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A look back at 2011.

Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Ophelie at Flippa

With only a few days left in 2011, we’re taking the time today to do a quick review on your year, and to ask you about your Flippa highlights of the last 12 months. Before we take a few days of rest to enjoy some barbecue on the beach (we are, after all, an Australia-based [...]

State of the Website Economy: Which Niches Sell at a Premium? (Infographic)

Posted on December 21st, 2011 by Ophelie at Flippa

Every now and then we get a chance to step out of the auctions and do a deep-dive on some of the incredible website transaction data we’ve gathered over the years. We did this some time ago when we looked at the influence of domains on a website’s value. For this installment of the State [...]

New feature: Premium Listings

Posted on December 8th, 2011 by Ophelie at Flippa

  We’re rolling out a new feature today to highlight some of our premium website listings. With more than 1500 auctions open on Flippa at any moment, this new feature helps sellers of high-end websites really highlight their auction and make it stand apart from the rest.  Premium Listings have distinctive styling and priority placement [...]

CASE STUDY: First-Time Website Seller Finds Success!

Posted on October 31st, 2011 by Andrew Knibbe

Robert Birming isn’t one to shy from adventure. So when the bricklayer-turned-musician-turned-web entrepreneur received requests to create an English-language version of his Swedish site Smidigt, he jumped right in. “I couldn’t have asked for a better start,” Robert explains. “Many of the major blogs posted about the fact that an English version of Smidigt, GeekAlerts.com, [...]

Website Sells for $300K Using Confidential Listing

Posted on March 23rd, 2011 by Andrew Knibbe

The biggest site change in Flippa so far in 2011 has led to the biggest website sale so far for 2011. Earlier this month we released a new way to sell websites without disclosing the identity of the site itself – potential buyers would need to sign an Non-Disclosure Agreement to get further information – [...]