The data for the Most Actives, Top Sellers, Top Selling Niches, and Most Active Site Flippers is based on the market activity at Flippa.com. As the largest and most popular marketplace for site flippers right now, the market activity there provides valuable insight on what people are buying and selling.
MOST ACTIVES
iPhoneToolBox.com – 49 Bids
Websites focused on the iPhone continue to be widely popular. This auction launched with a starting bid of $10,000 and received 49 bids – resulting in a sale of $39,500! This was a content-rich site that was monetized primarily with advertising – $750/month alone in banner advertising. The website was averaging 150,000 unique visitors per month with net revenues around $1,750 per month.
Given the fact that Apple recently won a lawsuit where they took 16 domains from a guy who owned iPhone-related domains, I’m not so sure I would feel comfortable paying close to $40,000 for a domain with an Apple trademark in the domain, but based on all the bidding on this auction, I’m in the minority with my concerns. See auction here.
www.BreastMassages.com – 44 Bids
Well the name of the domain alone certainly caught my attention only because I’m a slightly immature male – and apparently it caught the attention of a lot of other people as well with over 1,700 auction views and 44 bids. Looking closer at the auction, however, what you were mainly getting was a three year old two-word domain that was averaging around 8,000 unique visitors per month. The website was only earning roughly $50 in monthly net revenues. The website itself was just a squeeze page. It sold for $810. See auction here.
GoOnTo.com – 40 Bids
This social network geared for professionals started with a bid of $500 and ultimately generated 40 bids and sold for $3,700. This is another website where the buyer was buying purely on “potential” as the website wasn’t generating any revenue and was only a year old. It was averaging around 6,000 unique monthly visitors. See auction here.
TOP SELLERS
www.MyTopFans.net – $50,000
This was an interesting sale in that it wasn’t your typical website or domain for sale. This was a popular Facebook application with over 400,000 fans. The application was generating no less than $2,000 per month with the daily income in February averaging around $370. The revenue was generated exclusively via Google AdSense. See auction here.
iPhoneToolBox.com – $39,500
As the most active auction last week, it’s not a surprise that it would also end up in the top three sellers for last week as well. I’ve already covered the gist of this auction and I’m still not sure I would pay that much for a domain with a trademark in it. Would you? See auction here.
TopTorrents.org – $13,000
This torrent site was established over four years ago and was averaging around $1,400 per month in net revenues and 250,000 monthly unique visitors. I’ll be honest here, I don’t know much about torrent sites so I can’t really comment on them other than to say most torrent sites attract legal trouble given the nature on how they work (peer to peer file sharing). In this auction, however, the seller was explicit in stating that his site was completely legal and hasn’t had a legal issue since it was established in 2005. See auction here.
TOP SELLING NICHES
The Health (Diet) and Internet Marketing (Affiliate Marketing) niches continue to be the most popular from week-to-week. A new entrant last week was the Gadgets niche. These are the niches you should be concentrating on if you’re a regular website flipper.
MOST ACTIVE SITE FLIPPERS
These are folks that are obviously selling on a regular basis. And if they’re doing this on a regular basis, then they must be doing well or they wouldn’t bother. You should check out their profiles and see what they’re doing. As a buyer you may find a site that interests you and as a seller, you can see what type of site flipping business they operate to give you some ideas;)
*You can view the profiles for these sellers by clicking on their names but you need to be logged into your Flippa account to view them.
5RDesign – had 5 sites for sale
duncanmae – had 5 sites for sale
MxMedia – had 4 sites for sale
GLANCING AROUND OTHER MARKETPLACES
Warrior Forum
I think it’s becoming official, the Warrior Forum is your go-to-place for website packages for under $50. Most of the websites for sale here continue to be turnkey/template websites that come complete with keyword research, an ebook that you can sell, and other extras. Here is an example of one of these packages. The seller of that particular package is a very active website flipper and is selling a lot of her website packages.
Digital Point Forum
The bulk of the websites for sale continue to be under $150 although the clone script site in this auction sold for $950 in one day.
WebsiteBroker.com
This marketplace isn’t terribly active. There were only about 20 new listings in the past week. What gets listed here continues to be a mixed bag of interesting listings. You’ll find everything here from a $150 listing like this one to a $2 million listing like this one!
BuySellWebsite.com
This marketplace is similar to WebsiteBroker.com in that there isn’t a lot of activity and what gets listed can be interesting. Take this auction, for example, where a website is being sold that sells infrared saunas. According to the listing, it generated over $120,000 net profits in 2009. The owner is asking $120,000 for it.
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