Everything this site does, in one page.

A minute costs what time it is

13:37 costs $13.37. 04:20 costs $4.20. 23:59 costs $23.59. The price is the clock, which is why there is no pricing page and nothing to negotiate.

The one exception is the first hour. 00:01 would come to a single cent, which is below what a card payment can carry, so every minute has a floor of $1.00, so all of 00:00 to 00:59 costs a dollar.

Taking a minute somebody already holds

You pay $5.00 more than the last person did. That is the whole rule.

A minute claimed at $13.37 costs $18.37 to take. Once you hold it at $18.37, the next person pays $23.37, and so on for as long as anyone keeps wanting it. The cents never change, so every price a minute ever carries still shows the time it is named after.

You may always pay more than the minimum, and plenty of people will. Whatever you pay is what the next bidder has to beat.

Nobody is ever removed

This is the part that makes it worth buying. Being outpaid does not delete you; it moves you down. Every name that has ever held a minute stays listed on it, ranked by what they paid, for as long as this site is online. Equal amounts are ranked by who paid first.

There is no expiry, no renewal and no rent. You are not leasing a minute, you are being written into it.

Your address is your account

There is nothing to sign up for. The address you give us is who you are: bid again on the same minute with the same address and your total grows instead of starting a second entry. Bid with a different address and it is a different name, even if it is your site too.

This is also why coming back is cheap. Everything you have already paid on a minute counts toward what it costs you now, so you pay the difference and not the whole price a second time. Somebody sitting at $18 on a minute that has gone to $23 pays $10 to take it back, not $28. If you already hold the minute, the smallest bid you can make is $5.00, which raises your own total and the bar for whoever comes next.

Because of that, a listing cannot be edited after payment. Whatever your page said at the moment you bought it is what the board shows. Buying that minute again re-reads your page.

What we do with your link

• We read your page once and take its title, description and pictures. Nothing is typed in by hand and nothing can be typed in by you.
• Pictures are copied and served from our own storage, never linked from your server. Your site is not asked for anything when somebody loads the board, and no visitor’s address is passed to you.
• Query strings are stripped. Tracking and affiliate parameters do not survive.
• Clicks leave through our own redirect so we can count them for you, and arrive at your site tagged utm_source=buyaminute.
• Every listing link carries nofollow ugc. This is advertising, not a vote, and pretending otherwise would get the whole site penalised.

An @handle works too: the listing links straight to the profile and carries its picture.

What we will not list

Addresses that are not reachable on the public internet, anything that is not a web page, and images we cannot verify are images. That is a technical limit rather than a judgement.

Beyond that, we reserve the right to take a listing down without warning and without a refund. That covers anything illegal, and the practical case this exists for: a domain that lapses and is re-registered as something that trips a browser safety warning, which would otherwise black out the whole site for everyone. A removed listing keeps its place in the record; it stops being a link.

Paying

Payment is handled by Stripe. We never see your card. You can buy several minutes at once and they arrive as one charge with one line per minute.

Prices are quoted when you start checkout. If somebody takes one of your chosen minutes while you are paying, your payment still lands: it earns you a rank on that minute rather than the top of it. Nothing is lost and nothing is refunded, which is the same rule as everywhere else here: what you paid is on the record.

Posted prices include VAT where it applies. We are a Czech company selling advertising; business customers in the EU should give a VAT number at checkout.

Things this site deliberately does not do

No accounts. No logins. No edit links. No categories, no moderation queue, no reserved minutes, no auctions, no discounts for buying a run of minutes, and no way to buy a second. There are exactly 1,440 things for sale and one way to price them.