How to bid on premium account names

Guide to show you how to bid for and claim a premium name on bloks.io

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Written by Charles Arroyo-Bishop
Updated over a week ago


Prerequisites:

  • EOS Account

  • EOS Wallet

  • $EOS to bid with

1. Go to Bloks.io and login (top-right).

2. Click on the 1. More menu at the top-right of the page. Click name bids under the accounts heading.

Note: New bids on a name must be at least 10% higher than the previous bid. Anyone who is outbid will be refunded. You can bid any amount for a new name that’s not been bid on; you can only win that bid if it’s the highest bid of all the name bids on a given day. When the final bid is held uncontested for 24 hours, the auction is ended, and the Premium Name is awarded.

3. From the current bids tab of the name bids page, type in the name you’d like to bid on in the 2. Name to Bid On field and the amount of EOS you’d like to bid in the 3. Amount to Bid field. Click on 4. Bid and approve the transaction in your EOS wallet. You should see your bid in the list of current bids when you refresh the page.

4. Wait. If you’ve placed the highest bid and no one outbid you for 24 hours, you can now claim your name.

5. Claim. Start by logging in at bloks.io with the account used to make the bid. From the more tab at the top of the page, click Name Bids again under the Accounts heading. Next, click on the Need to be Claimed tab. Find your purchased Premium Name and click the claim button to the right of it. Approve the action in your wallet, and that’s it; you can now use your account.

Note: Your claimed account will have the same public and private key as the account used to claim it.

You can refer to our tutorial to learn how to change your private keys.

Have fun trying out your Premium Name!


Author: Charles Arroyo-Bishop

Editor: Markus Hinrichs; Randall Roland

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