As I know in this struggle session it'll be brought up more, but I'll drop this nugget again:
And affirm, I'm not at Epik. I don't even have an @epik.com email address. That is important for the community to know so they are aware of our impartial position with Epik. We do not, as a community, put Epik on a pedestal or have a secret bias that everyone just knows.
For their manpower helping DNF develop innovative technologies on the Xenforo platform, they do get special privileges such as being prominently displayed in our logo ("Powered by Epik") and advertising space though. I think that is only fair for the cost of development that we're going to be dropping into the forum to make it like nothing else on the market, don't you? However, they're not getting preferential treatment. I have moved plenty of Rob's posts made here into appropriate forums, etc.
As far as my personal bias for Epik goes, it's quite clear. I have an affiliate link in my signature (go sign up and give me a buck if you want!). This is because Uniregistry had me priced in at $8.20ish (at cost) domains because of my position as a "personality", I would guess, when I wrote for domain blogs.
After GoDaddy took over, they no longer saw that I was necessary and took my pricing away, which should've been grandfathered in. Since then I hopped to a cheaper registry, you know, the one that the other forum has a clear bias for (Dynadot--staff members also introduced me to it in private, so don't tell me there isn't). Then, Rob came along and I saw how great prices were at Epik. While I liked the Uni UI more than Epik's, it's not a dealbreaker and I'm getting used to it. Epik keeps their word and Rob is genuinely a nice guy and I don't think Epik or him would do me wrong like GoDaddy did after they acquired Uni.
I'll be back to probably answer your same question about speaking for Epik again, but in another way... 
