There are 315 time zones. Anyone can take any of them, at any time, by
paying more than the person holding it. That is the entire game.
Read this part
Payments are final. You are not refunded when somebody takes your zone.
You are paying to hold a zone for as long as you hold it — which might be a year,
or might be ten minutes. Nobody can tell you in advance which.
Claiming a zone
Unclaimed zones open at $5. Any of the 315 zones nobody
has taken yet costs the same to claim.
Taking an owned zone costs more than the current stake. The price is
the current stake plus at least 10% (minimum $1), rounded up
to the next whole dollar. The site always shows you the exact figure before you pay.
The price is decided by the server, never the browser. It is read again
inside the payment transaction, so the amount you are charged is the amount that was
genuinely required at that moment.
Ownership moves only after Stripe confirms the payment. Reaching the
confirmation page proves nothing on its own.
Holding a zone
Your name, domain, logo and tagline appear on the globe, in the clock strip, and on
that zone's own page.
You hold it until somebody pays more. There is no time limit, and no guaranteed
minimum — paying does not reserve the zone for any period.
You can edit your listing at any time using the private link we email you. No account,
no password.
Buying a zone is not an endorsement by this site, and confers nothing beyond the
listing itself: no advertising guarantee, no traffic guarantee, no clicks.
Losing a zone
When somebody pays more, your listing comes off the globe immediately.
Your payment is not returned. Not in part, not as credit.
You stay in that zone's history permanently, with what you paid and when. Losing a
zone does not erase you.
What you paid stays on that zone as credit. If you take it back later,
you pay only the difference between the new price and what you have already put in.
Your money is not returned, but it is not wasted either.
Credit on a zone
Everything you have ever paid on a particular zone is added up and counts toward taking
it again. Identity is your email address, lowercased — there are no accounts, so use the
same address each time or your credit will be split across two of them.
Say you claim New York at $5 and somebody takes it for $6. Taking it back
needs a $7 total, and you already have $5 on it, so you pay the difference
rather than the full $7. Credit is per zone — it does not move to a different one.
Small differences are rounded up to a minimum charge of
$3, because card fees make anything less mostly fee.
Paying the minimum simply leaves you with a slightly larger stake.
What is not refundable
To be completely unambiguous, none of the following entitles you to a refund:
Somebody taking your zone, however soon after you bought it.
Getting fewer visitors, clicks or sign-ups than you hoped for.
Changing your mind, or a colleague buying without asking you.
Typing the wrong domain, name or tagline — edit it with your private link
instead, which is free and instant.
Removal of your listing for breaking the content rules below.
If you were charged twice for the same claim, or charged and never given the zone, that
is a mistake rather than a rule — see the FAQ and email us.
What you may not list
Keep it to a real company, product, project or personal site. We will remove a listing,
without refund, for anything that is:
illegal, or facilitating something illegal;
hateful, harassing, or targeting a private individual;
sexually explicit;
malware, phishing, or a deceptive redirect;
impersonating a company or person you are not;
a deliberate misspelling of somebody else's brand.
Names and taglines are plain text. No HTML, no links, no markup.
Two people paying at once
Zones are claimed in the order payments confirm, not the order checkouts start. If two
people pay for the same zone within seconds of each other, the second payment is recorded
as outbid and does not take the zone. That specific case is a genuine refund
— email us and we will return it.
These rules can change; the version on this page is the one that applies.
Questions the rules don't answer are probably in the FAQ, and the
formal version is in the Terms.