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   by elliottinvent 5y ago

   Wow, it’s the first time I’ve seen this site and format but what a great way to explain electronics and design.
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   by elliottinvent 5y ago

   This reads like a Guardian album review, very colourful - thanks!
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   Show HN: NPM package to fetch company contact data and logos

   1 points by elliottinvent 5y ago|0 comments
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   Developers offered free, unlimited, unrestricted access to business contact info(iteuropa.com)

   1 points by elliottinvent 5y ago|0 comments
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   by elliottinvent 5y ago

   I can confirm that dang is a massive help to non-YC founders posting on HN. He’s helped me a couple of times to make my posts more appealing to readers, providing great insight into what HN readers are looking for.
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   by elliottinvent 5y ago

   Ah, I might have misunderstood your previous comment about RDAP - I thought you were asking why we didn’t fetch this data from registrar RDAP implementations, so my answer was in response to that. You may have been suggesting that we serve
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   by elliottinvent 5y ago

   Thanks for the detailed technical feedback, it's why I'm here. > Why is RDAP limited if anybody can just use a client and any server on the internet that fulfils the same spec? RDAP as a technology and RFC isn't limited or
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   by elliottinvent 5y ago

   No, not saying that. As I’m sure you know, WHOIS and RDAP are about domain registrant data supplied by registrars and registries. We didn’t do this in RDAP because: a) we’re not a registrar or registry; b) RDAP has strict limits designed sp
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   by elliottinvent 5y ago

   Thanks for taking a look. We don't promote NUM as decentralised, but it has that potential with enough independent adoption. We talk about NUM as an alternative to centralised APIs for two reasons: (a) it can be adopted independently;
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. There's some replies on that comment that I won't repeat here. I find the disappointment fascinating and I guess it's maybe a network traffic purist view point? > What would make this data truly de
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Ok, good luck! Hope to hear about it on here some day.
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. It works for 90% of UK businesses already, because we’ve pre-populated the DNS with their phone numbers, addresses, social media. So they don’t need to adopt it, for it to work. They can if they want to override the
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Where does it get a list of domains to crawl that match a given query?
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thanks for taking a look. In my opinion, the methods of adoption of the semantic web (html tags) weren’t that complicated. The different variations and possibilities of how even basic data could be described is what made it complicated for
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    Show HN: DNS-based alternative to Semantic Web – 23M data points now in DNS

    25 points by elliottinvent 5y ago|18 comments
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    A small team and I built this, we got some really interesting feedback from HN last time [1, 2]. I'm available to answer any questions or provide more info. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24354559 2. https:&#
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    We crawled 5M UK websites and published 23M data points to DNS – here’s why(num.uk)

    3 points by elliottinvent 5y ago|1 comments
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thanks for reporting this. The protocol has a timeout when waiting for a response from the independent zone. It shouldn’t wait 4s for any response, so there could be a bug somewhere here. We’ll take a look.
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Very interesting, thanks for the data. “API call” being the first and last call to CloudFlare DoH? If so, there’s some throttling going on somewhere. It’s completing in around 1-1.5s for most I think.
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    I agree there’s a line where putting data in DNS is just a gimmick (eg storing images in DNS) because the web does it infinitely better. But in the case of contact information I think it makes a lot of sense. This demo site is an intense ex
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    CloudFlare is just the resolver in this example. The data and the way to fetch is it just vanilla DNS. Pick a resolver, any resolver.
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thank you. I’m very grateful for the insight into your view, that’s why I’m here. > DNS is distributed and communal, but it's cheap only because it's minimal. Cheap for who? Users using free resolvers or businesses using DNS se
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    The data is free to developers and users. We offer a freemium service to businesses that they can use to publish and manage NUM data. We prepopulate data in our domain (NUM.net) so the protocol is useful from launch. The protocol allows any
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thanks for your kind comment. The standardised use cases of NUM (currently contact data, images [gravatar for domains] and some others) would allow you as a small website operator to publish any public data that you wanted to be machine-rea
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    > You might have picked a bad demo project to show off the efficiency of NUM. It takes me 58 requests and (on my very fast connection) 5.3 seconds to download all the information for Barclays. That’s very slow, I’d be interested how much
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thanks for coming back to this. Internet speeds in the UK are comparable with the US. Many parts of the world are not as fortunate, with bandwidth severely limited and extortionate data charges (unless it’s Facebook data, then it’s free?!).
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Only this website uses CF DoH. It’s just an example of how data from the protocol can be used. The data is stored in vanilla DNS so would be cached by any resolver that queries it.
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thanks for your point of view, I find it really interesting. > I think you're leeching off someone else's infrastructure Ok, who’s the victim here? CloudFlare? Since we use their DoH end point? Google Cloud DNS? Since that’s wh
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    > Have you considered that part of the reason why DNS is ultra efficient is that it's a relatively constrained dataset of small but meaningful data objects? I’m not sure it is. The size of DNSSEC responses are not insignificant. The
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    by elliottinvent 5y ago

    Thanks for your comment. The DNS is used for a lot more than converting domain to IPs and mail servers, run: dig target.com TXT And be amazed at the pollution at the apex. SPF, DMARC and others show that DNS is already being used for much m