Rules & Terms of Use

Market Rules

Transparent rules governing bidding, ranking mechanics, daily resets, and fair play on Outbidr.

1. Bidding & Ranking Mechanics

Outbidr is a live, transparent public attention market. Placement on the leaderboard is determined strictly by confirmed bids:

  • Minimum Bid: All bids must be whole dollar integer amounts between $1 and $10,000,000.
  • Outbidding: To claim a higher rank, your new bid must exceed the target position's current bid by at least $1.
  • #1 Position: The highest all-time confirmed bid holds the top spot on the leaderboard.
  • Non-Refundable: Bids represent direct purchases of leaderboard attention/exposure. Once an order is paid and settled, bids cannot be retracted or refunded.

2. Daily Competition & Snapshots

In addition to the All-Time board, Outbidr runs a 24-hour daily competition cycle:

  • Daily Reset: A new daily competition starts every day at 00:00 UTC and ends at 23:59:59 UTC.
  • Daily Champion: The product with the highest confirmed bid placed during that specific UTC day wins the day.
  • Permanent Archive: Standings at midnight UTC are frozen into historical snapshots and permanently viewable on the Daily page.

3. Listing Policy & Prohibited Content

We enforce strict quality and safety guidelines. The following are strictly prohibited:

  • Malware, spyware, phishing, or deceptive security threats.
  • Illegal goods, services, fraudulent investment schemes, or scams.
  • Hate speech, harassment, defamation, or violence.
  • Explicit adult, pornographic, or non-consensual sexual material.
  • Broken or dead domains with no functional public landing page.

Violating listings will be unlisted or removed without refund.

4. Maker Ownership & Verification

Any user can submit and bid on a public domain. However, product makers and owners can claim verified ownership:

  • Makers can generate a unique verification token on their product dashboard.
  • Add a DNS TXT record or an HTML <meta> tag to your website root.
  • Once verified, your listing receives a permanent green verified checkmark.

5. Terms of Service & Limitations

Outbidr is an independent clean-room software project provided "as is" without warranties of any kind.

  • We do not guarantee specific web traffic, sales conversions, or search engine rankings from your leaderboard placement.
  • We reserve the right to moderate, re-categorize, or unlist domains that violate safety rules.
  • All commercial transactions are fulfilled by Dodo Payments Inc. as Merchant of Record.

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