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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

Prior Art Record Registry

priorartregistry.org ↗ · Useful Tools · 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

A free, no-account service for publishing technical disclosures or recording private SHA-256 hashes in a verifiable, append-only ledger.

Why it surfaced

Full records are timestamped, hash-linked, anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps, and submitted to the Internet Archive; partial records prove existence without publishing the text. The site is unusually candid about permanence, acceptable use, and the legal risk of publishing before seeking patent advice.

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.