Comments on: Don’t mean to be a party pooper but WTF… ?

By: Bill M

Bill M — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:27:53 +0000

Anyone notice that the question and answer link feeds a company named YouSaidIt.com? Product content created by users is then owned and managed offsite by this other Seattle company a couple miles away from them? That content should be owned by the site that generated it. That’s not right.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:57:38 +0000

let’s not forget Wishpot is a wholly-owned, privately held, product feed aggregater that functions (profitably I’m sure) prior to the 50-50 split. Clothes or no clothes, somebody please sell me some stock in there outfit. That guy sure ain’t stupid.

By: muhammed

muhammed — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:23:19 +0000

Stephen

The problem is the newbies and not so newbies are flocking to the epik model like it’s the holy grail of domaining. As mentioned, you can earn more on traditional parking and if you want the seo perk it’s all free at smartname.com – I am sure the epik bucks were created for all the refunds that will be asked for in the coming months. People will want cash back, not epik bucks!!

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:19:31 +0000

Wow, somebody finally says the “Emperor wears no clothes”. Publicly. Then proves it.

No worries, you’ll get a peace offering of “Epik Bucks” to trade in for more of this “expert” development and “experienced” domain advice, which might lead you to participate in the ultimate domain incest event, “Swapfest”. Will you give me your crappy domain in exchange for my crappy domain? Please do, because that will accomplish… ummm… a crappy domain swap? And the benefit of this is…?

I’m getting increasingly blown away by some of the articles, decisions, advice, offers, and business directions that the domain industry has taken in just the last year.

I just read this quote tonight on another blog — “Not since Steve Forbes have we had someone of such esteem.”

That “someone” of esteem, by this blog author, is Don King the boxing promoter.

Comparing Steve Forbes to Don King in the “esteem” department shows that someone has had a meltdown in their moral center.

Sadly, it is apparent that when someone beats a murder rap, or several raps, fraud charges, and more, and settles lawsuits and survives repudiations from the very sports stars he’s “managed/promoted”, as long as his name is in the news and he’s very rich, we Americans are just so… impressed. Or are we? Do we call this out, or think it’s funny and cute? Does our financial comfort zone remove common sense?

Moral compass check, please.

Nice article on Epik.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:26:22 +0000

There is a one year money back guarantee. I only have one site and will will be invoking the guarantee as I am earning less than when the domain was parked.

By: Fucking

Fucking — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:32:42 +0000

>>> 50% rev share

you never know whether epik have shaved away any bit of your share of rev

By: Thinker

Thinker — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:12:35 +0000

Another problem may be with the related, featured and new stores links on this particular platform. They are all on the same IP.

By: muhammed

muhammed — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:05:28 +0000

I forget to mention the duplicate content issues such as this:

http://www.penis.asia/
http://www.penis.net

I would not be happy if I paid $250 for this to find the same site copied over.

By: muhammed

muhammed — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:56:37 +0000

Epik calls this development when in fact it is nothing more then glorified parking. Sure, they add some meta, images, however for $250 a pop + 50% rev share you must be crazy. You are better off using the smartname ecomm sites which is free and gives you much more control over every aspect of the site. I am making more then the sites referenced above with smartname.

By: Arlen

Arlen — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:05:45 +0000

To me it seems an even bigger issue is cost of entry. At $ 250 per site that is a lot of sunk cost when equally if not more attractive alternatives have no cost of entry. Moreover most domains are nowhere close to tue attractiveness of the examples you provided and ean nowhere near as much if any pennies at all. So the hype on some outlets and ad budget are of concern to the whole industry if less savvy people than you are getting fooled and or not informed of the free alternatives.

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:00:49 +0000

Call me an idiot, but isn’t $300 a week pretty good for bra.net?

By: chris

chris — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:22:56 +0000

Why settle for $0.10 per click when you could be hooking up with an affiliate site and earning a % of a sale?

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:17:57 +0000

Keep in mind that each of those earnings totals is split 50/50 with Epik. So a site making $30/month is only generating $15 for the site owner.