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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

PDF Overlay — Private Bates Numbering in the Browser

pdfoverlay.app ↗ · Useful Tools · score 84.0
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

A browser-local PDF tool for adding text, images, watermarks, page numbers, and sequential Bates numbers without uploading the document.

Why it surfaced

PDF Overlay handles a concrete legal-document task while keeping the file on the user’s machine. Its Bates-numbering workflow supports prefixes, zero-padded counters, confidentiality legends, dates, page counts, page ranges, and reusable schemes—an unusually specific level of attention for a free beta tool.

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.