So Dynadot won the Namepros end of the year poll. The poll was held to get the voting on schedule for future years. Epik still won best registrar 2020.
This poll had some different mechanisms such as three votes. Even though it said no employees vote, some employees did vote, but no way to prevent that.
Results
- 101Domain 3 votes 0.4%
- Cloudflare 10 votes 1.2%
- DirectNic 1 vote 0.1%
- Domain.com 2 votes 0.2%
- Dotster 1 vote 0.1%
- Dynadot 348 votes 40.8%
- Enom 0 votes 0.0%
- Epik 210 votes 24.6%
- Fabulous 6 votes 0.7%
- GoDaddy 173 votes 20.3%
- Google 10 votes 1.2%
- Hexonet 3 votes 0.4%
- Hover 1 vote 0.1%
- InternetBS 9 votes 1.1%
- Moniker 8 votes 0.9%
- Name.com 34 votes 4.0%
- Namebright 24 votes 2.8%
- NameCheap 159 votes 18.7%
- Namepal 0 votes 0.0%
- NameSilo 160 votes 18.8%
- NetSol – Network Solutions 7 votes 0.8%
- Porkbun 112 votes 13.1%
- Rebel 3 votes 0.4%
- Register.com 1 vote 0.1%
- Sav.com 33 votes 3.9%
- Uniregistry 33 votes 3.9%
- Other – Can Post In Thread 21 votes 2.5%
What a fucking stupid poll. They already had a 2020 winner right? So what was this? The best two weeks of January. I see who started it and they are a a tool anyway.
Namepros = worthless
No wonder many have left namepros, sad really. Why not a monthly poll?
Dynadot sucks, I think the op just hates epik so he tried to tarnish their win. But he can’t he is nobody and Dynadot sucks.
Does np know it’s no longer relevant? There are few people there that are anything in the domain industry. Mugford slums there and he is not exactly a superstar, you have a few people who just post their blog posts there, Brown, Robbie, etc…
So Epik won 2020 but the end of 2020 they lost? Are these people imbeciles?
Lot of hurt Epik fans I see.
You do where? I have no names at Epik. Godaddy is the only registrar that matters, they have the expired names and the public knows them.
You don’t have to be an epik fan to know namepros sucks.
End of the year poll,,,LOL. I was voted best domain investor for January 10, it’s a daily award. LOL
The host of the poll did it tactically with participation with some of the mods, in an attempt to remove the process from the individual that had traditionally hosted it in the past. The three votes were used, because during discussions, they knew that if it was one account one vote, Epik would still win. If you look at the voting mechanics of who selected what companies, with a bit of research you will see, that a majority of votes cast for Dynadot did NOT even come from people who actually used them. Epik was by far the purest representation of actual users voting for an actual favorite. The three vote scheme was used to intentionally help them stack the deck. It also should be said that the new poll host is known for attacking Epik (literally) hundreds of times over the year, in some of the most hateful negative and trolling posts Namepros has ever seen. This fact alone should have reduced this random tactical poll to the rubbish bin it belonged in. The influence by GoDaddy as well on key players to shape the outcome is noted. Soon everyone will know. They have been on full scale attack to diminish and marginalize Epik at every turn. Great video on Tucker Carlson this week of GoDaddy booting a major account of military and law enforcement professionals over a single complaint (AR15.com). Customers are abandoning them in mass due to the number of sites and services being seized and terminated. Domainers beware! Your keyword domains may not be safe in the hands of a weaponized entity intent on power brokering.
Could be the dumbest post here. Over 75% of the voters wouldn’t even put Epik in the top 3. If it was just 1 vote, Dynadot’s victory would be even greater.
When you publically beef with:
Wikipedia
Dan
GoDaddy
etc
Then get dropped by:
Afternic
PayPal
You’re going to take a hit in the polls.