Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
Tools For Japan: Small Answers to Big Administrative Friction
A focused toolbox for navigating Japanese forms, names, addresses, dates, eras, postal codes, and phone numbers.
Why it surfacedThis is unusually concrete internet utility: it explains 全角 and 半角, maps foreign names to fields such as 姓, 名, セイ, and メイ, and converts Japanese phone numbers to +81 format. The homepage is especially good at describing the moment of use—“the five minutes when nothing makes sense”—and says sensitive input stays in the browser.
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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.