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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

Root Witness, the audit log that asks you to distrust it

rootwitness.com ↗ · Developer Corner · score 84.0
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

A tamper-evident transparency log for AI-agent actions, using Merkle trees, signed checkpoints, and a witness running on your own machine.

Why it surfaced

Root Witness turns distrust into a workflow: your witness checks the service's cryptographic consistency proof and refuses to co-sign if the log has been rewritten, truncated, or forked. The homepage even shows the refusal evidence and exit code, alongside a free tier with 10,000 entries per month and no card required.

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.