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: $ whois parler.com | grep -i epik [Redirected to whois.epik.com] [Querying whois.epik.com] [whois.epik.com] Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.epik.com Registrar URL: http://www.epik.com Registrar: Epik, Inc. Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@epik.com Name Server: NS3.EPIK.COM Name Server: NS4.EPIK.COM I'm not sure I agree with characterizing DNS hosting as a registrar service. It makes sense to sell them together but they're not classically the same thing. Epik is also entangled with Clouthub which I hear is where Trump landed. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/