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Earlier this week we came across a great piece of analysis by Ron Jackson over at DNJournal. Ron took a deep dive into reported domain sales for 2011 and made interesting comparisons with 2010. It led us to wonder about how Flippa website sales performed for the same period. To make it comparable, we followed [...]

      When we got rid of the New or Established distinction a few months ago, we also noticed that more and more buyers are using the Date Established metric to separate new sites from old. Just a minute, though – how are sellers defining the date on which their site was established? Is it [...]

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 [...]

How does a year of free hosting sound? How about a weekly newsletter highlighting the most interesting sites for sale on Flippa? You can now visit flippa.com/deals to view offers and deals from Flippa and some of our trusted partners. This isn’t a Cyber Monday deal: it’s valid every day of the year.  

Flippa.com is proud to have received a Rising Star Award as part of Deloitte’s 11th annual Technology Fast 50 of Australian technology companies. The Rising Star award recognizes companies with the fastest rates of annual revenue growth, for companies that are less than three years old. Only eight technology companies were given Rising Star status, [...]

We were thrilled to be awarded “Best in Class” by the Interactive Media Awards today for our recent improvements to website search refinement. The honor recognizes that the initiative surpassed the key standards of excellence that comprise the web’s most professional work. The site was honored specifically for excellence in the Auction category. The judging [...]

Nothing defines our day-to-day activity here at Flippa as much as our relentless obsession with innovation when it comes to buying and selling websites. It’s this drive that has made us the number 1 marketplace for buying and selling websites – the same drive shows we’re not complacent about staying number one too. In recognition [...]

As a website marketplace, we fully appreciate the importance of website buyers and sellers being able to trust the people they decide to do business with. Naturally this notion of trust is different for different people so, as of today, we are laying the single Flippa trust rating to rest. There were three key reasons [...]

We regularly touch base with our website buyers to see how they’re traveling a few months after buying a website from the Flippa marketplace. This is a great way for us to see how we’re doing and to learn a little more about our website buyers. We’re excited by the volume of positive feedback we [...]

Today is our second birthday and its been a wild ride – over 30,000 websites sold with a combined value of $53M. We also regularly have upwards of 1,300 websites for sale at any given point – that’s over 400% more than the 300 we had at launch! To celebrate, we’re giving away 100 credits [...]