The census

What the whole wave looks like at once

Every figure here is recomputed from the same dataset the site pages use, and every one of them is a floor: these are the boards that have been found, reporting the money they choose to publish.

Recomputed 28 Aug 2026

450 Boards on file 120 with a full write-up.

92.7% Still answering 13 dead, 20 unstable.

$191K Reported in total Across 314 boards that publish a figure.

$19 Median board Excluding outbid.lol: $19.

65.9% Taken by one board outbid.lol’s share of everything reported.

87.6% Taken by the top ten Concentration is the story of this wave.

438 With a registry date 97% carry an RDAP record.

82.2% Under $100 258 boards have reported less than $100, ever.

The archive, sweep by sweep

Every full sweep since 27 Aug 2026. Each row is a complete reading of the census on that date — the boards found, how many were answering, and what they said between them.

Sweep	Boards	Answering	Dead	Reporting	Reported total
28 Aug 2026	450	418	13	314	$191,307 +$323
28 Aug 2026	450	417	13	313	$190,984 −$236
27 Aug 2026	449	419	12	312	$191,220

Totals here only move when a board's own counter moves. They are cumulative and mostly permanent, so a rise means someone bid somewhere — not that the wave is growing.

Reported totals, distributed

314 boards publish a figure. This is where those figures fall. The wave is not a gold rush; it is one very large board and several hundred that have taken pocket change.

$0: 29 boards
$0.01 – $10: 95 boards
$10 – $50: 97 boards
$50 – $100: 38 boards
$100 – $500: 32 boards
$500 – $1K: 9 boards
$1K – $5K: 12 boards
over $5K: 2 boards

Boards that publish nothing are not counted as zero — 136 of them simply cannot be read. Why that matters.

Mechanics

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

A board can run more than one rule, so these add up to more than 450.

Layers

Strict pay-to-rank: 319
Pay-to-own: 45
Time-based ranking: 37
Spatial advertising: 32
Adjacent models: 17

Where they live

.lol: 335
.com: 35
.bid: 7
.app: 6
.site: 4
.top: 4
.dev: 3
.io: 3
.online: 3
.space: 2

Who sold the domain

NameCheap, Inc.: 119
Spaceship, Inc.: 53
HOSTINGER operations, UAB: 53
Key-Systems, LLC: 51
Cloudflare, Inc.: 47
Name.com, Inc.: 38
Porkbun LLC: 16
GoDaddy.com, LLC: 14
Dynadot Inc: 11
CloudFlare, Inc.: 5

How they take money

Bitcoin / Lightning: 33
Stripe: 30
USDC: 26
Solana: 25
Ethereum: 12
Polar: 8
UPI: 6
Dodo Payments: 6
Pix: 6
SOL: 6

Read from the page itself where the board does not say.

Status on the last sweep

LIVE: 407
GUARDED: 10
UNREACHABLE: 8
ERRORING: 7
GONE: 6
OFFLINE: 6
REDIRECTED: 5
PARKED: 1

What the record rests on

First-party: 6,065 readings
Third-party sourced: 1,719 readings
Registry verified: 874 readings
Automated observed: 450 readings
Estimated: 111 readings

Every value on every page is one of these. Nothing is stated without one.

Want these numbers as JSON? The whole dataset is one request, CC BY 4.0, no key. Want the arithmetic? The census report shows it.