Some thoughts:
- Unlike most marketplaces, Epik.com will show you the full contacts of your inquiries. You can negoitate directly if you like. That is like Efty which is "free". Nice try though.
- Epik will actually help you close deals -- not just automated but also live engagement. I actually spend a good portion of my day closing deals for customers often for prices far above what they could get alone.
- Epik integrates fully automated leasing and financing so that domains that cannot be sold can be securely leased or financed on a single vendor basis that protects lessor and lessee.
- We provide amazing tools for free. The most famous of which is the SSL landers but also vast tools for smart analytics, e.g. WHOIS lookup data, etc that you don't find elsewhere. See tutorial on landers:
- You can use your proceeds to fund domain expenses, or cash out, including to crypto which is increasingly popular. Funds are immediately available at sale. Cash-out is fast for verified users.
- Proceeds from sales on Epik marketplace fund awesome Digital Empowerment projects as well as a growing number of domain loans. See catalog here:
https://www.epik.com/about/labs/
- Epik is co-creating with customers.
@dande showed that last week
here. Bring the feedback. Bring the ideas. We'll listen, respond, and improve -- often in days, not years.
Overall, the value proposition of Epik at 9% is pretty much lights-out superior. I am actually dumbfounded that anyone uses anything besides Epik for landers at this point.
I could go on, and absolutely am keen to study what others are doing, believing very much that the win is not about who can charge the
least, but who can empower the
greatest.
And now for the red pill:
The race to the bottom is scarcity mindset. It is a death-trap designed to empower winner take all. The idea of a million thriving domainers is terrifying to the people who want most people broke.
Godaddy might like domainers to be broke so they will drop names into their expiry stream. Sound crazy? Do this test on Afternic. Search the term "Doctor".
You will see one page of crap names and likely none of yours:
Now scroll to the bottom. Guess what? No pagination. One page of crap names none of which are yours. Wondering why you don't sell many Afternic names lately? Now you know.
That might just be incompetence. Or not. Let's hope they fix it soon and that management resists all temptations to undermine their customers.
The Godaddy apologists may respond to the above. Use discernment, and focus on the facts, that you can verify with your own eyes. The rhetoric and
ad hominem is a distraction.
My advice:
Keep making the pie bigger, looking out for each other and learning from each other.
Keep
shooting the moon, backing into leases or financing for those who can't pay bigly.
Keep improving platforms run by companies that are looking out for you.
Thanks for your support. God bless you all.