Tag Archives: epik

Wed 20th July 2011
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Alexander from Intrust Domains Sure Does Get Around - Yes, they must be North America’s largest spammers. Intrust Domains [intrustdomains] was aquired by epik.com (CEO Rob Monster) and the spam operation is continuing under the GoName.com brand.. The spam emails now usually come from alex@______.com in various formats with changing quotes in the message various sender addresses in an attempt to defeat the spam filters. This is a recent example… Notification for Availability of Similar Domain: We thought we would let you know that debt_______.com ... read more ...
Thu 14th July 2011
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Epik Acquires Domain Name Registrar IntrustDomains - Company acquires domain name registrar with a checkered reputation. Epik has acquired domain name registrar IntrustDomains for an undisclosed account. In a blog post, Epik founder Rob Monster explains that the acquisition will provide a number of services for managing your domain name assets. In addition to registering domain names, Epik customers will get access to a self-service backorder system. They will also be able to manage their domains at other registrars ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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Epik Releases Upgrade to Its Product Portals - Site creation tool releases improvements geared to more content. Epik has released an upgrade to its product sites dubbed Product Portals 3.0. The latest version is designed to offer more content on product sites, which is of course critical to search engine placement. Users can now create full articles using an article editor as well as import content from other sites. (So far content can only be imported from ArticlesBase.com.) The content module includes a scheduler ... read more ...
Mon 27th September 2010
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Pay for TRAFFIC Conference with Your Domains - Trade-in your domains for a ticket to TRAFFIC South Beach. This month’s Epik conference had a unique twist — you could pay for conference admission by trading in domain names. I was a bit surprised, yet excited, to learn this morning that you’ll be able to do the same thing for October’s TRAFFIC conference. Rob Monster has worked out a deal with TRAFFIC organizers to let you pay for admission with Epik bucks. To take advantage of the offer you need to send ... read more ...
Wed 22nd September 2010
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Energy and People Drove Epik’s First Developers Conference - My thoughts on last week’s conference in Seattle. I’ve re-written this blog post a couple times as I try to get my head around the Epik Developers Conference last week in Seattle. I’m reflecting on what it means for Epik as well as for the domain community. This is no easy task. So I’m going to punt and go with a stream-of-conscious. Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way first. Professionalism – this is something often lacking in the domain name community. ... read more ...
Thu 16th September 2010
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Epik Conference Kicks off in Seattle - First ever Epik DevCon gets underway. The Epik Developers Conference kicked off last night with a welcome reception at the Edgewater hotel in Seattle. Right off the bat I’d say this is the coolest hotel for any domain name conference I’ve attended. The hotel is on the water — literally. It’s on a pier. You could literally drop a fishing line out the window and go fishing. (In fact, there’s a famous photo of The Beattles doing just that at the hotel). Here’s ... read more ...
Tue 14th September 2010
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Are we Going to Epik Developers Conference? - Conference starts Wednesday evening in Seattle. Tomorrow I’m headed to Seattle for Epik’s first ever user conference called “Epik Developers Conference“. As a user conference and a first go-round, I expect attendance to be modest but the attendees to be enthusiastic and involved. The conference also includes a number of firsts: -First conference you can buy a pass to by trading in your domain names instead of paying cash -First conference with a domain swap ... read more ...
Tue 7th September 2010
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Epik Takes Innovative Approach to Domain Trading - Epik pushes the envelop at next week’s Domain Swap. Domain lifecycle platform Epik likes to try new and innovative things. Next week’s Domain Swap event at Epik DevCon in Seattle is another example. The Domain Swap brings in much needed liquidity and a common currency to domain trading, something that has been absent from similar ideas in the past. Here’s how it works: 1. Send a list of domains you wish to sell to Epik 2. Epik will buy some of the domains ... read more ...
Mon 16th August 2010
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Epik Domain Developer Conference Taking Shape for September - Epik to hold first user conference in September. Next month Epik will host its first user conference/domain development conference. The event, dubbed “Successful Monetization Through Domain Name Development” will take place at The Edgewater Hotel in Seattle September 15-17. I’ll be there. The agenda includes a lot of topics on the minds of domain owners these days: -Acquiring and Screening domains for Development -Operate – Content, SEO, and SEM -Sell – ... read more ...
Wed 26th May 2010
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Epik Acquires Domain Development Company DevRich - Epik adds to development capabilities. Rob Monster’s Epik has acquired domain name development company DevRich. The transaction was an all-equity transaction and the valuation was not disclosed. This is both a talent acquisition and a technology acquisition. Luke Webster, President of DevRich, will become SVP Operations of Epik. He will continue to run DevRich, which will be a division of Epik. I met Webster and his business partner at DOMAINfest this past January, ... read more ...
Thu 20th May 2010
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Epik Provides Excuse to Visit Seattle in September - Epik announces developer conference. Rob Monster’s Epik has announced its inaugural Epik Developer Conference to take place in Seattle September 15-17. Although the schedule is very tentative as of now, Monster says the event will include lessons on the entire lifecycle of domain names: acquiring, developing, operating, and selling. He also promises client case studies with specific examples of sites that are profiting from the Epik network. Epik provides a ... read more ...
Tue 13th April 2010
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5 Alternatives to Traditional Domain Name Parking - Parking revenue got you down? Here are 5 alternatives to try. Here are five alternatives to traditional pay-per-click domain parking. RootOrange – RootOrange will lease your domain name on a local basis to multiple parties. In theory, this leasing will provide you with a steady income stream that should top what you can achieve by using the domain at an international-only level. Check out DivorceLawyer.com for an example. Shopping Feeds – if you have a product ... read more ...
Thu 15th October 2009
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Epik Buys JustDropped - Epik buys drop catching search and registration tool. Rob Monster’s Epik has acquired JustDropped, an expired domain search and drop catching service. Last week at the SedoPro event in Key West Monster and JustDropped owner Dan Rubin were glued at the hip. I chatted with both of them about the future of Epik, but assumed the reason they were so tight was that Monster was using JustDropped for catching domains for his Epik network. Apparently it was a little bit ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2009
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Epik Primes Pump for Web Development - Epik off to quick start. It’s been a couple months since Rob Monster launched Epik, a semantic web domain monetization service. How’s it going? Quite well, reports Monster. He says the company will turn the corner on profitability next month, so the company will be able to choose whether or not to raise outside money. Epik 2.1 was just released and includes many improvements. A key improvement is a new parser that makes it easier to map domains to available ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2009
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Epik Acquires DNKO Auction Platform, First Auction on Friday - Epik moves into auctions with acquisition of DNKO platform. Domain company Epik has acquired domain auction platform DNKO.com, and is launching its first auction as Epik tomorrow. Epik is Rob Monster’s new domain name venture that was launched around the time of Domain Roundtable. DNKO is a relatively new auction platform. The platform launched a couple months ago after being discovered on NamePros. Always interested in the domain auction space, Monster saw ... read more ...
Sun 21st June 2009
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Epik Enhances Geo Domain Web Sites - Epik releases new directory pages on city domain names. When I met with Epik founder Rob Monster last week, he said the pace of development on Epik would be fast and furious. He wasn’t kidding. Within just a couple days, Epik has already launched an enhancement to location domain names on its network: directory pages. Location domains originally only had the same type of content as other pages: a home page, related articles, pictures, and video. But now each ... read more ...
Mon 15th June 2009
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Epik Provides New Monetization Option for Domainers - Epik could provide compelling domain monetization strategy — and may spur more direct navigation. When Rob Monster announced he was closing his venture capital shop, he wrote that he was working on a new company that could change domaining: We are building a Web 3.0 platform that will be among the first to drive a network effect across domain properties, in part enabled by single sign-on, portable identity, portable reputation, and user-aware content management. ... read more ...