Flippa Blog « Security

Yesterday we wrote about 6 possible warning signs to watch out for in an website auction. Today we’re finishing off our Top-12 list, and asking which ones ring the loudest alarm for you. 7. The seller is deleting many questions or comments from their listing. Now, there’s nothing wrong with a seller deleting spam or [...]

  First-time buyer? Long-time website purchaser? Either way, seller and website due diligence is incredibly important. As the saying goes, “knowledge is power”.  In this two-part series, we’ll be ringing twelve alarm bells that you can use when deciding which websites of worthy of your bid. Stay tuned, kids, there will be a second part [...]

Recently, a few Flippa sellers have been concerned about buyers using PayPal eChecks to pay for websites. We wanted to let you know a bit more about the payment service, and show you how problems may arise so you can avoid it yourself. What Are PayPal eChecks? PayPal’s eCheck option allows its users to make [...]

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 [...]

Listing your site for sale on Flippa? Before you do, make sure your site and account security is bulletproof. As much as the Internet is an amazing place full of tremendous opportunity, there are also a handful of folk making life less ideal for the rest of us. This month saw these charlatans score a [...]

This is a guest post by Martin Gessner, author of the ‘Site Buying Method’ – a guide to understanding how to research and purchase sites for sale. One of the great things about buying an online business is that there is a great deal of information that is publicly available. You can do market research [...]

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 [...]

We’ve recently been in contact with a number of website buyers on Flippa who have voiced concerns at the number of brand new, start-up sites on Flippa with seemingly robust traffic performance. One such buyer known on Flippa as CallMeFlipper suggests that while it is technically possible for start-up sites to get good traffic in [...]

We’re incredibly serious about validating ownership of websites and domains made available for sale on the Flippa marketplace. Flippa has been leading the industry in this regard—we perform stringent ownership validation of each website prior to the listing going live. However, as much as Flippa is about being the best marketplace to buy and sell [...]

If you’ve been wandering the Internet in the past week, you might have noticed some talk about a Firefox plugin called Firesheep. Here’s what our friends at SitePoint had to say about it: SitePoint discusses Firesheep To get past the technical details, essentially this was a problem for anyone using an unsecured wireless network to [...]