flip.uk - .UK Domain Auctions and Marketplace

[lazarus]

Hi all,

The Acorn popular auction feed box is now fixed (Hopefully)

I can confirm that it is not using WordPress. I was for the few weeks for the splash / add interest site. It is using a heavily adapted commercial solution.

It is not sitting on your standard cPanel/Plesk web hosting account. It's built on a Dedicated server running a minimal Linux distro with a custom LAMP configuration.

For DNS to work the way it does for domain parking. I needed full control over the DNS server in order to configure it in a very specific way. If you point a domain at flip you get the main page or the listing page if one exists. Conventionally for this to work on a standard DNS server a domain alias or a cname record would need to be created. Flip handles these incoming requests on the fly without the need for an entry in DNS.

Because of the 'magic' that happens at the DNS level, I cannot easily flick it over to use something like Cloudflare

Even good traffic like Google bot... When a search engine decides to crawl your site it takes up a little bit of resource. In flips example. Times that by X thousand domains that are pointing to flip and times amount again by the many other search engine companies. That's a lot of traffic! 95% of the time it handles traffic very well

I have lots of ideas going forward on how to develop it further. Unfortunately for me, over the past few months, I have been recovering from emergency surgery due to the sudden onset of something called cauda equina syndrome. It's a slow recovery process but getting better now and also very thankful and lucky to catch it just in time. As a result, it has limited the amount of time I can spend sitting in a fixed position when working on the computer.

Cheers, Laz

 

[webber]

I'm no expert but these PA values can't be right, right?
Was the moz api updated recently?

 

[bluerock]

Just my opinion but I’d consider replacing the latest marketplace listings with maybe a top sales section.

The latest market place listings section tends to be hogged by way way overpriced crap…sorry to be blunt which discredits the site. Highlighting (verified) sales would be better.

 

[LCHappy]

I have been recovering from emergency surgery due to the sudden onset of something called cauda equina syndrome. It's a slow recovery process but getting better now and also very thankful and lucky to catch it just in time. As a result, it has limited the amount of time I can spend sitting in a fixed position when working on the computer.

Maybe time to invest in a standing desk? A lot of us sit way too long and don't realise until it's too late. I've had these desks for a while and they are great to stand and sit as you feel the need.

Hope you are on the mend, best of luck

 

[lazarus]

Hi all, All sorted now.

Blimey, a PA of 1841 is pretty good!

Turns out there was a slight change in the API that skewed the results.

Cheers, Laz

 

[lazarus]

Just trying to gauge interest.

For people that have their domains parked on flip, would a Bodis integration be of interest? I know a few have asked in the past.

Once integrated this would allow you to link your Bodis account. The default would of course be not to show until you turn it on in your dashboard.

Bodis has approached me and I have a catchup call with them soon.

Cheers

 

[Paullas]

Hi Laz.

I hope all is well. Just a quick question, Do you have to have the nameservers set to Flip to list domains?

 

[Systreg]

@Paullas, no need to set nameservers for the Flip marketplace, you only need them set if you start an auction.

 

[Paullas]

@Systreg yes noticed that, just the auctions i was asking about.

Asnamesevers take a good few hours to change you have to change nameservers then wait then add the domains, maybe do what DL does where you can add the domain to auction as normal and then when approved and has started you can then change the nameservers.

Just my thoughts

 

[webber]

There is no need to wait for dns propagation.
I believe it checks the Whois so changes are picked up instantly in my experience

 

[Systreg]

^^^ Yes, I've been adding auctions, I set the nameservers and then do the auction listing straight away.

I did forget the nameservers on one yesterday, went to start the auction and a notification appeared stating to set the nameservers, which I then did, refreshed the listing page and the auction was added.

Agree with Webber that Flip checks the Whois, and then the auction will get approved to start the next day.

 

[lazarus]

Hi @Paullas

@Systreg & @webber are absolutely correct , it checks the Whois so no need to wait for propagation
Any other questions, just let me know.


Cheers, Laz