Tag Archives: bido

Fri 18th July 2008
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How to Solve Auction Submission Bias with Financial Incentives - Solving Submission Bias with Financial Incentives Long time users of Craigslist bemoan that there’s so much spam on the site. Google for “craigslist submitter” and you’ll see ads for software that will automatically submit ads to Craigslist every few minutes. But there’s a simple solution to this problem: if Craigslist charged 25 cents per ad submission, the volume of spam would drop overnight but the volume of legitimate submissions would hardly change. When ... read more ...
Thu 10th July 2008
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Is Bido.com an Early Success? You Betcha. - Plenty of Naysayers, but Bido is making an impact. If you read domain name message boards you probably think domain name auction site Bido is a failure. I beg to differ. People keep pointing to the “bargains” people are getting on the site. Bargains? What bargains? These same people are watching the auctions, so why aren’t they bidding if these are such great deals? With rare exception, it’s hard to get a bargain on mid-market domains in a domain auction ... read more ...
Wed 9th July 2008
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Auction Watch: Pizzerias.com during $94,000 - A look at current domain auctions of interest. Moniker’s next live domain name auction is this weekend in Chicago at the GeoDomain Expo, but there’s plenty of auction action going on right now. The big auction is Pizzerias.com, which has a bidder at 60,000 EUR ($94,000 USD) at Sedo. Perhaps the domain is flying on the coattails of the Pizza.com sale? The auction ends in 4 days, and now that Sedo has implemented its buyer verification process, this deal is likely ... read more ...
Thu 3rd July 2008
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Bido Drops “Guarantees” In Domain Auctions - Bido.com no longer guarantees a sales price to sellers. After gaining experience from a couple week’s worth of domain auctions, Bido has made a sweeping change. It will no longer “guarantee” a certain sales price to sellers. Bido cofounder Sahar Sarid noted on his blog “Looking at domain submissions we learned that if you state that you are willing to give a guarantee if certain guidelines followed, domain owners will submit anything and everything for ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2008
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New Domain Name Auction Platform Bido Launches - After long delay, Bido has launched. Newcomer Bido has entered the domain name auction scene. The platform, launched in part by Sahar Sarid, features only one domain name auction per day, bids start at $1, domain names have no reserve, and Bido guarantees a minimum sales price to sellers. It’s good for domainers to see more competition in this space, especially from a company that’s trying to throw a couple curve balls into the game. Bido includes social aspects ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2008
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Ron Jackson Resigns from Bido.com - DNJournal editor cites conflicts of interest in decision. Ron Jackson of DNJournal has always been known as “Mr. Nice Guy” and a class act in the domain industry. He recently joined up with industry veterans including Sahar Sarid to start Bido.com, a domainer platform for managing domains, selling domains, and several other future services. Previous to this venture, Jackson had never ventured into the actual business side of domains (other than owning a portfolio ... read more ...
Tue 19th February 2008
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Bido.com Unleashed…sort of. - What is Bido.com? We now have part of the answer. Bido, a new domain company founded by DNJournal editor Ron Jackson, Recall Media founder Sahar Sarid, and a couple other Recall Media employees had its official launch party in Las Vegas last night. After a couple months of suspense, we now know what the guys are up to. Well, sort of. It appears that Bido will be a platform of services for domainers. According to a post at DNJournal, the company will roll out daily ... read more ...