I was about to bid and my screen froze up. At first I though it was my PC, but I checked the site several times and it wouldn’t load. Darn!
It will be interesting to see what Bido does. Rerun the auction etc. The last bid that I seen was around $5,600 ish.
More to come on this breaking story…
UPDATE: I just tired going to Bido.com at 1:46 pm CT (about 30 min after first downtime) and got the following:
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So they are clearly having server issues and this problem is not fixed yet. Their system could of been overloaded due to the large amount of blogging about FixedLoans.com . Their were 56 bids the last I was able to check but I’m sure Sahar will get things worked out and offer a fair solution for all bidders and the seller.. More to come as I hear it.
It sounds like FixedLoans.com will be for auction again Tomorrow (8-20-2008) at Bido.com and expect to run at 1PM EDT. Sahar said they were testing a new chat feature. Why they did this during a live auction, I am not sure.
MD.
This is bad, and they say it´s because they tested a new chat application, they do that LIVE!? and in the middle of an auction, bad move! I smell a hack..
JS
Do the servers that can’t handle a single name auction or chat test, hold users’ credit card numbers?
conspiracy
hmmm.. anybody thinking what I am? That the bids were way too low, and bido pulled the plug to give the domain one more day to pull more bidders in?
**Jamie Says**
One could think this, but I do not think it’s the case here. They just simply crashed the server with the buzz of the domain at auction. I personally didn’t see the new chat feature, but they said they were testing that as well, which I can see adding some bandwidth.
Jarred Cohen
First and foremost, thanks for the blog post Jamie. Sorry about the trouble with the Bido site but please allow me to address MD & JS, and state that infact we were not hacked (Bido and DNZoom have bank-level security), and to anonymous poster “conspiracy”, we did not pull the plug because bids were low. Infact bids would have been much higher if our clients were able to log onto our website! As seen by the original blog post of Jamie’s, above: “Posted by: Jamie Zoch – I was about to bid and my screen froze up.”
The chat feature was rolled out prior to the auction start but our auctions currently get the most action towards the end of the auction, rather than at the start when the gates open each day at 1:00PM EST. So the load incrementally increased towards the end of the auction, when it reached the point that it was too overbearing for the server to handle and clients who wanted to bid were unable to.
We have ceased all auctions till the hardware and software issues are redesigned, rewritten, and stress tested much further.