Mission
Scouts
Conservation
A squat is a hive you set on a domain. As other sites start linking to it, your hive grows and your name climbs the board. Drag the ruler to see what growth does for your handle, and what winter and other beekeepers can do to your hive.
Your score was set the day you squatted. Growth does not change it; growth moves you up the board.
Keepers at the top of this board are intelligent and generous and maybe a little lucky: they spot good sites before anyone else, and they can give their prize honey to the bee charity.
The board ranks hives by links gained since they were set. Bigger gains move your handle up.
On the 1st, the keepers of the 100 fastest-growing hives win honey. Keep it for new hives or give it to the bee charity in your name. It is for squatting only and cannot be cashed out.
#1: 250 honey · #2–10: 100 · #11–100: 25
Each week the keeper of the fastest-growing hive wins a vote: move one point of Hurrbee's honey from one place to another, such as the bee charity, the reserve, members' honey, the HurrbeeBot network, Hurrbee's upkeep or referrals. As Hurrbee grows, more keepers win each week. Every share has limits, so no vote can empty the reserve.
Your handle then carries a title for how you vote, like @yourhandle · The Kind. Pick either name:
From 1 April, every hive has a 21–38% chance of dying, the real range of US honeybee winter losses. Your first winter is free. Winterizing cuts the risk; a hive that survives adds 25% to its score.
Anyone can take your hive by paying twice what you paid. You get 75% back and 14 days to take it back first. Winterizing does not stop a takeover.
Prices, score, winter and takeovers follow the live rules. Hive stages, badges and the monthly prize are coming soon.
Scouting is a game. You spend honey to put your name beside a domain you think deserves noticing, and part of what you spend goes to pollinator conservation.
Every squat here is someone saying this one is worth noticing. The score rewards
obscurity — a domain nobody had cataloged counts for more than one everybody knows — and it
grows with each winter a hive comes through. Pointing us at something Hurrbee had never
crawled is worth half again as much.
This ranks squats, not people. A good eye counts for more than a long list.
Honey spent on a squat is forfeit — it buys a place on this page and nothing else.
| # | Domain | Links (then → now) | TA | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | princeton.edu Take it slee · squatted Aug 2026 “the first one” | 1 → 134 (+133) | 85.9 | 85.9 |
| 2 | abc.com Take it slee · squatted Aug 2026 “there is only one” | 10 → 43 (+33) | 67.3 | 56.3 |
| 3 | perfectgame.org Take it slee · squatted Oct 2026 “Henry Lee 13” | 2 → 7 (+5) | 52.7 | 50.3 |
TA is Trust Authority, our measure of a domain, from 0 to 100. It is computed by the crawler and nobody can buy it — squatting on a domain does not move it. Links is how many different sites Hurrbee has found linking to the domain on the day it was squatted, and now; the board is ordered by the gain.
High-quality sites hardly anyone links to yet — 500 honey each, and the best scores on the board if you are right about them. Universities and government sites are left out.
Squatting spends honey you do not get back. What you get is the record and your standing as a scout. A squat is not an investment and gives no ownership of, license to, or interest in the domain or the site it points at. Hurrbee claims nothing over these domains and neither do the people listed here; the site owners are not involved and have not agreed to anything.