So last few days since our new release the reviews have been generally positive. It’s only been few short days and I do expect things to evolve. The most important thing for us is for you to recognize while things are not perfect (nor they will ever be) we go out of our way to continue and imp...

Relaxing on Saturday (not really), a number of quick thoughts and links below. 1. A friend, Bido member, yesterday told me this: I Bought It On GoDaddy, I Sold It On Bido! I thought to myself “wow, that’s pretty cool” and then I thought, how many other domains sold on Bido that wer...

A fun Bido review came in yesterday per my request. Via Carpendium: At first I was a bit skeptical and wasn’t sure if it was a good idea to sell my domains at Bido. For a long time, I observed the way things worked at Bido and finally put my domains up for sale at Bido. And I started selling doma...

(Click to enlarge) Today sales, the day is not over yet, still few more to go (see Upcoming Tab). From what we’ve seen earlier, much activity is going to be on WDDD.COM later today. Still a long way to go of course, and we’re well aware, and as always hard at work. Thanks all for the su...

Pretty cool, and just the very beginning of something great (or so we believe). (click to enlarge) The image above is from our internal log, it represents two different bidders, each placed one vote for Ron.CC. If you wonder why one vote and different amount for different users, it is because the e...

We spent literally thousands of hours putting the new release together, so you can imagine, hearing what you have to say is extremely important to us. This is a quick call to those who have blogs, websites, etc. If you write a review about the new Bido release, we will give you a 10 pack of Bido Cre...

This is our newsletter release that will be sent to our members in few short minutes. Questions, comments, feedback, do let us know. Best, Sahar ———– It’s finally here! Bido is excited to unveil quite a few changes to our auction platform. Only moments ago, we overhaule...

I’ll start by saying we are definitely not the smartest business people around. We do things very differently than others, and have done so for over a decade now with various ventures we were involved with. As you are well aware by now, you do not see Bido advertising much these days. No matt...

Left home @ 4AM, got back at 7:15AM, got to see a shooting star (and four others yesterday), hear the birds waking up. Few days ago Michelle and I went to a movie, Invictus, and there Nelson Mandela starts the day early with a morning walk. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. - ...

I got online for the first time around 1996. The first thing I did once online was lookup where to play Chess with others. I quickly found the Internet Chess Club and became a regular. I played many hours a day, at times north of 16 hours a day. Later I started hanging out on Efnet, the oldest IRC n...

My thoughts below were posted yesterday on my Twitter page. I sent a note to Oversee CEO Jeff Kupietzky about our reasoning for accepting the offer. In short, Oversee has been there for many of us over the years. We all know Oversee made major oversights when they bought Snapnames, so it is highly...

To give you an idea what is about to come, here are some of the issues we are addressing in the new upcoming Bido release: 1. Just as $1/No Reserve auctions were limiting, $28/No Reserve auctions are still very limiting, especially in the secondary market. The $28 starting bid No Reserve auction fo...

Slow days on Bido this week, opportunity for few to pick up some great deals. We’ve been extremely busy last few months working on the new upcoming release. As with other major releases, this one again will change everything you know about Bido, hopefully for the better. We’ve said for a...

So far we’ve told you the sales commission is going up from 8% to 10%, and we’ve told you that the number of votes required in order to send a submission to auction is going up as well. What else could be bad news you ask? Lately, I wrote a couple of posts ( 1 ,2 ) about how a “Bu...

Our team is really not going to be happy with me telling you this as well. You see, they want to talk more about the good news, and I want to talk more about the bad news. So if you are sitting, some more bad news your way about the upcoming release: Initially Bido required ten votes to send a doma...

I wrote a little about Flowchart.com, our R&D project, here. While I’m not involved in the day to day operations of the project, I still monitor what people say. Check this out, on Twitter: Pretty cool huh? Good going Jeff! Best, Sahar ...

The upcoming Bido release is just around the corner and we thought, maybe it’s time to share a little about it. Yesterday Jarred Cohen and I attended the South Florida Domainers meetup, where we met with many old and new colleagues. It was a lot of fun and was nicely put together by the organi...

Part I is here Why is “Buy It Now” killing auction houses? We need to look deeper at the concept of auctions vs. the concept of a marketplace. Auctions are driven by engagement, while marketplaces are driven by transactions. On one end of the spectrum, $1/No Reserve auctions are defini...

Good morning, We have a very busy week ahead of us, working hard on a major release that is coming fairly soon. In the meanwhile, many have asked for a more in-depth sales data so we finally put it together and sharing it with you below. We hope you take full advantage of the data presented here. If...

July 13th 2009 was the first day we ran multiple auctions per day on Bido, it was a big day for us; many months of hard work, countless hours of dedication from our team, it was all finally ready to put to the test by the Bido community. A little unusual for business, we do not judge Bido’s su...

I was watching some videos on YouTube and came across this one (below), a neat way to practice a rather difficult Shakuhachi’s Meri/Kari notes ( another video by Perry Yung explaining further here). So as I was watching I was curious who is the person who made the video. Quick search within hi...

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. - Alphonso X ‘the Wise’ of Castile Bido is excited today to announce the release of our customer feedback system, located at Bido.com/Feedback. Not only have we always cher...

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All these were sold today on Bido, and few more still to go in the next few hours. That will put today at approximately 30 domains and an expected sales ratio in the range of 1:2.5 While it may not yet be the results you want we do believe in working from the bottom and building our way up. The righ...

Auctions are underway and if this is any indication, the sales ratio today will be one of the best days we had so far, possibly better than 1:3 ! Lots of great deals flying around. If you choose to participate, good luck ! Have a great day, Sahar Today’s upcoming auctions on Bido are: 11/20/2...