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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-12

NYC Dog Name Explorer

nycsdog.name ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 88.0
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

An interactive explorer of 819,323 New York City dog-license records, with name rankings, breed comparisons, neighborhood clusters, trends, and heatmaps.

Why it surfaced

Built from the NYC Open Data dog-licensing dataset, it turns a large municipal record into a playful map of city life: 29.7% of names appear on only one license, while “BODEGA” belongs to just nine dogs. Its caveat that renewing dogs can appear more than once keeps the fun grounded in the data’s actual limits.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.