According to a post on its company blog, Flippa.com sold $2.15 million dollars in domain names in 2014.
“It’s been 13 months since Flippa’s Domains division officially put itself on the map. ”
Beginning with less than 850 open auctions, our domains platform found itself accommodating over a quarter million by year’s end.
We reached $2.15 million in gross sales, a 50% increase from 2013′s slate. ”
In its blog post, Flippa.com is point to a DomainSherpa post calling itself one of the top 5 marketplaces.
I’m not sure what the criteria was for making the top 5 “marketplaces” but clearly $2.15 million dollars in sales for a year pales in comparison, to all the other 4 marketplaces listed on DomainSherpa, Sedo, Godaddy, DomainNameSales.com, Afternic.com, which report sales in a week or two of the year that equals Flippa annual sales figure.
You can read the entire blog post here including some plans for 2015 on Flippa
It’s too bad we aren’t getting regular reporting of aftermarket domain sales from Godaddy, Afternic or DomainNameSales right now. Without Sedo, Flippa and the drop catcher sites there could hardly be a decent weekly domain sales report.
$2.15 million per year would not put Flippa in the top 5 domain market places.
Sedo, GoDaddy Auctions, DomainNameSales, Afternic – you mention those 4.
NameJet reported $6 million during 2014. And that’s ONLY counting domain sales above $2,000 apiece.
If drop catchers tally up all their little sales, as Flippa is doing, several of them would outrank Flippa.
Flippa is roughly comparable to NetFleet.com.au, which sold about $1.54 million worth of .com.au domains during 2014.
HA.com – with far far far less inventory – has grossed over $1.5 million during a single auction event.
RightOfTheDot’s recent NamesCon auction through SnapNames was hovering around the low 7-figure range, wasn’t it? Same as Flippa but for basically a month-long promotion.
Do we know the sales volume for Chinese domain market places?
I suppose brokerage firms such as DomainHoldings don’t count as “market places”. But their business dwarfs Flippa’s – $9.6 million during Q3 of 2014.
And I guess we’re ignoring all the domain newsletters. Some of the more successful newsletters might be about as productive as Flippa. Hard to tell.
Of course, we’d have to set aside many large portfolios and their websites, which may outsell Flippa. HugeDomains isn’t the only one, by any means.
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Flippa seems bigger than it is because it makes a disproportionate amount of noise in amateur domainer circles. It has bought its way into several blogs, which publish Flippa sales incessantly (and perhaps investigate the market place’s more dubious activity less than the same writers would without sponsorship). And there’s a steady jingling of bids on Flippa, only a fraction of which are real. So if you’re a domainer reading blogs and seeing bids below reserve, Flippa does seem very busy.