Flippa Blog « domains

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently we’ve had a few website sellers come to us saying they’d love to list on Flippa but they’re not entirely comfortable with everyone — maybe competitors or current customers — knowing their website is for sale. Given the pivotal role of the website’s domain in our listings, this was not possible… until now. Furthermore, [...]

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 [...]

Imagine, starting your website flipping project with a domain that already has age, has backlinks, is indexed by the search engines – and may even have accumulated PageRank! Buying an aged domain can potentially give you a leg up when building a website to sell. So how do you discover aged domains to buy? There’s [...]