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Except that amazon is not the one paying, it is quad.com (or some other domain they’re piggybacking on) who has to pay for the DNS traffic. If my $3 side projec
by Matt3o12_ 8y ago
Except that amazon is not the one paying, it is quad.com (or some other domain they’re piggybacking on) who has to pay for the DNS traffic. If my $3 side project suddenly became a $1000 side project I’d be pissed too. I like what signal is doing but that should not be making others pay for it. Ideally amazon would help them do that but that don’t.
- edaemon 8y agoThat may be true but Signal is purposely using high-profile domains, not someone's small side project.
- ForHackernews 8y ago> Except that amazon is not the one paying, it is quad.com It's souq.com, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souq.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souq.com It's an e-commerce site targeted at the middle east that Amazon bought as their play for that market. Signal deliberately chose it because it's an Amazon domain, so governments would be reluctant to block it.