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History · 2026

Four hundred boards in a fortnight

One board launched, took a very visible amount of money in public, and several hundred people rebuilt it within a fortnight. This is what the registry says actually happened.

Registry dates for 438 of 450 boards

outbid.lol’s domain was registered on 19 Aug 2026. The idea it shipped was not new — GoTo.com was ranking search results by bid in 1998 — but the execution was minimal enough to be understood in one screenshot and rebuilt in an afternoon. That combination is what makes a wave.

Within 48 hours, 263 more domains on file had been registered. Within a week, 424. The census now holds 450 boards, of which 13 run on domains that predate outbid.lol entirely — older projects that pivoted into the format once it was obviously working.

The money went to one place

314 boards publish a figure. Together they report $191,307. outbid.lol alone accounts for 65.9% of it. The median board reports $19, and 82.2% of everything measurable has taken less than $100 in its entire existence.

The top of the table, by what each board says about itself:

  1. outbid.lol — $126,157 reported
  2. lamborghini.lol — $25,000 reported
  3. warmap.lol — $3,448 reported
  4. topapp.lol — $3,067 reported
  5. saasbid.io — $1,810 reported

None of that is audited. It is what each board prints on its own page, and a board that inflates its counter is reported here at its inflated figure. Why this site never calls it revenue.

The shape of a copy wave

Three things about this one are worth writing down while it is still happening, because they are the parts that will be hard to reconstruct later:

What it already looks like from the far side

13 boards on file no longer answer, and 20 more are erroring, timing out or redirecting somewhere else. That is 7.3% attrition against a wave that is barely two weeks old. The curve from here is not in doubt; only its slope is.

Which is the reason this archive exists. In a year, most of these addresses will be parked or gone, and the only record that they had rules, prices and a top bid will be a page like the ones in this catalogue.

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