The big debate, parking or mini-sites.

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I just have to share this news, well, because I own DomainSubway.com. I am extremely proud of the changes that have been made. Below is the old, click here to see the amazing transformation.

SmashFactory.com, Bidjit.com and Escrow.com are teaming up to hold a 3 day online domain name auction in which part of the proceeds will benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This auction is a wonderful way for domainers to be able to “give back“. There is a 15% auction fee, of that auction fee 10% will be directly submitted to St. Jude’s by Escrow.com. The remaining 5% will cover any auction and escrow fees.

If you wish to sell a domain name it must be submitted to SmashFactory.com before September 15th.

Our parent company DomainSubway.com will not only be submitting a few domain names for auction but will definitely be buying a few as well.

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.

There is no doubt in my mind this comic holds true, dot COM is KING!!!

I want to thank DebacleX for the idea, he posted a comment on last weeks comic with a similar idea. I changed the scenery but the same concept. For this DebacleX was given a GoDaddy gift card for a domain name of his choice.

Don’t forget, submit a suggestion for my next comic strip to win a free newly registered domain name of your choice with GoDaddy.

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.

It is that time of the week again…
With everything going on with the dot this and dot that I thought this would be fun.

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