Notice: Dickinson.Com Traffic Gets Bido Down, Our World Class Team Gets Site Up In Few Short Minutes at Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid

Notice: Dickinson.Com Traffic Gets Bido Down, Our World Class Team Gets Site Up In Few Short Minutes

Published on July 22, 2008 in Bido/DNZoom.

So we’re still learning, what can we do? Site went down due to excess traffic. Site is back up, I’ll have more update on the whole thing later.

(edit: Closing price 12,000.00 $US)

———-Update———-

This is the email we sent out to all Bido members earlier today:

Dear All Bido.com Experts and Bidders,
This is to update you about the auction that is currently running, Dickinson.com. Due to an overwhelming response, we experienced some minor technical difficulties for approximately two minutes during the auction and have corrected the issue.

If you have not already done so, please refresh your screen and you will see that the auction is back to running smoothly again.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Kind Regards,

The Bido.com Auction House Team

As expected, record traffic and massive page “refreshes” by users during the live auction caused a little hiccup. While service went down for few minutes our team stayed focused and none of us really had any doubt we will be back in no time. At the end, things worked out great, we took few lessons from here, stuff that was hard to predict without really walking through it. At the end of the day we have advanced a stage further, made the system a little bit stronger, and learned that our team really deals with unexpected events in a professional, focused, and determine manner, better than anything we’ve ever seen before.

We will have some great news towards the end of the week, new complimentary service coming to Bido to help many in the domain business to do even better.

Stay tuned, and thanks in advance guys (and gals!) for all the support!!

Sahar

4 Responses to “Notice: Dickinson.Com Traffic Gets Bido Down, Our World Class Team Gets Site Up In Few Short Minutes”

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1 Damir
Jul 22nd, 2008 at 9:24 am

Nice one Sahar - Closing price 12,000.00 $US for Dickinson.Com
2 Michael Carter
Jul 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm

looks like a steal - i was expecting 2-3x that #.

—-answer—-

Same here.. someone got a steal of course.

Sahar
3 Jeff Hawkins
Jul 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Well you might have lost a few bids during the down time but you probably had a few bidders who wanted that one and got nervous then raised their bid when the system came back up. Probably a break even or net gain on that down time bid increase.

I’m sure by now you have some idea of which days are the worst for your auctions. You might try something on your two worst performing days. Add a half hour earlier start, a 15 minute later end then take a 15 minute “potty” break in the middle. No bidding during the break.
4 Tia Wood
Jul 22nd, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Congrats on the sale, Bido!