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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

GiveRate, or the denominator behind the big gift

giverate.org ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 86.0
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

GiveRate measures philanthropy against the size of the giver, combining sourced rankings, historical benchmarks, state-by-state public data, and a browser-based personal calculator.

Why it surfaced

Its central idea is both simple and consequential: a $200 million gift means something different depending on whether it represents 2% or 20% of the giver’s relevant pool. The site shows its denominators and sources, offers a 50-state almanac with downloadable data, and deliberately chooses five defensible historical benchmarks over a larger list of guesses.

Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.