About this website
Payola is a single highest bid board in the x accounts group: one bid holds the position. a higher bid replaces it outright; the old bid is spent. Its domain was registered on 2026-08-21, 2 days after outbid.lol. It was answering when this site last checked, on 2026-10-11.
“A leaderboard you buy your way onto. Your stake decides your rank, and it burns down a little every day. Stop paying and you fade off the board.” The board’s own description · read 11 Oct 2026
No current screenshot is on file yet.
Board details
The domain record and the ranking rules, separated for faster scanning.
File facts
Identity, status and registry.
- Category
- X accounts
- Layer
- Strict pay-to-rank
- Status
- LiveAnswered with a page on the last sweep.
- Registered
- 2026-08-21Source: RDAP, direct
- Registrar
- Name.com, Inc.
- Timing
- +2 d after outbid.lolMeasured against outbid.lol’s registration
- First listed
- 2026-08-29When the upstream directory found it
- Last checked
- 11 Oct 2026 · 17 min ago
- Rendered read
- 2,191 charactersRead in a browser as well as by plain fetch
- Payment rail
- Not stated
- Currency
- Unknown
How ranking works
Only rules the board actually states.
- Ranked object
- X accountsWhat the board sells a position among
- Rank mode
- Single highest bidOne bid holds the position. A higher bid replaces it outright; the old bid is spent.
- Minimum bid
- Not stated
- Takeover rule
- Not stated
- Reset
- None found
- Decay
- None found
- Refund
- none — the board says soFrom the page: “non-refundable”
- Free entry
- Not stated
- Positions
- Not stated
Not stated means the board does not say; it never means no.
Published data
Figures the board or a named source published. They are observations, not audited accounts.
The board’s own published counter
The highest single bid on file
How many bidders the board claims
The cheapest published way onto the board
Counted once per visitor per day; none yet
Traffic reported by the upstream directory
Raw figures found on the page8 strings kept without guessing their roleView
$0 · $5 m · $50 · $5,000 · $5 · $ 5 · $6 · $5,000.
23 readings behind this profile
Older and conflicting observations stay on file. New evidence does not silently erase the history.
Review the evidence ledgerField, value, source, date and confidenceOpen
| Field | Value | Source | Read at | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Figure On Page | $0 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $5 m A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $50 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $5,000 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $5 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $ 5 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $0 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $5 m A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $50 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $5,000. A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $5 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $6 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| Mechanic | Single highest bid Matched on: "…First place costs $5 and there is nobody to outbid. That will never be true again once someone…" | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | medium |
| ↳ | Cumulative bid Matched on: "…unway, whether you staked $50 or $5,000. 3 · TOP UP Add to your balance any time — you only ever…" | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | medium |
| Meta Description | A leaderboard you buy your way onto. Your stake decides your rank, and it burns down a little every day. Stop paying and you fade off the board. | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Page Title | Payola — pay-for-play, out in the open Read from the board itself | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Rendered read | 2191 characters Read in a browser; the plain fetch could only see 1510 characters of this page | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Rule.refund | none — the board says so From the board's copy: "non-refundable" | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | medium |
| Registered | 2026-08-21T22:21:33.0Z RDAP queried directly by this site | Registry verified | 01 Sept 2026 | high |
| Registrar | Name.com, Inc. | Registry verified | 01 Sept 2026 | high |
| Status | Live HTTP 200 in 1120ms | Automated observed Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Category | X accounts Category assigned by outoutbid.lol | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | medium |
| First listed | 2026-08-29T08:45:31.594Z When outoutbid.lol first listed the board | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
Tracking history
41 sweeps since 01 Sept 2026.
Only one reading so far — a line needs a second sweep.
Only one reading so far — a line needs a second sweep.
75.6% across 41 checks
View the dated record3 registration, listing, figure and status eventsOpen
- Domain payola.lol registered through Name.com, Inc.RDAP, direct
- First listed in the upstream directoryoutoutbid.lol
- Checked from this site — live (HTTP 200)AllRank.lol sweep
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