Great work with the site! I have a few minor austhetic and user friendly suggestions... Here goes:
1. Why is an auctions current bid called the 'Max. Bid'? I don't get it - a little confusing at first, or have I missed something? It doesn't make sence to me...
2. Listing Title - Is there anyway to limit the auction title? I would rather look through a list of auctions in the same way you do on Sedo - just the name 'no bullshit' I think something should be in place to stop people posting an auction with the title 'The greatest domain in the world, aka the one and only XXXX--->>>>LLLL.com<<<<---XXXX etc It would make browsing lists a whole lot easier. Also making the 'Item Title' column wider would help.
3. Listing Title (in auction) - I think this needs to be bigger and bolder. I clicked on one auction and had trouble finding what domain I had clicked on! I think the auction title (i.e.: the domain) should be more prominent on the actual listing page... its a bit tucked away at the top.
4. Registrar and Expiration date - should be compulsary? Just a thought... maybe not such a great one but I would prefer to see this on every auction.
5. 'Next Step', 'Previous Step' buttons - When creating an auction these are reversed... The 'next step' button should be on the right because thats its natural place because you are moving forward. This is a user friendly type suggestion - a little like the back/forward buttons in IE - imagine if they were the wrong way round!
6. Alt tags on images -i.e.: in an auction under 'seller information' there is a 'me' icon and a 'shop' icon - these should have alt tags - one thing I do before clicking on a button that I dont know what it does is hover over to get an idea of what it does do from the alt tag...'
A few suggestions which I hope are constructive!
Love the site and hope everything works out! I'm sure it will...
And to all those that don't think the UK is the centre of the world! Think again! It was nice to register on a site that has UK at the top of the list!! A first! lol
1. I'll look into getting Max Bid changed to "Current Bid" -- seems like a more appropriate title.
2. I noticed that too and I'm at fault here for starting it off listing "no reserve" after a few of my domain auctions. I'll post it on BQB in the news section as a "best practice" suggestion for now and make it a requirement on June 06, 2008, complying with the 30 day advanced notice policy I've made for major modifications on BQB.
3. Will look into what can be done to fix that.
4. I can make it mandatory through the coding that the fields contain text but I can't really control what people put in them (incorrect registrars or expiration dates aren't things the software can check for). Nobody is doing themselves anything but a great disservice by excluding this info (unless their registrar is EuroDNS or NetSol, in which case I'd want to pretend I didn't know where it was registered either! ).
BQB has alot of "hidden" features, like Abuse Reports which I'm definitely going to have to elaborate on in a much more in depth Help section in the near future, which may be able to assist in enforcing such a rule.
5. Changed.
6. Great suggestion Rich, will look into getting that added.
Yep, Ross is 100% correct. One word domains certainly fall into the scope of being "short", but there just isn't enough demand at the moment for names like Cars.com in example.
Most of the 84 members BQB has so far are NPers, with a few from the other forum (most are also NPers) and a couple from Rick's board. We don't have any "endusers" yet that I'm aware of for generics, but I'm sure that will change with time.
I think I read it in tthis thread but now can't find it anymore - is it possible to find out how many domain names a person owns if you know one of his/her domain names ?
I think having a one-word or a "pronounceable" category would be terrific.
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Few LLLL.com For Sale (at eBay<~ Feel free to copy if you'd like lmbo): AXCM.com ("Axiom" ) SPMQ.com ("Sub-Prime Mortgage Questions" ) -- Kuzm.com (Pronounceable ) xSRP.com (T-P+X ) -- QSNM.com ("Quality S n M" )
Yes, DomainTools is excellent. I'm actually using it (along with some other things) to help try and limit scammers from signing up on BQB.
It might be a bit discriminating and it's certainly not always the case, but most scammers don't have thousands of domains -- so how many domains someone owns does in some sense serve as a trustmark.
If they own a ton of domains at a particular email address and nothing fishy shows up in Google (with that email address), that's a pretty good 2 minute "confidence check" that everyone should do when dealing with someone they don't know (along with not allowing Paypal, but... ).
We broke 100 members on BQB earlier today, which I largely believe Michael Goldman and Richard from Namepros are to thank for, having made posts about BQB on their popular blogs.
Just want to thank everyone supporting BQB however they can so far -- be it with a sig link, be it by telling a friend, or be it by making a blog post. It's all adding up and is greatly appreciated!
I dunno, I just popped one of my domains in there (DomainTools' whois) and it said I only own 9 domains?? I use the same email and mailing address for all my domains but I have a heck of a lot more than 9.
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Few LLLL.com For Sale (at eBay<~ Feel free to copy if you'd like lmbo): AXCM.com ("Axiom" ) SPMQ.com ("Sub-Prime Mortgage Questions" ) -- Kuzm.com (Pronounceable ) xSRP.com (T-P+X ) -- QSNM.com ("Quality S n M" )
It doesn't find them all, however to the best of my knowledge, it's quite accurate at not over-predicting what someone owns (unless they sell domains and the whoises aren't changed). It currently says 2554 for rockyberg(at)hotmail.com (my domaining email), which is pretty close to what I actually own.
I think something should be in place to stop people posting an auction with the title 'The greatest domain in the world, aka the one and only XXXX--->>>>LLLL.com<<<<---XXXX etc 
It would make browsing lists a whole lot easier. Also making the 'Item Title' column wider would help.
It was nice to register on a site that has UK at the top of the list!! A first! lol 
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