This just posted on Conceptualist.com which is the blog of Shara Sarid, owner of Bido.com.

“We gave it another shot today but still had major tech issues. We believe the right thing to do now is to spend time figuring out the issues and come back when we are ready. It may be few days, weeks, months, none of us really knows.”

I think this is a great approach from the Bido team. They have created an amazing auction site but now need to catch up to it’s traffic. This is just a small step back, but as the saying goes “one step back, two steps forward”. I am sure Bido will be back in no time, stronger than before.

After writing this post I went to Bido.com again, it seems that even though the site was down they are reporting the sale of FixedLoans.com for $5,281. If this is true that means the seller lost money. As reported in a previous blog post the domain was purchased at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C auction for $10,000.

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Bido.com went down today in the middle of an auction.

Is it Rick Latona’s fault? Some would wonder, follow me for a minute. Rick purchased FixedLoans.com in 2004 for $1,000. He then sold the domain name at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C event in 2006 for $10,000. Here we are now two years later and the new owner of FixedLoans.com has decided to sell with Bido.com. With all the excitement over a premium domain there was an abundant amount of traffic coming through on Bido.com’s servers.

So I ask again, is it Rick Latona’s fault? Think of this, what would have happened if Rick did not sell the domain at auction two years ago. I will let you determine the answer.

Either way no worries! From what I read the auction will be restarted tomorrow at 1pm. I for one will be there to see what happens. I was bidding for the first few minutes, then it went above what I was willing to spend.

PS…Along with the sale of FixedLoans.com, Bido implemented a new chat feature, which I’m sure aided in overloading their servers. Hmmm is this the cover-up story so Rick doesn’t get blamed. Of course I’m kidding about Rick. He is an amazing domainer and has done a lot for our industry. Check out his website, RickLatona.com and then Bido.com at 1pm tomorrow for the auction.

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I am a personal reader of Mark Fulton’s work.  Mark is a young busy entrepreneur, it took about a week to get this interview completed, but worth the wait.  He has created a great domainer blog through DotSauce.com.  In fact, congratulations to Mark for being one of six domain blogs featured in the July issue of Modern Domainer Magazine.

Lets get to the questions and answers.

Q: How old are you Mark?
A: I am going on 25 years November 6th, where I will be at the Texas Domainers & Developers Conference, come celebrate with me!

Q: What is your educational background?
A: I attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for almost 3 years and decided to launch my own internet businesses which took up too much of my time. While some might call me a dropout, I consider myself on an “extended break” and hope to finish up my last year sooner than later! I hope to major in Professional Writing.

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First I want to say thank you to everyone that has visited DNKitchen.com.  As of today we have reached 1,000 unique visitors, not bad for just launching last week.  To everyone who has picked us up via RSS Feed, that is a huge compliment, thank you.

We are adding a domainer comic strip to the site later this week.  I am currently working with several artists for unique work.  The comic strip will be added once a week which I think will be Wednesdays, we can call it Wacky Wednesday. 

We have two extremely unique articles coming very soon, “Real Estate vs Domaining” and “Part Time Domainers”.

Upcoming Interviews:

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Originally I wanted to meet with Donny Simonton of Parked.com because I own a little over 700 domains and had no clue what parking was. I am somewhat new to the business and did not know what to do with all of them. After reading about his company and their accomplishments I wanted to consider parking some domains.

We emailed back and forth a few times on one of the domainer forums. After a few brief talks he took me up on my offer for lunch. A few days later I met him at his Tampa, FL headquarters.

What I saw made me sick to my stomach…

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