Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
Humane Contract puts maintainers back in the software loop
A voluntary companion to software licenses that gives coding agents a machine-readable way to recognize and support the people behind a project.
Why it surfacedHumane Contract adds a reviewable HUMANE_CONTRACT.md file beside a project’s license, then lets agents surface one calm path to credit, sponsorship, contributions, or paid work after material benefit. Its unusually careful premise is summed up by the homepage: “Software has people behind it.”
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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.