How it works
Short, because there is only one mechanic.
01Rank is total paid
Every payment a listing makes is added to that listing's running total. Rank is that total, highest first. It is cumulative, not last-payment-wins — a product that paid $10.00 five times sits at $50.00, not $10.00.
Ties are broken by who got there first. If two listings hold the same total, the one whose first payment landed earlier ranks higher.
There is no quality score, no editorial pick, no engagement signal and no algorithm. The order of this page is the order of the money.
02One listing per domain
A listing is a domain. Links are normalized before anything is charged — the scheme is filled in, www. is dropped, and query strings and fragments are stripped — and the resulting hostname is the identity.
Paying for a domain that is already on the board adds to the row it already has. You cannot buy the same site two rows, and you cannot split a total across duplicates.
Link shorteners, IP addresses and anything that is not http or https are rejected. A listing has to show where it actually goes.
03Taking a row
To pass a row you must end up strictly above it — at least $1.00 more than its total. The board prints the exact number next to every row and recalculates it on every render, against whatever your domain has already paid.
You do not have to aim at #1. Paying less still puts you on the board, in the position your total buys.
04Amounts
Every payment starts at $1.00, whether it is a new listing or a top-up. A single payment is capped at $50,000.00.
The amount that counts is the amount actually collected by the payment processor, read from the payment webhook. Taxes and processor fees are not part of your total.
05No refunds
Payments are final. There are no refunds, ever — not for being passed, not for changing your mind, not for pasting the wrong link, not if the site shuts down.
Being passed by a product that paid more is the mechanic working as intended, not a fault.
06What a paid row is and is not
A paid row buys placement on this page and the clicks that come with it. That is the entire product.
It is not an endorsement, a review, a security assessment or a recommendation, and nothing here is tested. Outbound links carry rel="nofollow noopener" and the click redirect sends no referrer, so a paid row passes no ranking signal to a search engine. Anyone selling that is selling something we do not offer.
07Takedowns
Listings can be hidden at our discretion, without notice and without a refund: malware, phishing, scams, illegal content, hateful content, impersonation of another product, or anything that puts the payment processor at risk.
Some domains are blocked outright and can never be listed. A payment that lands on a blocked domain is recorded and traced to the email that made it — and still does not appear on the board.
A hidden listing stops appearing on the board, stops counting toward anyone else's rank, and its click link starts returning a 404. The money is not returned.
08Identity and contact
There are no accounts. Identity is the domain plus the email used at checkout, and that email is recorded against the listing so a payment can always be traced back to whoever made it.
If somebody listed a site you own and you want it gone, mail the address on the checkout receipt. It gets hidden. It does not get refunded.
09No guarantees
This is a status game with a price tag. It is provided as-is, with no promise of uptime, traffic, clicks, conversions, attention or continued existence. Buying a rank buys a row on this page and nothing else.