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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

Why TELUS Sucks: The Month-47 Calculator

whytelussucks.com ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 86.0
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 satirical consumer-rights site that projects the five-year cost of a TELUS bundle and explains how to challenge or escape it.

Why it surfaced

The page turns a telecom bill into a readable investigation, modelling how a quoted $95 price can become $180 through expiring credits, added charges, and rate adjustments. Its jokes are attached to practical material: a calculator, a complaint route, a sourced TELUS timeline, and an escape guide.

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.