Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
The Black Index, a Directory with a Newsroom Instinct
A searchable directory of Black-owned professionals and businesses, organized by category and city.
Why it surfacedThe Black Index combines practical discovery with reported local stories, including pieces on independent barbershops, Atlanta restaurants, and where business capital is actually moving. Its search tools, city coverage, featured listings, and stated reach across 43+ states make it feel like a useful community reference rather than a bare directory.
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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.