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Domain Development Is Where the Money Is…Usually – With Rob Monster

By Michael Cyger on October 4, 2011

As a degreed and lifelong student of economics, Rob Monster understands better than most the science of how wealth is produced, consumed and transferred. And he is making good use of that knowledge. ... More

The Barefoot Domainer: Itchy Feet, Restless Mind = ClickFund

By Owen Frager on Tuesday, June 14, 2011

In its most recent quarter, The ClickFund paid out over 11% on investment. "We've had a very successful first year. Our plans are to have a second launch to attract more funds," states Robert Epstone. But more importantly, domain name investing allows Robert to make the living that enables him to make a difference to the needy in Asia." ... More

Epik Has Epic Semantic Web Plans For Its Domains and Domainers

By Jennifer Zaino on January 24, 2011 8:20 AM

Are you a domainer? More specifically, are you a domainer who's sitting on a lot of parking sites that aren't turning the profit they once used to, and for whom the cost proposition of building out each one individually to generate revenue is just plain prohibitive? ... More

Epik: Remarkably Effective In The Hands of Someone Who Knows How To Exploit Its Potential

By Owen Frager on Wednesday, December 22, 2010

According to his popular blog, PPCIan.com, Ian Lopuch is one of the most recognized search engine marketers around. He's gone from pay per click marketing associate at a startup to director of SEM at a large public company after graduating from Stanford University only five years ago. Ian's a true advocate of the corporate online ... More

Domaining's Most Fascinating 2010: Rob Monster "The Future of Domaining"

By Owen Frager on Saturday, December 25, 2010

"I met Rob at Traffic and as someone with corporate experience in the consumer products industry. I was immediately impressed that he knew what he was talking about. He understood the economy and investments. Having worked with them for a long time now... More

Rob Grant Partners With Epik to Launch Major White Label Brand On The Cheap

By Owen Frager on Thursday, December 09, 2010

You've read about veteran domain innovator Rob Grant on DNJournal and also heard his story told on DomainSuccess.

What you haven't heard is that he has inked a white-label partnership with Epik to breathe new life into his prized portfolio of category defining "cheap.com" domains - Names that have been lying in wait for over 10 years until the right combination of time and technology ... More

How A Newbie Parlayed a $45K Investment Into a 35% Annual ROI and Built A Domain Portfolio Appraised at $1.4 Million Moonlighting His Day Job

By Owen Frager on Wednesday, November 17, 2010

"Cash on Cash Return is one way of deciding if you want to go ahead with an investment, and in that case investment in domains is far more tempting than anything else on the market right now. Especially when you develop the domain on a platform." ... More

Updated: "Why Would They Call These Guys Developers? It's Not Really A Developers Conference!"

By Owen Frager on Monday, September 20, 2010

Some bloggers don't go to events but seem to know everything that happened at them blabbing misstatements and spreading uninformed gossip all over the web. Fortunately, there are cameras all around. So let's tell the DevCon story like it really is. ... More

Developing Story: Rob Monster's Grand Plan for Epik.com and Why Parking Won't Be Part Of It

By Ron Jackson - Editor/Publisher - DNJournal.com on, August, 2010

Rob Monster, the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Epik.com, has ambitious goals for the company's new custom domain development platform - goals that include nothing less than "building a better and more useful Internet." ... More

Learn About Epik & Rob Monster in Today's Webcast

By Elliot - ElliotsBlog.com on July 28, 2010

Rob Monster is one of the most approachable people in the domain space, and I think his company has a good business model that may work for some domain investors. Epik just launched BumperProtectors.com this morning for my company, and as I promised, I will keep you apprised of the results in a future post. ... More

5 with… Rob Monster, CEO of Epik

By Elliot - ElliotsBlog.com on August 26, 2010

Most of us have probably heard about Rob Monster's development company, Epik, and the company's development conference from September 15-17 in Seattle, Washington. I had a chance to ask Rob a few questions about the conference that may be of interest to you if you are either thinking about attending or working with Epik .... More

Monster's View of the Internet

By Mike Sullivan - SullysBlog.com on July 8, 2010

I had a great conversation with Rob Monster of Epik.com a couple of days ago. I ended up with so many scribbled notes from that call that this is going to end up being a multi-post interview. I'm just not sure yet if it will be two parts or three. ... More

Epik Acquires Domain Development Company DevRich

By Andrew Allemann DomainnameWire.com on, Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Rob Monster's Epik has acquired domain name development company DevRich. The transaction was an all-equity transaction and the valuation was not disclosed. ... More

Rob Monster Buys JustDropped.com

By Adam Strong - DomainnameNews.com on, October 15th, 2009

Rob Monster announced on the Epik.com blog [Ed. Post Removed] today that expiring domain name service provider JustDropped.com has been purchased and will be incorported in to the Epik.com offerings. JustDropped claims to receive 400,000 monthly unique visitors and have 42,000 email subscribers. ... More

Epik Provides New Monetization Option for Domainers

By Andrew Allemann -DomainnameWire.com on, Monday, June 15th, 2009

The first iteration of Epik launched last night, and today I sat down with Monster at Domain Roundtable in Washington D.C. to take Epik for a test drive. ... More

Rob Monster Closes Monster Venture Partners, Starts Web 3.0 Firm

By Chad Kettner - DomainnameNews.com on, March 31th, 2009

Rob Monster made quite an impact in the domain industry when he started Monster Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that backed more than 20 early-stage companies – many of which were based on high quality domain names such as Alerts.com ... More