Rules
14 of them. That is the whole system.
The terms say the same things in the language a payment needs.
- 01
Rank is spend
Your place on the board is the total you have paid into it this round. There is no algorithm and no editorial deciding it. Ties go to whoever got there first.
- 02
A dollar at a time
Passing the name above you costs the gap between you plus $1. You cannot leap the board with a single enormous bid, which is what keeps it moving instead of freezing behind one buyer.
- 03
Entry starts at two dollars
A new listing joins at $2 or more and lands wherever that puts it. You do not have to aim for the top to be on the board.
- 04
Rounds close and half your spend carries
Each round runs 72 hours. When it closes, every listing keeps half of what it spent and moves onto the new board automatically, so a lead fades rather than vanishing and money spent late in a round is never wasted. Keep the seat by adding to it; a name nobody defends halves each round until it drops off. Final standings are kept permanently under Past rounds.
- 05
Winning is permanent
Spend decays and boards reset, but finishing a round in first place does not expire. A name that has won carries the mark wherever it appears, and the record stands under Past rounds.
- 06
Keep or drop
Anyone signed in, other than the person who listed it, can vote keep or drop on a name: worth its renewal, or not. It costs nothing and it never moves rank, only spend does that. One vote per account; switch it any time.
- 07
Domainers is free, and separate
The directory at /domainers costs nothing to join: a handle, a link, sign in once, and you are live immediately. It has no spend, no rank and no round, and it never affects the board — rank there stays bought, not given. A bad entry can be taken down after the fact; the sign-in is what keeps that rare.
- 08
Clicks are public
Every listing shows the outbound clicks it has earned. You can see what your money bought, and so can everyone else.
- 09
Domains and websites
Everything here is for sale. A domain is a bare name; a website is a name with something built on it, which is a different asset at a different price and usually a different buyer. Both are ranked on the same board by the same rule, and the tabs are a way of looking at it rather than two separate contests.
- 10
Every listing names its price
You have to say what you are selling it for. That figure is yours, not an appraisal, and it sits beside what you have spent to rank so the two can be read together. A row without a price is just a link.
- 11
Websites can show what they earn
A website listing can state monthly revenue, and the board shows the asking price as a multiple of a year of it. Both figures are the seller's own and nothing here verifies them. Leaving revenue out is allowed and means only that it was not stated; it is never shown as zero on your behalf.
- 12
Links are cleaned
Tracking and affiliate parameters are stripped from sale links. Rank here is bought openly, not smuggled through a redirect.
- 13
Bidding spends a balance
You top up once and every bid draws down from it. Adding credit takes an email address and no password, and the smallest top up is $2, exactly one listing.
- 14
Payments do not come back
Bids are final. You are buying a position and the attention that comes with it, not an asset.