Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
SourcIC Wants to Make Dormant Chip Inventory Liquid
A Chinese-language marketplace for buying, selling, inspecting, and financing surplus electronic components.
Why it surfacedSourcIC combines inventory normalization, BOM matching, escrow, third-party chip inspection, auctions, and an AI sourcing assistant in one unusually specific marketplace pitch. The homepage also says there are currently no listings, making this an ambitious early-stage arrival to revisit—especially given its promise of tenfold compensation for counterfeit goods and the mismatch between the .com domain and the sourcic.cn address named in its description.
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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.