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<p>They may just be a reseller, but they are claiming to be themselves (although I've never heard of epik until this week), the whois record seems to hit all the right buttons to indicate they are a registrar and dns:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>$ whois parler.com | grep -i epik</p><p>[Redirected to whois.epik.com]</p><p>[Querying whois.epik.com]</p><p>[whois.epik.com]</p><p>Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.epik.com</p><p>Registrar URL: http://www.epik.com</p><p>Registrar: Epik, Inc.</p><p>Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@epik.com</p><p>Name Server: NS3.EPIK.COM</p><p>Name Server: NS4.EPIK.COM</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">I'm not sure I agree with characterizing DNS hosting as a registrar<br />service. It makes sense to sell them together but they're not<br />classically the same thing.<br /><br />Epik is also entangled with Clouthub which I hear is where Trump landed.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Bill Herrin<br /><br /><br /><br />-- <br />Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/<br /></blockquote><p> </p>
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