I'm Bill Hartzer, and I am the Director of DNProtect.
I started DNProtect in February 2020 as a partnership with Rob M. So 50/50 with Rob, not Epik. Ownership could change in the future.
Words have meanings. You are either in a partnership with Rob, in which case you are a "partner", or you are running a corporation of some kind, in which case you are a "director".
So, it has nothing to do with Epik, but.....
The article linked there is about this UDRP:
"Epik's DNProtect.com service"
It seems that Rob is not as clear as Bill on who owns DNProtect or whether it is part of Epik.
But that's hardly the only problem with Bill's various contradictory statements. While, absolutely, Bill has a point that there are a lot of ways to determine various sorts of "risk" with domain names, there are also ways of determining the risk of doing business with people who are not straightforward about their own company.
So, Bill is the "director" of a 50/50 partnership with Rob. And, again, a partnership is not a corporation, nor is it an LLC.
Which is where we come to the really strange part, since there is always something strange about businesses related to Epik.
DNProtect is not actually a partnership of any kind. It
WAS a Wyoming LLC with a familiar Washington business address:
https://wyobiz.wyo.gov/Business/Fil...088039031002124224153158053245194148151116043
But, like all things Epik, the bills weren't paid, the registered agent resigned because they weren't getting paid either, and DNProtect LLC was administratively dissolved by the State of Wyoming last month.
Wait, wait, don't tell me... the DNProtect LLC formed in Wyoming and now defunct had nothing to do with the "real" DNProtect, is that it?