1About these Terms
These Terms are the agreement between you and Who Owns Number (“we”, the operator named in our Privacy Notice) when you pay on whoownsnumber.com. The Privacy Notice, the Content Policy and the Refund Policy are part of them. By paying you accept them.
You buy from Dodo Payments (Dodo Payments, Inc.), which resells our service as merchant of record under its Buyer Terms. Where they differ from these Terms, the Buyer Terms apply first.
2What you pay for
A “Number” is any whole number from 1 to 1,000,000 on the site. When you pay for a Number, your “Listing” (the display name you choose and, if you add one, a link) goes on that Number’s page and public list, in its history and in the share images made for it.
Your “Total” is everything you have paid for that Number, less refunds. The first person whose Total reaches a Number’s claim price becomes its “Owner”. After that, ownership passes to whoever’s Total becomes at least USD 1.00 more than the current Owner’s. A change of Owner never removes a Listing or lowers a Total.
While you are the Owner of a Number, you can also add a logo, a short note and a colour to your Listing. They show only while you are the Owner. If someone takes the Number over they are hidden, not deleted, and they come back if you become the Owner again.
Paying gives you nothing outside the site: no title, licence or other right in any Number.
3No monetary value
Listings and Owner status, including the logo, note and colour an Owner can add, have no monetary value. They are display features of the site and nothing more. They can’t be transferred, sold, exchanged or cashed in, and they are not a security or a financial product. Paying is not a bet, auction or investment: there is no prize, payout or return.
4Price and payment
Prices are in US dollars (USD) and include all taxes. They are shown on each Number’s page and at checkout. The price is fixed when you open the payment page. If you were paying to become Owner and someone else paid more first, your payment is still added to the Number’s list, and you can ask for a refund within 7 days of paying (see the Refund Policy).
Dodo Payments takes the payment, appears on your card statement and issues your invoice. We never see your card number. Each payment is added to your Total for that Number only; Totals can’t be moved between Numbers.
5Going live and right of withdrawal
Your Listing is live once your payment is added to the Number’s list, even while your name waits for review. A payment that adds to your Total is live once it is added to your Total.
At checkout you ask us to start straight away and agree that you lose any right to withdraw once it is live, as far as the law allows. We confirm this in the email we send you. Rights the law gives you that can’t be waived stay with you. Refunds are covered in the Refund Policy.
6Your content and moderation
You are responsible for the name, link, logo and note you submit, and they must follow the Content Policy. A logo must be yours, or you must have the right to use it. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to show your Listing, including your logo and note, on the site, in share images and in badges while it is published.
We check every logo before it shows. A first logo shows nothing until we approve it; when you replace an approved logo, the approved one stays until we have checked the new one. A hidden logo shows nothing in its place. We may hold a Listing for review before it shows and may hide one that breaks the Content Policy. A hidden Listing stays on the public list as “Hidden by moderation”, its Total still counts, and no refund is due. Anyone can report a Listing with its Report button. When we hide one, we tell you why by email; reply to that email to appeal.
7How long a Listing stays
A Listing stays for as long as the site runs, unless it is hidden under section 6, refunded or erased under the Privacy Notice. We may take a Number off sale, for example after a legal request; its names are then hidden. If we close the site, we will email everyone with a Listing at least 30 days before.
8Who can pay
You must be 18 or older, old enough to make a binding contract where you live, and allowed to use the card or payment method you pay with.
9Liability
We can’t promise the site will always be available or error-free. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to your Total. This does not limit liability for intent, gross negligence, death or personal injury, or fraud, and it does not affect consumer rights that can’t be limited.
10Changes, law and contact
We may change these Terms by publishing a new version here. Changes don’t apply to payments made before they take effect. We email everyone with a Listing about material changes.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Türkiye. If you are a consumer, you keep the mandatory protections of the country where you live and the right to go to its courts.
Please email us first about any problem: hello@whoownsnumber.com. This address is also our contact point for authorities and for reports of illegal content, in English.