HOW YOINKED WORKS
Take control.
Keep it until someone pays more.
These are the product rules. The Terms govern your use of YOINKED and control if they conflict with this page.
1. Control of /go
A qualifying payment makes you the current owner of /go and lets you choose its allowed destination. “Owner” means current redirect controller only.
A qualifying payment is a confirmed, eligible payment at or above the live minimum when confirmation occurs, paired with a destination that passes YOINKED's rules and verification. Refunded, reversed or disputed payments are not eligible to retain control.
2. How the price moves
The first claim starts at $5. After that, the required step is 10% of the current payment, rounded up to a whole dollar, with a $5 minimum step and a $250 maximum required step. You may pay more than the live minimum.
There is no scheduled reset or expiry. Opening checkout does not reserve the live minimum. The live minimum is checked again before checkout and control is decided only after payment confirmation.
3. Payment races and refunds
Control is decided when payment is confirmed. If another qualifying payment wins first and your confirmed payment never receives control, YOINKED verifies that it never controlled /go and refunds it under the payment provider's refund process. If a race refund has not been resolved, contact Support with the payment reference.
Being taken after your payment already controlled /go is part of the product and is not, by itself, a refund reason.
4. What you may submit
You may submit only a destination you own, operate, or are authorized to represent. YOINKED accepts public HTTPS product or company homepages and supported public GitHub and Product Hunt pages.
Shorteners, hidden redirects, local or private-network targets, login or download routes, executable files, and destinations that cannot be verified are not allowed.
5. Prohibited destinations
Do not use YOINKED for unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, infringing or abusive activity. Pornography or adult services, piracy or unauthorized streaming/downloads, malware or phishing, gambling, scams, impersonation, unlawful or age-restricted goods, unlicensed regulated services, weapons-oriented sales, privacy-invasive surveillance and similar prohibited uses are not allowed.
6. Verification and takedowns
Destinations are checked before checkout and may be checked again while live. YOINKED may refuse, freeze or remove a destination, pause claims, or disqualify redirect control where reasonably necessary for security, abuse, fraud, provider policy, rights complaints, refunds or disputes, or legal obligations.
7. Public history
Completed claims may remain in the public history with a destination-derived label or hostname, payment amount and approximate timing. A destination appearing on YOINKED is not an endorsement or certification.
8. Reports and support
Use Report abuse for unsafe or prohibited destinations. Use Support for payment, refund, privacy, rights or general questions.