Flippa Opens Up Voting For The 1st Annual Flippie Awards

January 2, 2013 by Michael Berkens

Flippa.com, has just opened voting for the first annual Flippie Awards, by honoring some of the best sites sold in 2012.

Nominated websites were chosen from over 29,000 websites and domains that were sold on Flippa.com in 2012.

The Flippie Committee chose sites based on the level of interest they attracted from website buyers, as well as quality factors such as monetization, content and uniqueness.

With 5 separate categories, sites and domains in various industries will be honored with a Flippie.

All of the sites nominated were sold on Flippa where more than $22 million in websites were sold 2012.

Besides bragging rights and tons of recognition within our community and throughout our network, the winners each in category will win:

$100 in Flippa credits, which they can keep for themselves or transfer to a friend.
Winners will be mentioned in the Flippa newsletter, which is sent to over 90,000 Flippa members, along with a link to their latest project or personal site
Winners will also be featured in a press release and in various media

The site that garners the most votes, regardless of the category, will win Best Overall Flippie and serious bragging rights for 2013, in addition to a $250 gift card from Amazon.

Here are the nominations:

Best Site Content

webhamster.com Sold in September for $11,100
rofls.com Sold in September for $10,000
globetrooper.com Sold in October for $75,000
virtualprofessor.com Sold in July for $17,000
militarybases.com Sold in September for $125,000

Best Domain Listing

company.net Sold in March for $23,000
organ.com Sold in July for $41,100
discountstores.com Sold in September for $30,000
salinas.com Sold in November for $60,000
weddingvows.com Sold in November for $60,000

Best Blog Site

tiptoptens.com Sold in May for $100,000
legalhelp.org Sold in June for $25,100
inspiremebaby.com Sold in June for $31,200
lovetheoutdoors.com Sold in August for $37,100
simplysneakers.com Sold in August for $10,000

Best E-Commerce Site

madokamodern.com Sold in January for $85,000
wodrope.com Sold in October for $42,000
prozesta.com Sold in October for $30,100
motorfiend.com Sold in November for $42,300
goldstargames.com Sold in November for $40,000

Best Site Monetization

studyguide.org Sold in February for $34,500
ruletheseas.com Sold in March for $24,000
freelancemom.com Sold in April for $60,000
minti.com Sold in October for $35,000
vacationrental.org Sold in November for $62,200

Best Web/Mobile Apps

coveroid.com Sold in February for $11,300
qhub.com Sold in May for $50,000
ikidapps.com Sold in September for $19,100
pianozap.com Sold in August for $28,350
businessonclick.com Sold in October for $3,750

Voting begins on January 2nd and ends at midnight EST on January 30th. The winners will be announced February 4th, 2013.

To vote click here

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

jose says

January 2, 2013 at 12:18 pm

interestingly, company.net seems to not got through as per thread in namepros if I am not mistaken. nonetheless, it is being reported has a domain sale.
Lara Miller says

January 2, 2013 at 12:25 pm

Hey Jose,

The sale was completed and domain transfered in March.

Thanks,

Lara
jose says

January 2, 2013 at 2:02 pm

@Lara Miller

http://www.namepros.com/83628-report-completed-domain-name-sales-here-160.html

”
There was an issue with the winning bidder.

In the end, Company dot net sold for 25 thousand.
”

words of the seller.
jose says

January 3, 2013 at 5:54 am

so, I guess Flippa also “simplifies” it’s sales reports.