I get what you're saying but what you're asking for serves no purpose for the site owners or business itself. People go to X for the product or service they pro

I get what you're saying but what you're asking for serves no purpose for the site owners or business itself. People go to X for the product or service they provide, not to know who developed or designed the site. While I get why you'd like to know, going by your reasoning, it would be easy to argue why can't everyone also list who developed the site or where its hosted, etc... The list can get quite long and it doesn't make sense to list those things to most people and their intended audience. If you genuinely want to know who designed A, B, or C, email the owners of A, B, and C, and ask them who designed the site, and maybe even for a referral. This also doesn't take into account the fact that maybe A, B, and C were designed by the founder, who may not be a contractor for hire. It also doesn't take into account premium design firm prices you might not want to pay. Point being, there are ways for you to go about finding out the information you need with a little bit of work rather than thinking the detail you want to know really makes "the world a better place" when it fact it doesn't. There's nothing wrong with you trying to find the info just because its not listed on a footer link somewhere. I should also point out that the link in your HN profile (http://www.reguluslabs.com/ http://www.reguluslabs.com/) also doesn't show who designed the site... Just saying... "Be the change you want to see the in world"