Rules

Signing up sends a verification link to your email. You can browse the map and your dashboard right away, but claiming a territory or placing a bid requires a verified email first — it's the one check we do before any real money moves.

Every territory starts unclaimed at a fixed base price. Pay that price and it's yours — you set an advertiser name, a website link, a logo, and optionally a short video, all shown on the territory's page and filling its shape on the world map.

Anyone can challenge an owned territory by outbidding its current value. A qualifying bid must beat the current value by at least 5%, or $1, whichever is higher. A qualifying bid opens a battle — the territory flips to “in battle” and a countdown starts.

A battle runs for 10 minutes. Every qualifying competing bid extends the clock by 30 seconds — so a battle can't be sniped in its last second — up to a cap of 30 minutes of total extension. When the clock runs out, the highest bidder wins: they become the new owner at their bid amount, and their advertiser details replace the previous owner's.

Tap claim or bid and you're taken straight to a secure Stripe payment page — no need to save a card first. Claiming charges you immediately. Bidding only places a hold — nothing is charged unless you win. If someone outbids you, your hold is released right away. If you win the battle, the hold is captured for the winning amount.

• Logo images: PNG, JPEG, or WEBP, up to 3MB.
• Videos (optional): MP4 or WEBM, up to 15 seconds and 20MB.
• Bids are capped at $1,000,000 as a sanity ceiling.

Every click on an advertised website link — from a territory page or the leaderboard — is counted and shown publicly. The leaderboard ranks owners by total territory value or count, and shows total clicks driven across everything they own.

Territories represent digital ad placements only — they don't confer ownership, possession, or any legal interest in the real-world places they're named after. Accounts found abusing the platform (fraud, fake payment activity, abusive content) may be banned; a ban ends active sessions immediately and is enforced on every request, not just at login.