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Yeah I'm not sure what I expected from someone whose name is literally "Monster" 🤔
If you're in the USA, Privacy.com is great. They let you create virtual credit cards, and you can use any name and any billing address with the generated cards. Some banks have a similar feature too (Bank of America used to have a similar feature but it used Flash... Not sure if they ever rewrote it to not use Flash). Other countries might have something similar.
They recently acquired dnforum.com
Privacy.com is great if your bank doesn't allow you to generate / create virtual cards for online payments for sure.
In this day and age, I'd put the ability to create virtual cards as one of the top deciding factors in choosing a bank. In fact, it's one of the reasons why I chose the startup business bank that I did. They seem to have a focus on tech startups and have modern features like this.
Personal banking is still lacking, but for that, privacy.com shines.
I've got some bank accounts that allow virtual cards but don't allow setting a spend limit on them. That's one of my use cases for Privacy - I have a card with a $1 lifetime limit for free trials that demand a credit card number
Rob Monster mixed business with politics and religion and that's where Epik started to see a downfall. Paypal left, then Godaddy, and some other businesses, individuals, and then this customer-data leak by hackers. Epik will always be on the radar of someone or the other!
Epik did got its brand tarnished in last couple of days starting 13 Sept? The public domain stats of total new domain registrations suggests so:
Namecheap has the transfer week now https://www.namecheap.com/domains/transfer/domain-transfer-sale/ (but i'm not sure about benefit and convenience though, just sharing the news i got).
I'm surprised that Namecheap haven't made a page like their "Transfer from GoDaddy" page (https://www.namecheap.com/domains/transfer/transfer-from-godaddy/) yet for Epik.
The very mention of Epik will make many PMS, so it's best to avoid it.
Update
epik hack includes domain-transfer auth code, and credit card numbers, up to Feb 28th.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/epik-hack-far-right-sites-anonymous/
there probably are some that are working
I've had some time to find my own data within the leak, and I can confirm that there's a database dump mapping their WHOIS privacy contacts to the actual domain owners' contacts. At least I had paid with a disposable credit card, so even if the number is found in the leak I'm very unlikely to lose any money.
The only positive is that I managed to transfer all of my domains away from Epik in a couple of hours, as there wasn't any mandatory 5-days waiting time like I had with other registrars.
Received via email:
My name is now
[MERGE_FIRST_NAME]
They're offering Experian’s IdentityWorks free for two years, which is great because my free subscription from another data breach is about to expire. laughcry
There's only one subscription purchased, allocated to
[MERGE_FIRST_NAME]
.A just leaked a second batch. Bootable disk images of several of their servers... Ouch.
C'mon Sara, fess up, you nearly said "I just leaked a second batch." Freudian slip? Guilty conscience?
Freudian slip... Hate to disappoint you. Guilty conscience? Most definitely
yup! the new domain registrations at Epik has slipped down since Epic Fail.
from registrar stats
On some days the graph shows a jump in registrations as many namepros forum members who are Rob Monster's supporters registered new domains and/or transferred-in to Epik to show solidarity towards (Rob) Monster.
Even their customers are transferring domains out!
Best thread in a while!
1. primary reason why not to store access keys at your provider.
2. @jsg swearing like a trooper - 1st time that I've seen this.
also the major leak was the domains' protected-whois data which got leaked. Lots of far-right, pro nazi, neo nazi, etc. or even people running scam/phishing sites using whois-protection at Epik got all their personal names/address/email exposed to the public (assuming they provided correct/real information while registering domains at Epik).
Also just a lot of regular people, who were attracted to good deals and now have their personal details leaked who are at risk of being put on a "nazi list" by SJWs who think everyone who had a domain there was some far right extremist or something.
Yep. They were able to register some unique ccTLDs that failed to process at other registrars and had some of the better pricing for them.
Also a lot of idiots are going through the data and not realizing that there's a difference between the whois and customer databases. There's a whois.sql dump in there with whois details on 10s of millions of domains, not just their own registrations.