Flippa Blog « Statistics

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 [...]

Just over a year ago, we introduced a feature that allowed website sellers to indicate whether their website was New or Established. The trouble we’ve been seeing as of late is that the distinction between New or Established has become largely arbitrary. Some sellers are listing websites created in the last month with zero traffic [...]

We’ve sold over $50 million worth of websites and have the largest set of data about buying and selling websites anywhere in the world. We find this data absolutely fascinating and thought it high time that we share it with the broader community (rather than just with our immediate friends and family … who roll [...]

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 [...]

While listings, bids and sales are already thundering along on Flippa for 2011, it is worth taking a few moments to reflect on 2010 – the first full calendar year that Flippa has been in operation. 2010 by the Numbers Over 150,000 bids were placed on Flippa website/domain auctions in 2010 which drove the nearly [...]

More than 55% of the auctions on Flippa result in a sale, which is not a bad success rate. However, of those which finish unsuccessfully, almost half have bids – they just fall a little short of the seller’s reserve. Until now, these sellers were left with two options: Re-list their website and go through [...]

Can you find yours? Just in case someone decides to count them, there aren’t actually 1250 sites in the graphic, there’s only about 1000. Still, it’s pretty impressive! March is shaping up to be even bigger.

The boys have slipped some great features in to Flippa in the last few days, and there’s more coming! Flippa on Twitter Followers of Flippa on Twitter know that this week we’re rolling out a great feature, a dispute procedure which gives you more certainty when a sale doesn’t go through. Want to have the [...]