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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-08

AADP Wants AI Applications to Stop Crawling Blind

aadp.dev ↗ · Developer Corner · score 79.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

AADP is a JSON-native discovery and retrieval protocol for letting AI clients find, validate, and read application-published data without crawling HTML.

Why it surfaced

The protocol defines a concrete four-step flow—from a well-known manifest to resource sitemaps and validated JSON entity documents—and ships schemas, validators, a reference client, checksum utilities, and a conformance suite. It is a focused attempt to give AI systems an authoritative, allow-listed path into public application data.

The Fax Is Thinking

August 8’s newborn domains include a chatbot that replies only by fax, an Elmira tax analysis built from 1,689 sales, a map protecting Jeju divers’ precise fishing grounds, and 58 boxes catalogued into one uncle’s 1,113-book library.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-08 Domain Arrivals issue.