How it works
Every word has one owner. Until someone takes it.
Claim a word from $1
An unclaimed word costs $1. To take one somebody already holds, you pay the price shown on that word. One payment, no subscription.
Hold it as long as you like
Your name, logo and link sit on that word’s page. No monthly fee, no expiry, no auction timer.
Someone takes it - and pays more
You are told the moment it happens, and you get 115% of what you paid back as Credits - spendable on this site, not cash. You can take the word straight back at the new price.
What you get - and what you don’t
You get current-owner placement on CLAIM.IT: the word’s page shows you as the holder for as long as you hold it, and every takeover is recorded permanently in that word’s history.
You do not get any trademark, copyright, domain or other intellectual-property right in the word. CLAIM.IT does not grant legal ownership of language. Words are not assets and cannot be resold on the platform. Losing a word pays you no money - what you receive is Credits, which can only ever be spent here.
How Credits work
When somebody takes a word from you, you receive 115% of what you paid for it in Credits, rounded up - pay $1 for a word and you get 2 Credits when it is taken. The 115% is calculated on the full price of your acquisition, including any part of it you paid with Credits.
Credits pay for up to 80% of any claim or takeover; the balance is always paid by card, so every purchase moves some real money. They never expire.
Credits are not money. They are promotional purchasing power on CLAIM.IT. They cannot be withdrawn, transferred, refunded or exchanged for cash, and they have no value away from this site.
Paying, and how a takeover stays fair
The next price is max(⌈current × 1.35⌉, current + $1) - whole dollars, rounded up. Payments are made by card and handled by Dodo Payments.
Two people can never pay for the same word at the same price. The moment you start a takeover, that word and that exact price are reserved for you alone for 90 seconds, and everybody else sees Takeover in progress until you finish or the hold expires. If your payment is already authorised when the 90 seconds run out, the word stays held for you until the payment settles.
Ownership only ever moves after the payment is confirmed and verified on our servers. We never move a word based on a redirect or anything your browser tells us.
What can’t be claimed
Web addresses, contact details and personal information, impersonation attempts, reserved platform terms, and anything that breaks the content rules. Words are capped at 40 characters and five words.