How the zone opens
Four phases, and each one widens who may ask.
Not announced
SunriseNow
Rights holders
Anyone can look. Only a holder of a right in the word can ask for it.
Not announced
Landrush
Everyone
Ask for any free word. Uncontested claims are granted, contested ones go to auction.
Not announced
Auction
Nobody new
Contested words settle. Uncontested claims carry on to grant.
Not announced
Open
Everyone
First come, first served. Asking and buying are the same act.
We are in sunrise. Landrush is what changes next. A date that is not announced is a date we have not fixed, rather than one we are keeping from you.
The zone
Or read the board.
An opening selection rather than the whole zone: there are around ten million seven-letter words in +088, and anything you type is checked against all of them. Nothing here is spoken for until somebody asks for it, so press one to find out.
The shortest words
Three and four letters. There are ninety three-digit prefixes in the whole zone and few of them spell anything.
Categories
Generic demand, captured without owning a brand. The class that has sold for six figures for forty years.
Names people already have
A surname or a given name, for one person or a family with a code each.
Coined
Pronounceable, unclaimed, and meaning nothing until its holder makes it mean something.
When two people want one word
The rule, published before anybody typed.
- One claimIt is granted at the price the catalogue already shows.
- A rights claim against open onesThe rights claim proceeds to review and the open ones are refused, told which rule they lost to.
- Two rights claimsA person decides. This is not something arithmetic should settle.
- Two open claimsAuction, rather than to whoever typed fastest.
Filing costs nothing, on purpose. A fee to ask is a bid in disguise, and a bid in disguise during sunrise is the thing sunrise exists to prevent. Money enters at grant, or at the auction.
A claim grants nothing. No prefix, no routing, no address, until the registry says otherwise. Names are renewable delegations rather than purchases, and a +0 number is not on the public network.