Bido launches on June 18 with its one name per day format.

You can find out more here:
http://www.thedomains.com/2008/06/11...ff-on-june-18/

What do you think of the list of names?

Here's the list:

DiscountImages.com June 18th
GolfIowa.com June 19th
RYY.com June 20th
GoldAuction.com June 21st
SpywareHelp.com June 22nd
DomainTalk.com June 23rd
VacantRoom.com June 24th
CerealBox.com June 25th

I assume pool was a type for poor?

I thought they were selling names for others...

Those names appear to be owned by Bido partners.

Originally posted by trader
I assume pool was a type for poor?

Yes. Must have been a Freudian slip. Could a mod please correct that?

Zero excitement in that list, not exactly taking a big risk listing those.

Why the negativity?

Most likely because the domain world is not really interested in yet another auction site. There's simply too many of them.

I thought the whole concept was to offer real top tier names on a platform that helped showcase them - that list is unimpressive given all the hype.

Originally posted by safesys
I thought the whole concept was to offer real top tier names on a platform that helped showcase them - that list is unimpressive given all the hype.

Agreed, it makes you wonder what has been rejected!

I think if anyone has a business model for getting names to sell right now its Rick Latona - several names per day, fixed prices not auctions.

I'm not sure one-auction-per-day is a model likely to get many names moving.

Originally posted by Chad
I thought they were selling names for others...

Those names appear to be owned by Bido partners.

Bido House Rules:

http://www.bido.com/about.php

3. Founders and employees of bido.com and their relatives are not allowed to bid/participate in auctions indivisually.

http://www.domainstate.com/showthrea...5&pagenumber=4

After all the hype - this is all they could come up with...
It's already taken a massive hit to its credibility with that list.

I doubt the business model (1 auction a day) is viable on its own.
It's not like any other existing domain auction player can't replicate that..

The art world would have done it years ago if the 1-auction-a-day model worked better than the current model of auctioning around themes eg artist, country etc

By having some random domain at auction each day, BIDO will only ever attract - gasp - domainers, unlike certain Moniker auctions based around themes eg casino, where it can attract to end users.

Originally posted by Aggro


By having some random domain at auction each day, BIDO will only ever attract - gasp - domainers, unlike certain Moniker auctions based around themes eg casino, where it can attract to end users.

From what I can see of it, the themed auctions aimed outside of domainer groups never seemed to have had much success.

I think if anyone has a business model for getting names to sell right now its Rick Latona - several names per day, fixed prices not auctions.

agree - bar having expert opinions strapped to every domain, ricks approach makes for a clean and focussed exercise and he gets sales.

Originally posted by safesys
agree - bar having expert opinions strapped to every domain, ricks approach makes for a clean and focussed exercise and he gets sales.

Agreed.

I wonder if Bido aren't making things too complex with the "experts", the auction format, and the hype.

Why not just...

1) Get some good names
2) Put them in a newsletter
3) Click send