Buying Websites

Video: Using Flippa’s Advanced Search

by Ophelie at Flippa 1 Comment

With an average of 2,000 sites listed at any moment on Flippa, sifting through pages of listings that don’t match your desired criteria can be time-consuming and frustrating. Today we put together a short video that explains how to use Flippa’s Advanced Search function to weed out websites that don’t match what you’re looking for, More »

Guest Post: 5 Ways to Value a Website

by Ophelie at Flippa 16 Comments

Internet Investment Summit May 18-20, 2012 | Las Vegas, NV

Today’s post is by David Gass of BuyingAndSellingwebsites.com. David is one of the organisers of the Internet Investment Summit, happening May 18 – 20 in Las Vegas. Note that early bird tickets end 20 April! Ask five website buyers what they think your website is worth, and you’re likely to get five different answers. Each More »

Guest Post: the DN Attorney’s perspective on buying a website

by Ophelie at Flippa 13 Comments

Zak Muscovitch’s last post on copyright and trademark was wildly popular and prompted a great discussion in the comments. He has agreed to expand on his original post with his perspective on buying a website.    After spending about 12 years as an Internet lawyer who specializes in website and domain name transactions and disputes, More »

Questions and Answers with Escrow.com

by Ophelie at Flippa 64 Comments

Money at hand

Once a website has been purchased, the next step is the exchange of funds for domain ownership and website files. While there are several ways to transfer funds, including PayPal and wire transfer, Flippa always recommends using an escrow service, such as Escrow.com, to protect both buyers and sellers. We receive a lot of questions More »

Guest Post: the Domaining Diva on Due Diligence

by Ophelie at Flippa 14 Comments

Money and Magnifying Glass

Today’s guest post was written by Suzanne Bucciarelli, a graphic designer, blogger and website developer. Her main blog, Domaining Diva covers topics including buying and selling websites and domains and other related topics. There are plenty of bargains on Flippa, but when you are considering buying a site (from anywhere), you must be careful that More »

Flippa Goes Black Against SOPA

by Andrew Knibbe 7 Comments

You may have noticed that our logo went black in support of the protest against the anti-piracy bills – bills which have serious concerns for anyone owning, creating, buying or selling websites. This is part of the tremendous effort around the web for 18 January. You can join the biggest online protest in history at More »

Guest post: Transferring your new website

by Ophelie at Flippa 19 Comments

So you’ve just bought a website, and decided to transfer your new site to a different hosting company. The process of taking ownership of a site and transferring from one host to another can be daunting, but it’s a valuable experience and often a good idea. We spotted a fantastic how-to on the transfer process More »