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So in theory I could host a minimal website on DNS?
by butz 6y ago
So in theory I could host a minimal website on DNS?
- elliottinvent 6y agoThanks for your comment. Yes, with a client side app to show and format the content stored in DNS you could do that. I guess it depends on the content you're looking to host. NUM (and DNS) is not well suited for storing lots of content, but does work well for storing key structured data. It seems that many small business websites follow similar formats – it's just the key information that's different. For example, contact data, location of store etc. So NUM works well to split that data into a structured machine readable format that can be interrogated by devices, apps and services.
- pastage 6y agoIn the same way you can already do that on DNS, and no browser support dns lookup in any sane way except dns over http. So no.
- elliottinvent 6y agoI think DoH is an important development here – our "NUM Record Viewer" makes all queries over DoH but of course you need to load a web app to run the queries. I'm hoping browsers will support custom DNS queries at some point. There was some talk of it being supported in Chromium a couple of years ago but it got shelved I think. Hopefully creative uses of the DNS like NUM will encourage them to consider it again.