It’s been a few months since we placed Bido domain auctions on hiatus. The response has been loud and clear to bring Bido back as soon as possible! We’ve missed running the auctions as much as you missed participating in them!
DNZoom and PortfolioHelp have been running uninterrupted in the interim while Bido was shut down. Since August when we took down the auctions, our technical team has placed thousands of hours into the Bido auction platform. We’ve successfully redesigned the architecture and overall platform, and the end result is increased capacity and scalability. Over the coming weeks, we’ll comment more on the scalability side of things to the tune that we aware that the current format of one domain auction per day is not providing value to the entire domain name community of buyers and sellers. We are happy to say that we will be breaking free of the one auction per day mold. But that will be a short amount of time after we get our gears spinning again. When Bido relaunches, we’re returning to the familiar format of one domain auction per day, starting at 1:00PM EST, for one hour of open bidding. Bidders may place a proxy bid at any time - days or weeks before your auction even starts. But keep in mind that we know that you guys and gals need more auctions and more capability to sell your domains. We will also be taking new twists with “dynamic offers” and “buy it now” options. More information on those additions will be provided in due time, for now just enjoy the teaser. 
Another difference that will be in effect is there will be no more weekend auctions. When we started Bido, we ran auctions on weekends as well as weekdays. The weekend auctions were really just filler auctions for the main events that ran M-F. It quickly became apparent to us to only run weekday auctions. If you were a member early on, you may remember this and remember how the averages were brought down. So that will be a welcome change as well. I know you are anxious and want to finally know when we will return, so without further ado, on Monday, February 2nd, 2009, we’re happy to announce that Bido will return. Mark your calendars for that day!
We’re preparing for this long awaited relaunch by accepting additional submissions from domain sellers at this time. If you’ve been thinking about liquidating one or a few of your domain assets, we hope you’ll turn to us for the opportunity to run your auction. Our rates are the most favorable in the business and, in addition, no other venue provides the overall exposure we’ll provide your sale.
The submission process is quite simple. You’ll create an account, or log in if you already have an account, and paste your list of domain names that are for sale. Short generics are preferred and remember that Bido provides instant liquidity by running “no reserve” auctions. If any of your domains are approved, we will contact you with more information and the steps needed to complete scheduling your auction. Of course, additional information is detailed on the submission page, and if you have any questions you may email me at jarred@bido.com. In the future, the submission and approval process will be slightly different. The way it is now, we approve each domain by hand, internally here in our office. We plan to give the control over what is auctioned to the domainer community itself. Our members will actually be the ones to select what goes to auction. We have a fun way that we will accomplish this and it will be completely in line with our “Social Auction Platform” motto.
We strive as an organization to produce the best possible services for our customers to make more money. The world is a different place now than it was just a few short months ago. At the very core, we’re domainers, and we build products tailored for domainers. DNZoom is designed to help you manage your domains across multiple registrars and multiple parking companies. The wave of reduced payouts lately is more and more reason to utilize the DNZoom service to help you get your domains under control and producing more revenue. The economic storm that we are in is also more reason for you to consider our PortfolioHelp product. We’ve worked with a few domainers already to help them earn more from their portfolios, with the same amount of traffic, so it’s something you should consider looking into as well.
We also have a new toll free number to make it easy for you to contact us and get more information about Bido. Accordingly, that number is 1-800-611-Bido (2436). We hope you will reach out to us should you desire more information. Thanks for reading along and from all of us here at Bido, we look forward to working together with you!
We would love to hear your comments, so please feel free to comment here on the blog or send us a message.
Happy Holidays, and a bright and better New Year for all!
Jarred Cohen
Bido.com
Hey Jarred and thanks for the heads up I have been waitng for Bido to come back.I just submitted some names.Cheers.Kevin Davis.
Hey there Kevin! Thanks for the kind words, we’re happy to be back! Thanks for submitting some names!
I was waiting for updates about bido. Glad you go live again and i surely be here at 2nd of February for checking yout out!!!
Cheers from Greece!
Glad to see your comming back!
Im looking forward to this exciting domain auction business model and looking forward to selling some great domains!
Happy Holidays to the bido team and all the best for 2009!
Regards,
Robbie
Good to see you guys getting it back up. Like the improvements! Everything has tested well? I know crashes were an issue previously?
John
Congrats guys, glad to hear Bido is going to be relaunched soon. Sounds like you’ve got some exciting new features in store for the second time around. I look forward to commenting on some more auctions (assuming you’ll still have the experts).
@ John Kane - Crashes were not a problem, nothing “crashed” so to speak, the problem was a capacity issue, we had an issue where some people could not access the site for the last domain that was up for auction before our hiatus. We then pulled the plug on that final auction. Now that we’ve moved forward from that point, among other things, we’ve rebuilt the architecture to handle a lot more load now, though. The new system has been redesigned from the ground up; connectivity, hardware, and software - and tested extensively. We’ve ran load, performance, stress, volume, reliability, smoke, sanity, regression, and acceptance testing to our utmost satisfaction. I think you’ll be happy with the end result! For what it’s worth, the following is a photo of some of our team members that have been keeping busy with the efforts.
How about a moment for a round of applause, they deserve it
@ Michael Sumner - Thank you! We look forward to having you back as an expert. It was always nice to read your commentaries. As you know, expert members benefit from their commentaries because they get a clean link back to their website as well as their news piped in from their RSS feed, with links back to the entries. This is very good for SEO and we’re happy to offer this as a value and give back to the expert participants with the exposure and these permanent and clean links. Keep in mind our slogan is that Bido is a “Social Auction Platform” and so having expert members and interaction is a core aspect of Bido. We’ll always feature this and we’ll actually keep expanding on it, at least for a long time. It’s not only A) buyers and B) sellers that get value from Bido, its also the C) expert participants as well as D) those that come each day to read and learn from the commentaries that get value.
@ Everyone else that left a comment, we thank you very much for your interest and kind words. Even if you didn’t leave a comment, we thank you for reading and your interest in Bido. What we have is really a revolutionary platform. There’s a lot of additional innovative and exciting things we’ll offer with Bido as time goes by. Please register for an account if you have yet to join:
http://www.bido.com
Best Regards, and Happy New Year!
Jarred Cohen
@Jarred - does Bido still plan to market each auction? I remember before you were marketing them on Adwords like Dickinson the geo names.
@LittleDevil - Yes we will, each auction gets various forms of marketing to end users.
If you would like to submit your domains for consideration to auction, please visit http://www.bido.com
Best Regards
Its already 2-2-09 still no signs of come back?.how much more time will it take.