to transfer domains out in bulk... and Epik is one of those. They're maybe average on that measure, but I think you have to do them one at a time, and that time adds up. That aspect is why there's a general tendency (at any registrar) for people to keep domains wherever they're already at.
...That's why I can see one example of someone who publicly parted ways with Epik, but still has a lot of domains there. And
I even see companies that have had public disputes (over a year ago) with Epik in the list, and yet even they still had domains there as of February.
...For bulk accounts that had the special "Namepros pricing", Epik only got 7cents in profit ($0.07) per .com domain renewal, so it's not like Epik was getting funded by those customers anyway.
6) Most people wouldn't know about Epik's controversies. I periodically visit NamePros, and I didn't even know some of the stuff I've read in this thread.
So frankly, publicizing people's private information is irresponsible -- especially when so many "researchers" have incited/created a confused mob by acting as if 90%+ of Epik's customers are neo-nazis, when those are just a tiny fraction
(any fraction is too big, but realize that the vast majority of customers are just regular people).
It reminds me of Timberland clothing -- it became a trend for "chavs" (basically UK riff raff) to wear it, but most people who wear it are just regular people. If a bunch of chavs do something bad, it doesn't make sense to list every single person who bought Timberland clothing!
(Also, for Twitterati reading this, I'm no right-winger saying that, I'm just pointing out some facts. I'm someone who considers even the US Democratic Party to be somewhat right-wing, as I also wrote months ago here too:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/br...h-of-his-domains.1230431/page-23#post-8191759 )
@Molly White You're the only one I've seen here (or at least who I remember) who is also active with the researchers on Twitter. So I hope you can relay this info to the guy who violated people's privacy by posting details on every single Epik customer. He's doxxing thousands of innocent people.
for those interested, follow the guy on twitter. He's doing some interesting research. Haven't verified it myself but a lot of it seems to match up with what I already knew.
