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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

CIRCUS: The Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition With a Theme

circuscomp.net ↗ · Learning & Exams · score 79.0
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

CIRCUS is a collegiate incident-response and digital-forensics competition in which undergraduate teams investigate simulated breaches and present their findings.

Why it surfaced

The competition turns a compromised client environment into a full professional exercise: teams handle evidence, reconstruct what happened, write technical and executive reports, and face judges in a final presentation. Its 2026–2027 schedule spans regional events, a virtual final, and national finals at the Southern California Linux Expo.

Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.