Bido.com Is Back!

[the_poet]

About two hours ago I received a Like request to join a Bido.com Facebook fan page.

So what does this mean? It means that Bido is back!

I have personally confirmed with an unnamed source that Bido will be coming back soon. In fact, another domainer on Facebook has already pointed out that a new domain is pending votes.

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[shane mac]

Great great news.

 

[Toni]

Great news, welcome back Bido

Can finally use my wealth of unused bido credits :D and have submitted a whole bunch of domains already hehe

Increasing the Bido Minimum Price to $38 is a very good idea, I think this will give the system additional health on the long run.

Jarred, most Bido Users have no voting points anymore (only the ones that paid for them), a good idea to kick start bido again would be to send everyone a couple voting points, if I remember right you used to send 2000 complementary voting points every 1st of the month.. This is needed now already

 

[bgmv]

im glad Bido is back, wish them all the success and hope they can survive

 

[MediaHound]

Jarred,
Is there an official namepros thread where we can submit feedback?

On this page:
bido.com/Auctions
1. I would like to see a column for "Starting bid"
2. another column for "BidoPrice"
3. my pre-bid
4. I would like that table to be sortable for each column title.
5. I would like to see some filtering options such as extension.
6. When submitting a domain I would like it to ask what language the domain is. A few known languages and another option that says "none" will do.
7. I would like to see a language column on that page (bido.com/Auctions page)

8. Also I would suggest to use "Reserve" instead "BidoPrice". It is one less thing newcomers need to learn.

9. Let's say I'm interested in dot com domains that start with "logo". However I'm only interested in high quality domains. The voting system is a great tool to sort quality domains from the rest.
I want to subscribe to email notifications for logo***.com type domains that are voted high quality by other domainers.

Thanks
Erdinc

Hi Erdinc,
Feedback means a lot to us, so we setup this page to organize and prioritize the ideas, and allow you to see what has been suggested and how strongly the community is voting for those ideas: http://www.bido.com/Feedback You can vote up the other ideas people suggested to show your support for them.

So, thank you for your suggestions. The /Auctions page is an old page that we left on the site but what replaced it were the tabs on the homepage. So we dont plan to do much at /Auctions as most of the development went towards the tabs UI, which is still being worked on.
You could visit the Auction tabs, and in the lower right corner of each tab is an icon where you can download a csv of the data in that table and it will give you nearly all of what you are looking for aside from the Language fields.

If /Auctions is important to you however, you could write your ideas on our feedback page so we can prioritize them.
The filtering capability and most of the other things are already offered on the auction tabs. You can filter by extension by typing in the tld field.
We also do plan to revisit the whole "BidoPrice" label and simplify that as you said. This is one thing we already plan to do.
A "Watchlist" is something we also plan to introduce and we'll be able to use the data like what appears in our Interest Gauges to allow you to really fine tune the items that you are notified that may be of interest to you.
We have a lot to get to to overhaul some of the things we identified that could be improved so it will be a race against the clock, but we're on it. Keep the feedback coming and I hope I addressed your points. Happy to discuss more and thanks for your support.

Regards,
Jarred

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Great news, welcome back Bido

Can finally use my wealth of unused bido credits :D and have submitted a whole bunch of domains already hehe

Increasing the Bido Minimum Price to $38 is a very good idea, I think this will give the system additional health on the long run.

Jarred, most Bido Users have no voting points anymore (only the ones that paid for them), a good idea to kick start bido again would be to send everyone a couple voting points, if I remember right you used to send 2000 complementary voting points every 1st of the month.. This is needed now already

Thanks, this is under review. One of the things that allows us to balance quality of listings is how many complimentary voting points we give out. So we aim to find the best balance for all. You can certainly your Bido Credits and exchange them for some voting points in the meantime. You earn back whatever you vote for if it sells, plus a lot more.

 

[glaxxon]

Welcome back bido...

 

[Archangel]

I made a suggestion but I won't post it here. But you can view it http://feedback.bido.com/forums/338.../1174075-issues-with-points-possible-solution Again though, I hope for the best.

 

[Blake]

Great news bido is back.....Maybe it's just me but the speed of the website is very very slow on my end. Perhaps it's being flooded with visitors because of the return perhaps? Either way great job bringing it back and opening the floodgates again!

Much respect

Blake A. Worthington

 

[MediaHound]

@archangel, thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. I think you will be glad to hear that earlier today, in fact, we issued complimentary voting points to all members. You may go ahead and use them up. We'll constantly review and issue more complimentary voting points as deemed necessary.
@usualcliche thank you for this report. We are working to optimize some areas of the site, we are operating now on an entirely new server system with a whole new behind the scenes architecture, and fine tuning things daily. This is also why we are launching on a softer level right now as you probably noticed. Speed is something we watch and aim to always provide a fast site. We get just as annoyed when pages take long to load and a slow site is not acceptable, agreed.

 

[bluesinjid]

Glad to see bido is "back". Can't wait till the launch, and hopefully it will be more successful

Edit: Its actually back up!!

 

[m-i-k-e]

@ MediaHound

Any possibility of an option for deleting domains from our accounts. My account has a bunch of domains in it that I no longer own, I also have some names that I'd like to submit but they were previously sold on bido and I get a message saying that the domain already exists in the system.

 

[mitok]

Hey Jarred and all Bido lovers. This is a great news!!! I am really happy to see Bido active again. I never stopped hoping it will be active again.

I already submitted one domain for voting

I saw this news here on NP, but havent received any email notification from Bido. I think email notification should be sent to all previous members.

Also, i would suggest that you disable multiple subitting of domains so that member can add only one domain at once, as i already noticed many submitted domains of low quality. With adding one by one domain member will not be interested to add 100 low quality domains at once for voting and better quality domains would be seen and receive enough votes for auction.

 

[alistair80]

Great news seriously. I had bought some great domains there

 

[mexfi]

I received an email from Bido this morning, i couldn't beleive it but yes "BIDO is back" YES!!!
I hope, you won't stop again. I was really sad when you stopped
BIDO is the best place to sell easily and fastly!!! Waiting for Voting Points

 

[silentg]

When are they going live again?

 

[m-i-k-e]

When are they going live again?

They are live

 

[MediaHound]

@ MediaHound

Any possibility of an option for deleting domains from our accounts. My account has a bunch of domains in it that I no longer own, I also have some names that I'd like to submit but they were previously sold on bido and I get a message saying that the domain already exists in the system.

Hi TriplePen, I was asked by the moderators here to not provide support on this thread anymore, since it was posted in the "Industry News" forum...
So could you please mail me at [email protected] or write us on http://support.bido.com and I will help you there. Thanks for your understanding, wish I could be of more assistance on this thread but rules are rules.

 

[the_poet]

As a new Bido customer, I'd like to ask a question: are auctions the only way to sell/buy domain names at Bido or, like Sedo, it also uses the offer/counteroffer system?

 

[Archangel]

It is possible to use BINs, too.

As a new Bido customer, I'd like to ask a question: are auctions the only way to sell/buy domain names at Bido or, like Sedo, it also uses the offer/counteroffer system?

 

[the_poet]

So you can choose to reply to someone by sending them a counteroffer instead of pushing the name to auction?

Another question regards the BidoPrice/voting system. How does it work?

Thanks.

 

[MediaHound]

The moderator of NamePros asked me to not answer questions about Bido on this thread, because this thread title is about "Bido is back".
Rules are rules...
Please if you could mail your questions to me, [email protected] or ask on our support desk: http://support.bido.com or come onto live chat on our support site. Here are some other links that may help: http://www.bido.com/VoteForProfits http://www.bido.com/Info/BidoPrice