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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17

Citation Footprint — The Audit Beyond Your Homepage

citationfootprint.com ↗ · AI Table · score 82.0
○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 research service measuring which third-party pages AI assistants read when recommending companies, and which competitors appear on them.

Why it surfaced

Citation Footprint makes a sharp claim about the new search surface: in one cited example, buyer-intent answers for transactional email APIs surfaced only third-party listicles, not vendor homepages. It publishes category-level measurements for free, sells a $199 report, and carefully refuses to promise guaranteed AI placement.

Monica’s Calendar of Flowers

August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.