Flippa


Flippa is a marketplace for buying and selling online businesses, based in Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco.

History

Flippa was founded by Mark Harbottle and Matt Mickiewicz as the SitePoint Marketplace, and was spun off as a separate website in June 2009. By 2015, it had traded more than $140 million in websites, domains, and mobile apps.
Half of the Flippa's revenue comes from selling the websites, while the sales of domain names contribute to about 30% of the deals. Most expensive sale up to date was planetrx.com that sold for US$1,200,000 and the most expensive domain name was StockPhoto.com sold by buy now price for US$250,000. Other notable websites and domains sold through Flippa have included Mark Zuckerberg's former website Facemash, overnight success story, shipyourenemiesglitter.com, and Retweet.com. During the 2012 US Presidential election, the domain name RomneyRyan.com was listed on Flippa reaching US$8,050.00 in bids, but did not sell. Next year it dropped and was sold via GoDaddy for US$235.00.
In May 2015, Flippa.com bought Domain Holdings, the domain name brokerage firm based in Florida.
On August 27, 2015, Potato Parcel was sold on Flippa for $42,000. Previously, the viral website ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com from creator Matthew Carpentor sold for $85,000.