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The outbid.lol clone wave, counted: 512 boards, when each domain was bought, and what each one has taken

Updated live from this directory. Numbers below were computed Sep 14, 2026, 16:45 UTC. Money figures were last read off the boards themselves; registration times are permanent registry records.

What the data says

1. The format was copied in hours, not weeks — but not in the first hours. 193 of 512 domains carry a public registration timestamp. The first was bought 12.7 hours after outbid.lol went live; 22 followed within a day and 189 within two, peaking at 20 in one hour.
2. The money did not follow. outbid.lol has taken $259,489, 73.8% of the total. Everything built after it has taken $92,121 put together.
3. Clone earnings are as concentrated as the format itself. The top ten clones hold 64.4% of all clone money.
4. A typical clone earns pocket change. Median $20.44; 263 of 332 measurable clones have taken under $100.
5. Being early is the whole game. The earliest quarter of the wave has taken $10,249; the last quarter, $1,061.
6. They are still up. 430 of 512 boards passed their most recent automated check; 82 did not.

Live: boards found, and dollars found

Both lines only go up, and both are counted the same way every time. As of Sep 14, 2026, 16:31 UTC the directory holds 512 boards, and the 333 of them whose totals can be read add up to $351,611, of which $92,121 belongs to boards other than outbid.lol. A sample is written down every fifteen minutes and no sample is ever edited, so this chart is a record rather than a redrawing.

“Dollars found” is the sum of what the indexed boards say they have taken, not a measure of the format’s growth: the line jumps when a sweep finds boards that had already been earning for a day, and a board whose figure cannot be read contributes nothing. It is a floor on what has changed hands, and it rises both because these boards take money and because we keep finding more of them.

How fast were the clones built?

Slower to start than the story suggests, then all at once. outbid.lol first served a page at Aug 19, 2026, 19:41 UTC (its domain had been bought 1.9 hours earlier, at Aug 19, 2026, 17:47 UTC). The first domain that anyone bought in order to copy it — out of every board in this directory and every dead, parked and rejected candidate checked alongside them — came 12.7 hours later. After that the copying is genuinely fast: 22 domains inside the first day, 189 inside two, and 20 in the single busiest hour, one every 3 minutes.

What the first flat stretch is, and is not

It is not a claim that nobody had copied outbid.lol yet. It is a claim about domains: for roughly half a day, nobody who copied it bought a name for it. A clone thrown onto a free vercel.app or pages.dev subdomain never touches a registry and hides under its host’s wildcard certificate, so it is invisible to everything this page measures. One board in this directory is on such a subdomain; there may have been others that morning that nobody kept.

The right-hand end of the chart is cut off by the calendar, not by the trend: it stops at the newest domain this directory has found so far, and boards registered after that have not been discovered yet.

How much money is actually in this?

$351,611 across 333 readable boards, and it is not spread around. outbid.lol holds $259,489 of it — 73.8% of every dollar the format has taken. The remaining 332 boards share $92,121, and within that group the same shape repeats: the single richest clone holds 27.1% of clone money by itself.

Clones, richest first	Taken	Share of clone money
Top 1 clone	$25,000	27.1%
Top 3 clones	$37,720	40.9%
Top 5 clones	$47,756	51.8%
Top 10 clones	$59,363	64.4%
Top 20 clones	$72,485	78.7%
Top 50 clones	$84,157	91.4%
All 332 measurable clones	$92,121	100%

What does a typical clone make?

The median measurable clone has taken $20.44. That is the honest headline number, and it is nothing like the average of $277, which one or two outliers drag upward past almost every board in the set. 114 clones have taken under $10; 33 have never taken a payment.

Does being early pay?

Yes, and by a margin that dwarfs every other factor measured here. Sorting the dated clones by when their domain was registered and cutting them into four equal groups, the earliest quarter has taken $10,249 between them and the last quarter $1,061. The gap is not a few days of head start; the whole wave is 49 hours wide.

Registered in the…	clones	taken together	median	at $0
Earliest quarter hours 12–26 after outbid.lol	31	$10,249	$53	3
Second quarter hours 26–35 after outbid.lol	31	$30,171	$13	5
Third quarter hours 35–38 after outbid.lol	31	$9,727	$33	3
Last quarter hours 39–49 after outbid.lol	33	$1,061	$12	7

What do they rank?

The original ranks websites, and most copies kept that. The rest re-aimed the same mechanic at whatever their author already cared about — X profiles, AI agents, tokens, games, whole countries on a map. Money follows the same order as the count only loosely; the categories with the fewest boards are not the poorest.

Category	boards	share	taken
Websites & products	257	50.2%	$31,709
AI tools & agents	65	12.7%	$13,617
X accounts	64	12.5%	$5,438
Ads & billboards	38	7.4%	$33,996
Crypto & tokens	28	5.5%	$327
Games & clips	26	5.1%	$223
Regional & other currencies	21	4.1%	$4,232
Directories of bid sites	13	2.5%	$2,580

How do they take the money?

Card checkout is the default and crypto is the loud minority. Of the boards that state a rail, Stripe is the most common (18 boards); the rest run on stablecoins, Solana, Lightning, Monero, UPI and an agent-payment protocol that will not sell to humans at all. Most boards state a minimum bid of a dollar or less, which is the point: the format works by making the first bid trivial and the last one expensive.

Where did the domains come from?

Overwhelmingly from one top-level domain and a handful of cheap registrars. 389 of 512 boards are on .lol, which is what happens when a format spreads by imitation of a name as much as of an idea. NameCheap registered 56 of them.

How many are still up?

Almost all of the ones that have been re-checked. Every listed board is re-fetched on a schedule and re-read for a ranked price ladder: of the 512 checked so far, 430 still show one and 82 do not. The other 0 were verified when they were listed and have not come round again yet, so they are reported as unchecked rather than as alive.

A board that fails twice running is delisted, which is why this directory shrinks as well as grows. Two days is far too early to say anything about how many of these survive the month — that is a number this page will be able to answer later and cannot answer now.

Every board, with its numbers

All 512 verified boards, richest first. “Taken” is each board’s own published figure in its own currency, printed exactly as the board states it; “domain bought” is the registry timestamp and the hours between it and outbid.lol’s. Blank cells are numbers the board does not publish.

How this was measured

Three independent sources, none of them a survey and none of them an estimate.

• Which sites count. A candidate is fetched from the edge and read for a ranked price ladder — #1 … $N, #2 … $M — alongside the vocabulary of bidding. Pages that ship no HTML are rendered in a headless browser and judged on what the browser saw. Click-ranked boards, fixed-price pixel grids and revenue leaderboards are rejected: the money has to buy the rank.
• When each one appeared. RDAP, the public registry protocol that replaced WHOIS, gives the exact second a domain was registered. Every date here was read from two independent RDAP endpoints and they agree exactly; a sample was cross-checked a third way, against the not_before of each site’s first published TLS certificate in the Certificate Transparency logs, which lands within about two hours of the registry timestamp either side. 319 of 512 domains sit in registries that will not answer, and they are excluded from every timing figure rather than guessed at.
• What each one has taken. Each board’s own published total, read off its page (or its stats endpoint) and preferred over any figure we could compute ourselves. Where a board publishes no total, the standing bid ladder is summed and the figure is marked as a floor. Foreign currencies are converted at fixed rates recorded on the day of measurement.

What these numbers cannot tell you

• Revenue is what boards claim, not what they banked. Nothing here is audited. A board that inflates its counter will be reported at its inflated figure. Boards whose displayed figures are not their own takings are left out of every money figure here. They stay in the census, because they are real boards, and their rows read “not counted” rather than “not readable”. That is 6 boards at the moment: freeoutbid.lol (its board is one paid bid and a ladder of free listings, priced but never sold), outbidder.lol (its leaderboard is a copy of outbid.lol’s, down to the bids), outbidsocial.com (its own page says it is in free launch mode, so nothing on its board was paid for), outfake.lol (its own rules call the rows unpaid reference listings, filled in because no paid bid is active), underbid.lol (displays totals its own board does not support), viralsites.fyi (its total is what the 128 sites it tracks are estimated to have earned, not what it has taken).
• 179 boards cannot be read at all and are absent from every money figure. They are not counted as zero, so the totals above are floors.
• The census is a floor too. This is every board that has been found, not every board that exists; the count has risen with every sweep.
• Money is cumulative, not current. Most of these boards let a bid stand forever, so their totals only go up and say nothing about whether anyone is still bidding this week.
• The last hours of the chart are incomplete by construction: a domain registered an hour ago has not been discovered yet.
• A clone that never bought a domain is invisible here. Deployed to a free vercel.app or pages.dev subdomain, it leaves no registry record and no certificate of its own. Every timing claim on this page is about domains, and is a floor on how fast people actually copied the format.
• Hour zero is a measurement, not a press release. It is the first TLS certificate outbid.lol published, which is when it demonstrably started serving. Its own About page says it launched at “11:08 PM” and names no timezone, so that sentence is quoted here and used for nothing that requires arithmetic.

Questions

How many outbid.lol clones are there?

This directory has found and verified 512 pay-to-rank boards as of Sep 14, 2026, 16:45 UTC, including outbid.lol itself. Every one was checked automatically for a ranked price ladder before it was listed, and the count rises with each sweep, so it is a floor rather than a census.

How much money have outbid.lol clones made?

The 333 boards whose own figures can be read say they have taken $351,611 in total. outbid.lol itself accounts for $259,489 (73.8%), leaving $92,121 across all 332 measurable clones.

How much does a typical outbid.lol clone make?

The median measurable clone has taken $20.44. 114 of 332 have taken under $10 and 33 have taken nothing at all, while the top ten hold 64.4% of all clone money. The average of $277 is a number almost no clone has ever seen.

How fast were the clones built?

The first domain bought to copy outbid.lol came about 13 hours after outbid.lol itself first served a page, and the copying was fast after that: 22 domains within a day, 189 within two, and 20 in the busiest single hour. That half-day of quiet is a fact about domains rather than about clones — a copy deployed to a free subdomain buys nothing and leaves no record, so these figures are a floor.

Is it too late to launch a pay-to-rank board?

The money says the window was the first day. Clones whose domains were registered in the earliest quarter of the wave have taken $10,249 between them; those in the last quarter have taken $1,061, with a median of $12.

Where do these numbers come from?

Registration times come from RDAP, the public registry record that replaced WHOIS. Money comes from each board's own published total, read off the page itself (rendered in a headless browser when the page ships no HTML) and converted to dollars at fixed rates. Nothing is estimated: a board whose figure cannot be read is reported as unreadable, not as zero.

Reusing this

The figures on this page are free to quote, chart or republish with a link back to outoutbid.lol/research (CC BY 4.0). The underlying directory is available as JSON at /api/directory.json, documented on the data page, with a feed of new boards at /feed.xml. If you run one of these boards and a number here is wrong, the submit page reaches a human.

Suggested citation: outoutbid.lol, “The outbid.lol clone wave, counted”, Sep 14, 2026, 16:45 UTC. https://outoutbid.lol/research