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Epik is done. ICANN has sent this letter of a registrar breach.
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news Epik is Done - ICANN Sends Letter of Registrar Breach
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This keeps getting weirder.
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ICANN sends breach notice to Epik - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
The company has three weeks to pay up and address issues. ICANN sent a breach notice (pdf) to Epik yesterday, giving it until June 22 to fix a number of problems. The official reason for the breach notice is the company’s failure to pay its accreditation fees. But it also cites numerous...
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The new Epik LLC said they paid ICANN in full and other things. Looks to be Epik people, whoever they are since it's not quite clear. It's been pointed out that their post on NP reflects the tweets on their official Twitter account here - https://twitter.com/beepik
Just some from their post:
1. JJE, TVT, and Adkisson were all paid today and released lawsuits. The sale of Epik Holdings Inc to Epik LLC was able to close.
2. ICANN was paid in full today.
3. Identity Digital was paid in full today.
4. Verisign was paid in full today
5. All aftermarket options were removed from epik.com today.
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Just some from their post:
1. JJE, TVT, and Adkisson were all paid today and released lawsuits. The sale of Epik Holdings Inc to Epik LLC was able to close.
2. ICANN was paid in full today.
3. Identity Digital was paid in full today.
4. Verisign was paid in full today
5. All aftermarket options were removed from epik.com today.
alert - The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet
It happened on 23rd Aug 2022 and this matter lasted almost one month without any process. Masterbucks.com declined my fund withdrawal and disabled the button of fund withdrawal. And I contacted Epik.com and got no further action even if Rob Monster got involved in it for two weeks. All the time...
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Yeah, a lot of dancing, shuffling around right now. I don't think anybody is 100% sure on who the new people are or are they just Rob or Brian. So far they haven't been real forthcoming on identities.
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I just don't get it ...
@Helmuts is Epik still involved with DNForum?
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@Helmuts is Epik still involved with DNForum?
news - Epik is Sold
Epik got sold to an entity called Epik LLC. We don't know who controls this entity. Totally weird. https://domainnamewire.com/2023/06/03/epik-is-sold/
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I just don't get it ...
@Helmuts is Epik still involved with DNForum?
news - Epik is Sold
Epik got sold to an entity called Epik LLC. We don't know who controls this entity. Totally weird. https://domainnamewire.com/2023/06/03/epik-is-sold/
Not really. Why? .. I use the TerraHost for hosting DNForum (have a dedicated server there), and that is it.
Yes, the trademark is also in discussions - I believe we will sort these out without lawyers and bloodshed
There was a previous Epik moderator, though his account got removed from here.
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And still don't know much about the whole Epik saga. .. hate the negativity and toxic people
Was it ever transferred from Adam? I believe it took months to try and get him to hand it over, if he ever did (it was one thing I worked on).Yes, the trademark is also in discussions - I believe we will sort these out without lawyers and bloodshed
If it's in Epik's hands now, I doubt it'll be as hard as it was attempting to get it from Adam as he seemed to ignore every message regarding it from various people... until the lawyers got involved.
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What is going on at Epik.com?
What is going on at Epik.com?
Two recent domain purchases to support my newsletter are MIA and contact from Epik.com has been ZERO
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Update:
All ICANN breach requirements have been met and we will work with ICANN to properly comply by June 22. All underlying registries have been paid and funded and all batched domains have been processed that were hung up for lack of funding. Luckily all domains were saved in time. It would appear that all registrations and renewals are working properly. There may be a few stragglers still resolving through mid morning Tuesday the 6th. But all domain functions should be working at this point.
We are hoping all customer support emails and phones will be back fully operational this week.
We will start working through the long list of in store credits the week of June 12th, 2023. There's a lot of problems Epik Holdings Inc made for themselves and a lot of fraud from customers that Epik Holdings Inc didn't have the sophistication to deal with. People trying to pay with Alt coins, the software not knowing what to do, creating masterbucks/credit, and then saying Epik robbed them when they were trying to pay with worthless crypto. The story isn't nearly as bad as many posts here make it seem. There's a lot to work through, and we're not minimizing the pain some of you have had to go through. Many people did normal transactions and just got caught in a cash crunch that Epik Holdings Inc had. It might take some time, but we will try to do right for as many people as possible. Everyone would have gotten zero if Epik had done bankruptcy so it might not be as fast of a resolution as you all would like, but we're making progress and already doing better than the alternative.
We're sorry that so many of you have been so inconvenienced over the past year, but the future is bright. Thank you to those that have stuck with us during this tough time.
Also, FYI, the asset purchase agreement that was leaked was not the asset purchase agreement Epik LLC used to acquire certain assets from Epik Holdings Inc. That deal was ruined by a temporary restraining order. We did not purchase Masterbucks or any crypto alternative resilient ecosystem stuff. Just domain software and clients. We will not be offering aftermarket, escrow, crypto, or any of the alternative resilient ecosystem ideas. Just domain registration and management.
When acquiring assets it is very common to form a new surviving LLC, use a registered agent service in a state with friendly laws, and use Independent Director services to facilitate a special purpose entity when there are a lot of logistics. This was a complicated deal. We hope to serve and help as many people that will let us. There were a lot of mistakes made and a lot to work through. Thank you for your patience as we do our best to help as many people as possible.
Will try to update again by end of the week June 16 on the progress made towards making things right for customers with in store credit. Maybe it will be an epik couple weeks. You stay epik naming professionals. We'll keep trying to fix things.
Epik LLC
This was posted elsewhere.
All ICANN breach requirements have been met and we will work with ICANN to properly comply by June 22. All underlying registries have been paid and funded and all batched domains have been processed that were hung up for lack of funding. Luckily all domains were saved in time. It would appear that all registrations and renewals are working properly. There may be a few stragglers still resolving through mid morning Tuesday the 6th. But all domain functions should be working at this point.
We are hoping all customer support emails and phones will be back fully operational this week.
We will start working through the long list of in store credits the week of June 12th, 2023. There's a lot of problems Epik Holdings Inc made for themselves and a lot of fraud from customers that Epik Holdings Inc didn't have the sophistication to deal with. People trying to pay with Alt coins, the software not knowing what to do, creating masterbucks/credit, and then saying Epik robbed them when they were trying to pay with worthless crypto. The story isn't nearly as bad as many posts here make it seem. There's a lot to work through, and we're not minimizing the pain some of you have had to go through. Many people did normal transactions and just got caught in a cash crunch that Epik Holdings Inc had. It might take some time, but we will try to do right for as many people as possible. Everyone would have gotten zero if Epik had done bankruptcy so it might not be as fast of a resolution as you all would like, but we're making progress and already doing better than the alternative.
We're sorry that so many of you have been so inconvenienced over the past year, but the future is bright. Thank you to those that have stuck with us during this tough time.
Also, FYI, the asset purchase agreement that was leaked was not the asset purchase agreement Epik LLC used to acquire certain assets from Epik Holdings Inc. That deal was ruined by a temporary restraining order. We did not purchase Masterbucks or any crypto alternative resilient ecosystem stuff. Just domain software and clients. We will not be offering aftermarket, escrow, crypto, or any of the alternative resilient ecosystem ideas. Just domain registration and management.
When acquiring assets it is very common to form a new surviving LLC, use a registered agent service in a state with friendly laws, and use Independent Director services to facilitate a special purpose entity when there are a lot of logistics. This was a complicated deal. We hope to serve and help as many people that will let us. There were a lot of mistakes made and a lot to work through. Thank you for your patience as we do our best to help as many people as possible.
Will try to update again by end of the week June 16 on the progress made towards making things right for customers with in store credit. Maybe it will be an epik couple weeks. You stay epik naming professionals. We'll keep trying to fix things.
Epik LLC
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On the other hand, do you know the identities of the people of all the registrars you're working with?
GoDaddy is a public company, but all the others like Dynadot, Porkbun, etc.?
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What are you talking about? Reps that run those companies engage with the domain investor community all the time.
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