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No one at Flippa HQ is Irish, but on March 17th, aren’t we all? To celebrate the day, we’re hosting a giveaway for your choice of a $50 Amazon voucher, or 50 Flippa credits. We have chosen one listing from the Flippaarchives. The first Flippa user to leave a comment with the URL of the [...]

  When we introduced Premium Listings back in December, we at Flippa HQ thought the idea of extra visibility, premium placement for a listing and dedicated support for listing creation and bid management might be a little popular. Three months later, 145 listings have been upgraded to Premium. Let’s have a look at how those [...]

The last few months have brought many changes to Flippa, including the introduction of Premium Listings, and with almost 1,500 new listings last week, the Flippa marketplace is growing faster than ever. We’re now seeing more sites on offer than ever before, including many high-end listings. Not only are more sites being listed, but more of these [...]

We hit a new record for new listing creation last week, with just over 1,400 sites and domains listed for sale. While creating a listing and managing an auction usually goes off without a hitch, this hike in listings has resulted in more support tickets. Instead of slowing us down, this increased demand has led [...]

Once a website has been purchased, the next step is the exchange of funds for domain ownership and website files. While there are several ways to transfer funds, including PayPal and wire transfer, Flippa always recommends using an escrow service, such as Escrow.com, to protect both buyers and sellers. We receive a lot of questions [...]

Image:  s_falkow After last week’s guest post on Due Diligence with the Domaining Diva, we bring you a guest post by Zak Muscovitch, also known as the DN Attorney, on trademark and copyright. Buying a website or online business can be an exciting time. It would be terrible if you spent a lot of money [...]

Today’s guest post was written by Suzanne Bucciarelli, a graphic designer, blogger and website developer. Her main blog, Domaining Diva covers topics including buying and selling websites and domains and other related topics. There are plenty of bargains on Flippa, but when you are considering buying a site (from anywhere), you must be careful that [...]

We’re always trying to make the bidding process more transparent to maximize confidence for both buyers and sellers – and allay concerns regarding shill bidding to some extent.Our latest addition to the Bids page makes it easier to see a high level summary of the bidders – how many listings they have bid on and [...]

  Sometimes an afterthought purchase winds up being worth a tidy sum. That’s exactly what happened to Chris when he acquired Paid2Review.co.uk, a directory for paid surveys and cashback websites,  as part of a bigger website purchase. “We bought a larger business based on the websites, database and income potential. Paid2Review was a bonus, really [...]

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 [...]