Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Fraudhound, the public-spending anomaly hound
An independent watchdog that scores federal contractors for statistical and procurement anomalies.
Why it surfacedFraudhound publishes inspectable briefs rather than vague warnings: its featured National Academy of Sciences entry says five detectors fired across Benford's-law deviation, contract-modification growth, multivariate outlier status, sole-source concentration, and award-velocity spikes. The site is compelling as both a civic research tool and a reminder that an anomaly flag is a starting point for scrutiny, not proof of fraud.
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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.