flip.uk - .UK Domain Auctions and Marketplace

[lazarus]

Hi Domain Magic.

If you catch a domain and submit it to auction, you will get an auction page straight away but it just has not started yet.

You can get the url of the auction page from...
Selling -> scheduled auctions. If someone types in the domain this is also what they will see and you can immediately start promoting wherever.

Hope this helps.

 

[lazarus]

Some really nice domain auctions happening right now on flip!

 

[Systreg]

I see listings have watchers, but how do you actually watch a domain?

I've looked through the help page and nothing mentioning it. I assumed there would be a watch this domain button on the domain listing page, but nothing there either, I'm stumped, so how

 

[lazarus]

Hiya, Just click the heart next to the quick bid button.

To see your wishlist / watchlist just click the heart next to the search box. (I will be changing the icons to an eye icon in the next update)

Once you have added a domain to your watchlist you will receive an email the day the auction finishes.

 

[Systreg]

Ah, I only look at the site on my phone, so I don't see a heart icon next to the search button.

Then I just had a face palm moment, when looking at any listing on my phone, it only shows share, print and report buttons under the make offer button, UNTIL, I just turned my phone sideways and then I see a heart icon next to those other 3 I mentioned , now I know.

Had the same problem the other day when I had an offer on Flip, got the email saying there's an offer, go on the site and see the domain under offers received, but can't see the offer listed, UNTIL, I slid screen from right to left and then I saw the offer details slide in to view, bloody phones lol

 

[lazarus]

Hiya,

Yeah some bits, especially in the back end need improvement when using a mobile.
Cheers

 

[Jameso.0]

One thing i find complicated at the moment is finding things in the marketplace. I want to buy domains there but filtering by domain character length doesn't seem possible. Would be grand to get better filtering options in place. Much prefer flip than DL, has bags of potential.

 

[ian]

Colin, noticed if you go into the auctions page, click on 'sold items', the filters no longer work and you cannot filter by highest price first for example.

 

[dee]

Hi Colin. Is it a quick fix to add bulk category change ? Trying to do it one at a time is seconds of fun. Probably should have done something on bulk import should I?

 

[lazarus]

@DJ Wood Sorry for the long delay. I missed this one. Yea I get what you mean. Do you think 28 days is the correct amount of time?

@ian Thanks for reporting that mate.I guess until I fix this you could always take a look on Seemly's cool new site. All closed auctions are fed there.
https://domainsaleshistory.uk/sales?platform=flip&order_by=sale_date&order=desc

@dee Not at the moment, But I can look at adding something like this.

Kindest Regards
Colin

 

[donton]

Checked flip out last night & I like it.

The only thing I've noticed (and it has probably been flagged before but I don't have time to go back through 14+ pages -sorry!) is that on some domains, the domain in the URL doesn't match the domain you're making an offer on?

https://www.flip.uk/listing/< THIS BIT ! >/00000

Otherwise, great job. Looking forward to bidding on a few names.

 

[lazarus]

Hi @donton
I'm glad you like it and welcome to flip.

Please can you give an example of the non matching url thing.

Cheers, Colin

 

[donton]

Hi @donton
I'm glad you like it and welcome to flip.

Please can you give an example of the non matching url thing.

Cheers, Colin

Will pm you now!

 

[lazarus]

On a different note how do the popular listings work as they never seem to change and I have at least one domain that appears to be more popular than most in the list?

Hi @DJ Wood Popular auctions are ordered by bids and then ordered by peoples watch lists. Bids are worth more than watchlists.

Cheers, Colin

 

[webber]

I noticed a bug in the pagination of the feedback for users.
You can never go past page 1:
https://www.flip.uk/display-feedback/webber

 

[lazarus]

I noticed a bug in the pagination of the feedback for users.

Thanks Webber. I will take a look at that over the weekend.

Also just to add. When an auction is new (in the last 24hrs) it will have the "NEW" tag applied to it. This saves you time if you visit the auctions daily. This is also the case for the marketplace too.

Cheers, Laz

 

[lazarus]

I noticed a bug in the pagination of the feedback for users.
You can never go past page 1:
https://www.flip.uk/display-feedback/webber

This has now been fixed

 

[webber]

We mustn't drive sellers away just cause we think the quality of their domains isn't great.
But I agree there should be a limit on how soon a user can relist a domain for auction.
It's a very odd deja-vu when some domains keep reappearing.
And in all honesty if those domains didn't sell the first time, it's unlikely they will sell the second or third time, especially with a reserve.
A different user however should be able to relist a domain asap as there are cases where a domain is bought to be relisted.

 

[lazarus]

Hi @Pedigree

Thanks for your message.

I am indeed in the process of implementing some sort of system to discourage lots of listings that are rotated. There has to be a balance I agree 100%

Domain Quality: The thing about domains is that it is highly subjective. I might think something is of low quality and the next person that is in that industry / field thinks it is of high quality. Who am I to judge?.. So the only way is for the buyers decide what a domain is worth.

The "New" label will show you the latest auctions each day to come onto the platform.

If you don't want to go through all the auctions then just look at the Spotlight section. The cream always rises to the top! This will show you the most popular auctions that are clearly premium or have bids. Also it is easy to see on the All auctions tab, the auctions that are finishing for that day.

Duplicates: Once in a blue moon a duplicate appears. I actually have the modification on my test server and this will be going over to the live server shortly.

I hope this answers your queries. It is a continuing process of tweaking things and when time permits.

Kindest, Colin

 

[lazarus]

Who's in favour of having a broad reserve indicator on the auction page?

For example. For the hundreds range and a hidden reserve of £300 you would see "Low £xxx" and for anything over £500 "High £xxx" Same for the thousand range.

Cheers, Colin

Edit... Maybe in this format across all the ranges (£xx,£xxx,£x,xxx,£xx,xxx,£xxx,xxx)

• Low 0 - 3.5
• Mid 3.5 - 6.5
• High 6.5 - 10