Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
虾宝, the Telegram Group Janitor
A Chinese-language Telegram bot that detects and removes disguised advertisements, then bans the accounts and contact handles behind them.
Why it surfaced虾宝 looks past ordinary keyword filters: it reconstructs spaced-out words, reads hidden links and inline buttons, detects zero-width characters and image-like custom emojis, and records the reason for each removal. It is free for group owners, while an optional promotion slot lets them earn affiliate commission—a distinctly Telegram-native business model.
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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.