Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
Yohei Iwasaki’s Handmade Shoes from Kobe
A Kobe workshop making men’s bespoke shoes by traditional full-handmade methods.
Why it surfacedYohei Iwasaki describes seven years spent as a bottom maker at a bespoke shoe shop in London before returning to Japan. The workshop sits in a quiet hillside neighborhood of Kobe, where the site presents examples including plain-toe Oxfords, punched-cap Oxfords, and three-tie Derbies.
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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.