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450 boards, $191,307 reported and a $19 median clone

The whole census in one page, with the arithmetic shown. Every figure here is a floor: these are the boards that have been found, publishing the money they choose to publish.

Data as of 28 Aug 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · no sponsor of this report saw it before publication

450 Boards counted 438 with a registry date.
$191K Reported between them Across 314 boards. Self-published, unaudited.
65.9% Taken by outbid.lol $126,157 of the total.
$19 Median board $19 once outbid.lol is removed.

1 · The money is one board

Of $191,307 reported across the census, the top board accounts for 65.9%, the top three for 80.8%, and the top ten for 87.6%. Remove the single largest and the remaining 313 boards have reported $65,150 between them — an average of $208 each, and a median of $19.

258 boards — 82.2% of everything measurable — have never reported reaching $100. This is not a market with a long tail. It is one business and several hundred demonstrations of it.

Top board
65.9%
Top 3
80.8%
Top 10
87.6%
Top 25
93.6%
Everyone else
6.4%

2 · How fast the copying happened

Registration dates come from RDAP, so this is the one part of the story nobody can massage. outbid.lol’s own domain was registered 19 Aug 2026.

first 24 hours
17 domains
24–48 hours
246 domains
day 3–4
141 domains
day 5–7
20 domains
after week one
0 domains

Registered before outbid.lol: 13 boards, mostly older projects that pivoted. The full timeline.

3 · Survival, two weeks in

417 boards answered on the last sweep. 13 did not, and 20 answered with an error, timed out twice, or sent visitors to a different domain. That is a 92.7% survival rate on a wave whose median board is 7 days old — an attrition figure that will only look worse from here.

A board dying is not the same as a board failing quietly. 6 of the dead ones had reported taking money before they went.

4 · Which categories actually earn

CategoryBoardsStill upReportedPer board
Websites & products 249 227 $147K $592
Ads & billboards 32 30 $28.8K $899
Regional boards 18 17 $5.1K $282
AI tools & agents 30 29 $3.8K $126
Meta-directories 12 12 $3.2K $268
X accounts 59 55 $2.5K $43
Crypto & tokens 27 25 $291 $11
Games & clips 23 22 $273 $12

Per-board figures are dragged upward by one board in whichever category holds it.

5 · Which rules people are actually trying

Single highest bid
412 boards
Cumulative bid
68 boards
Pay the difference
33 boards
Community click
23 boards
Pixel ownership
23 boards
Decay
21 boards
Map takeover
12 boards
Weekly season
11 boards
Daily reset
8 boards
Refundable outbid
5 boards
Charity bid
1 boards

A board can run more than one. Around a third of the census matched no rule wording at all and is filed under the default single-highest-bid reading at low confidence — that is a guess, and it is marked as one everywhere it appears.

6 · Original, and not

Originality here is measured, not judged: for each board, how far its own copy sits from the nearest other board in the census, by overlap of distinctive words. The boards that read least like anything else on file:

And the pairs that read most like each other:

7 · What this report is not

The full method, the raw data, and everyone this is built on.