Bido.com announced some changes to their auction system. Sahar posted the changes to his blog Conceptualist.com yesterday.

List of changes:

1. You can comment on expert commentaries
2. You can submit up to 100 names for consideration compared to the 10 allowed before
3. You can submit adult domains
4. Experts can vote on submitted domains
5. Starting Monday there will be multiple auctions running per day (Bido does not run weekend auctions)
6. Each listed item has its own item chat as well as a global chat for all to participate.

Here is a screen shot of the submitted names page that Bido experts will be allowed to select from. As of right now there are about 280 names to vote on. This number will increase substantially very soon. The current setup is to click through the pages and select the ones you like. I talked to Sahar today and they are looking to improve this setup. With adding that many more names to vote from, there is a need for a system with categories. We will see how this progresses. I know for myself, I will not have the time to sort through thousands of names to vote on domain names.

I read Andrew’s article of DomainNameWire.com about the changes and liked what he said about comments “Previously, you could only give a ‘thumbs up’ to an expert commentary about a domain name. Now you can leave a full comment, either reaffirming or disagreeing with the expert’s analysis. This will make the comments more fluid, and many of these experts will learn what it’s like to be a blogger”. I asked Sahar about this and there will be no moderation for these comments. I take that back, he said as long as they are professional they can be negative or positive.

In talks with Sahar today he hinted of some additional changes next month. He would not give me any details but to say the following, “We have another big release coming next month, it’s already built but we didn’t want to overwhelm the market with new stuff” and “Soon we will have more than a domain channel”. Now I can’t speak for Bido, but I’m going to assume they will allow the sale of fully developed sites and services, guess we’ll have to wait and see.

In the mean time if you’d like to submit your domain name for auction do so here.

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It’s official, Aftermarket.com’s Domain Roundtable 2009 auction is over. Grand total with 92 domain name sales is $580,974. Highlight of the auction was the sale of Contests.com for $380,000.

The below results are directly from Aftermarket.com.
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Aftermarket.com auction is starting in just two hours!!! Don’t worry, if you couldn’t make it to the Domain Roundtable 2009 event in person you can still bid on any of the available domain names starting at 4pm est.

With starting bids from from $1 to $300,000 there is a domain name for every class of investor. In fact, if memory serves me correct today’s auction will host more domain names than I have seen from them before. So not only good prices but more options.

We are in a buyers market!!! Buy something

I have watched Aftermarket.com auctions before and love the online system they have setup for bidding. It is extremely easy to use, watch along and enjoy.

Here is a small list of my favorite names you will see today…
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Thank you to Rick Schwartz for sharing this YouTube video of the bidding war for AD.com. Auction was held by Moniker at the recent TRAFFIC event in Silicon Valley.

The winner was Divyank Turakhia owner of Directi and Skenzo.

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Thank you everyone who attended, donated and helped with today’s charity auction. Special thank you to the winning bidder, Jarred Cohen. Jarred’s donation of $2,120 will help big time, that is a full weeks worth of food for the animals.

To read more about the auction visit my previous post, Domain Names Helping Animals.

The auction may be over but you can give at any time. Here is the direct PayPal link for Hacienda De Los Milagros.

As Sahar said today, gotta give before you receive

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