Robert Monster is our Elon Musk

[Dream Domains]

Yes he is. Bringing innovation and working around the clock.

 

[Rob Monster]

It’s refreshing see CEO open, accessible like this.

Rob, particularly, i’m rlly excited about TrustRatings.

CEO of Epik.com, folks. Namepro members some of the cheapest.com prices, love this model, thank you!

We all know, this is a relationship-based business... little things matter. Thanks, for NOT hiking up .com rates $15+ like other big players... little things matter

No, I don’t work for Epik.

Thanks @Xabial.

TrustRatings.com is still in development but moving swiftly with 2 dedicated developers and a project manager who will also oversee some related ecosystem projects as they move from the lab stage to the development stage.

As for domain pricing, I think we'll stay aggressive on .COM pricing but also pass along deep savings from registry deals, e.g. as we did with $0.99 .CO in July that has delivered a lot of ROI for a number of folks.

As for tech, if it can be free, it will be free, e.g. free SSL, free Anycast DNS, free basic Wordpress, free SEO domain landers, and free worldwide fast Content Delivery Network are all examples of technology that we can make available for free or near-free.

Key for us is to keep our Operating Expenses down so that we can provide great value for money for our clients, while getting very good at supply chain and process automation so that value for money improves as we scale.

 

[Rob Monster]

I never said it didn't, I said there is not much going on there. There are already all kinds of YouTube alternatives. How do you plan to differentiate yourself? What are you bringing to the table that the others aren't? I just picked a random one - https://d.tube/

That one looks like it has more going on, yours looks like something I can get on Themeforest for Wordpress.

Us.Tv is in position for the accelerating YouTube purge. You can buy a Us.Tv domain on Epik today, and then run your own video channel on your own domain and still be in the PeerTube federation for easy of searching and sharing. The missing ingredient is a few large channels moving from YouTube.

It is good to be back in the Epik saddle -- I came back last August and have enjoyed having the engineering teams reporting into me. At the core I have always been a product development junkie, and I am delighted with how the various engineering teams are executing, cross-training and inter-operating.

The point is that we are creating more tools to make more domains useful. I tried to get the gTLD registries to do this with us, and to sell their domains as Forever domains, e.g. get a .VIDEO from Donuts and be instantly online with a PeerTube channel - Forever. I believe the registry operators will eventually realize I was right about this.