Rules

outbidded.lol is a bid-to-rank leaderboard. There is exactly one input to the ranking — the size of your bid — and these are the rules that input plays by. They are short on purpose; nothing here is negotiable, and there is no appeals process.

Ranking

• Ranks are ordered by bid. Highest bid is #1, second-highest is #2, and so on down the board. Ties go to whoever got there first.
• The minimum outbid is $1 over the rank you're taking. If #1 holds the crown at $40, taking it costs $41.
• Raising your own bid charges only the difference. Hold a $100 spot and want $150? You pay $50, not $150.
• Bids never expire. Your listing is not rented by the day. It stays on the board at the amount you paid, and it only moves when someone else pays more.
• Ranks are not reserved while a payment confirms. If someone claims the spot you were aiming for while your transaction is in flight, your bid still lists at its full amount.

Payment

• Bids are paid in USDC. Send from any supported chain — Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, OP Mainnet, Avalanche, Linea, Monad or HyperEVM — to a single address. Settlement bridges to Ethereum automatically.
• A bid counts when the payment confirms on chain, not when you submit the form. Confirmation is usually seconds; the board reorders itself the moment it lands.
• All sales are final. Getting outbid does not refund anything. That's the game.
• Underpayments and overpayments count as what arrived. Send $37 against a $40 invoice and you are listed at $37.

Listings

• Keep it legal. Listings pointing at scams, malware, phishing, or anything illegal get removed without refund.
• Your listing shows your own metadata. The title, description and icon are read from the page you list — change them on your site and they update here.
• One listing per domain. Bidding on a domain that is already on the board raises that listing rather than creating a second one.

Links and SEO

Every outbound link on the leaderboard carries rel="sponsored nofollow" and clicks route through a counting redirect that is disallowed in robots.txt. This is not an oversight — placement here is paid, and selling followed links violates Google's link spam policies. A spot on this board buys you attention and click-throughs from people. It buys you no link equity whatsoever, and anyone selling you the opposite is putting your domain at risk.

Changes

These rules can change. Bids already placed keep the amount they were placed at. If you want the background on why any of this exists, read the about page, or go straight to the leaderboard.