A strange thing happened at Flippa the other day
Flippa.com has been in the domainer limelight recently, due to the notoriety of turning a deaf ear to removing listings of trademark domains. However, something new popped up that might change the way that most domainers review live domain listings for sale. At Flippa, a listing contains a link to the domain or web site […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa-flopping: Domain attorney guest post all while trademarks are being listed
Sounds remarkably ironic that Flippa – the Australian marketplace for trading domains and web sites – is hosting a guest post by Zak Muscovitch on trademark and copyright matters. Time and again we pointed out to Flippa support that they are allowing blatant trademark violations to be listed for sale at Flippa.com After our first […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa.com takes their ‘Flippa’ trademark seriously – Threatens to sue domainer
Nothing wrong with protecting one’s mark, service mark or trade mark. That’s the reason the certification exists in the first place. Australian domain marketplace, Flippa.com, contacted the owner of the domain name Flippex.com threatening to sue if he uses the domain for monetary gains. The story gets really interesting, considering that the owner of Flippex.com […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa: Starting 2012 with yet another Trademark Violation listing
It’s the new year and it’s ridiculous that Flippa.com – the Australian domain auction platform – continues to allow obvious trademark violations on its marketplace. An example can be found here. Famous marks, like Apple’s iPhone are protected aggressively; Flippa maintains that unless the trademark holder complains, they won’t do anything. The problem is, once […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.How domain scams work at Flippa
When Flippa transitioned from the feedback system that eBay and other venues use, it opened a can of worms. Because Flippa is not a marketplace like Sedo, where transactions are exclusively handled via the venue itself, the process of cheating the system is quite simple. When a sale occurs, the seller and the buyer complete […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Fun Sunday with Flippa: Trademark violations
Here’s a short compiled list of trademark violations sold or for sale on Flippa. The Australian domain auction house where domain investors are being talked down, according to Andrew Knibbe‘s post at John Chow’s pro-Blog seems unwilling to utilize any resources in order to exclude obvious trademark violations from its marketplace. The end result: serial […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa doesn’t give a toss about Apple trademarks!
What’s wrong with this picture: a famous trademark that belongs to giant Apple, is being ignored by Australian domain aftermarket Flippa. Just like they did in September when some ignoramus listed a Microsoft-related domain on Flippa, the listing of iPhone-3gs.com is allowed to proceed. Flippa’s response to reports of the listing was that if and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Success: Listed on Flippa, another Stolen Domain is returned to its rightful owner!
In February we uncovered a serial domain thief who successfully sold domain names on Flippa.com The Australian domain marketplace has tightened its authentication rules but in the case of premium domain name AV.net it wasn’t so easy. The thief simply emailed Flippa from the updated Administrative contact; the domain had been hijacked away from the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.More trademark violations listed for sale at Flippa
Earlier today we demonstrated how Flippa.com – the Australian domain marketplace – remained inactive after we pointed out how a Microsoft related domain was allowed to be listed for auction. The response by the Flippa support that they won’t do anything to remove obvious violations of famous trademarks unless they receive a request by the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa encourages auction of Microsoft Trademark Domain to continue
It surely comes as a shock after Australia based Flippa.com openly encouraged the auction of a trademark domain. We are not talking about small fries here; this is not some reference to a keyword of a generic nature but rather, that of almighty Microsoft. A seller put the domain name MicrosoftDynamicsAX2012.com for sale on Flippa. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Brilliant ad – Flippa sticks it to eBay on eBay.com !
This is just fabulous: an apparent Flippa ad that uses eBay’s flaws when it comes down to validating domain ownership – right on eBay! It’s almost certain that the Australian domain marketplace placed this viral listing on eBay.com that alleges to sell …eBay.com for AUS $10,000 as the opening price. The “small print” describes it […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa streamlines Domain and Web Site listing process
Australian domain and web site aftermarket, Flippa, has announced a vast improvement in the method of creating “for sale” listings. The new process, announced earlier tonight – or today, if you live Down Under – at the Flippa.com blog, introduces a progress indicator. Under the new process, a seller would first enter the URL of […]
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