Pretty much everybody knows by now that Bido.com has closed down after auctioning domain names for 2 years and Auctionpus.com is starting up already with an 8 domain a day auction service. Well, before Bido shuts down the site totally or the data available went away, I wanted to pick through it and see some of the actual numbers using Bidos Sales Archive.
So I was going to take all the domains reported sold by Bido in its archive since it started, but it was taking me too long, so I just grabbed all the 2010 data and here is what they look like.
Date Range: 01/04/2010 thru 05/04/2010
Total Calendar Auction Days: 89 (no weekend auctions) I didn’t remove any "holidays or downtime if there were any" I just used the Mon-Fri format from a calendar so the number should be pretty close.
Domain Names Sold : 1,827
~ 703 domains sold at the $28 min price
~ 1,534 domains were sold under $99 or less
~ 283 sold in the 3 figure range
~ 7 sold in the 4 figure range
~ 2 sold in the 5 figure range
Average Domains Sold Per Day: 20.52 (I do not have the Amount That Auctioned each day but I would say it was on the average of 200-300)
Total Amount Of Bids: 3,449
Average Amount of Bids Per Domain: 1.88
2010 Total Sales on Bido (approx 4 months): $166,359
Bido Commission (8%) earned from sales: $13,308.72
~ Per day $149.53
Traffic estimates
Compete stats 23,112 unique visitors
~ Just to compare using DotWeekly.com, Compete states 26,434 unique visitors (which is lower than the actual: approx 40,000/mo or 1,500 per day)
I know some people are "numbers" people so seeing some of these may be a little different way to look at things. We should all know shortly if Bido can find a buyer for the site, technology and the domain name and it will be something that I will keep an eye on.
Leonard Britt
There were also acceleration fees but if you have office expenses, employees to pay plus IT expenses $13K in revenue doesn’t go far…
Stats Guru
40,000 unique visits/month for DotWeekly.com? Is this from Google Analytics or some other stat counting service that may count bots and other non-human visits? That sounds very fishy and seems very high all things considered.
Jamie Zoch
@Stats Guru,
A lot of my articles I write are seen way outside the domain name industry and are seen by niche parts. This allows a lot of unique visitors to DotWeekly daily. The stats service I use does NOT count bots.