Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
Good Links Turns Editorial Citations Into Currency
A relevance-first link exchange where publishers cite one another, earn tokens, and spend those tokens on matched inbound links.
Why it surfacedGood Links makes the exchange unusually inspectable: it publishes token tiers, bans sales-word anchors, limits repeat pairings, and promises monthly checks on whether links remain live. Its careful rules are also the source of the unease—the site is building a formal economy around a practice Google explicitly treats as spam when excessive.
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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.