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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 [...]

Edit note: the threshold for Premium Buyer Certification was lowered form $5000 to $2000.  We’re seeing a big increase in websites listed on Flippa over $2,000 and to further improve Flippa’s ability to provide an effective and secure marketplace for these transactions, we’re introducing Premium Buyer Certification. This will make it just a little harder [...]

A domain scam has been roaming the internet for a while now that aims to trick domain owners into providing their account details into a faked GoDaddy.com page. The scammer then sells them off as fast as possible on any number of domain marketplaces. Unfortunately it seems that it is back in circulation and catching [...]

As part of our effort to assist buyers in making informed decisions on buying websites, Flippa has put together a Buying Websites panel for the 2011 Affiliate Summit East taking place in New York from 21-23 August. The proposed panel “Secrets to Buying Established Websites for Profit” will be hosted by Flippa Co-Founder, Matt Mickiewicz [...]

BRW have released their Top 100 Fast Starters for 2011 and Flippa is making a debut at number 75! Needless to say, we’re humbled by this achievement as a testament to our valued customers and the vision of Flippa’s founders in creating a dedicated marketplace for websites. Someone who has been working on Flippa since [...]

The way in which sellers list websites on Flippa is changing today to make it easier to get your website up for auction. Why Is the Process Changing? Feedback from our website sellers is that our old website listing process was less than ideal. OK, I’ll be honest, I even read someone on a blog [...]

The total value of websites sold through the Flippa website marketplace raced past the $50 million mark this week. This is a massive achievement for a marketplace that opened its doors in June 2009 with only 300 website listings – today it is more than ten times that with over 3,500 websites and domains being [...]