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by namecast 13y ago
Interesting. Have a sample query that displays this? Like, can you not enter a label more than 120 octets into their web ui, or is it that entering the data works fine but a 'dig -t TXT yourlabel.domain.com @cloudflare's NS server
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by namecast 13y ago
Heh, I just visualized my laptop keyboard transposed onto an 88 key piano, and then tried to imagine what a typical vim session would sound like on it...
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by namecast 13y ago
Sorry, it really wasn't meant to be. (And I think anyone "advertising" on HN in that way would be dealt with pretty quickly.) Mine was originally one of the first comments on the article, and it turns out lots of people have
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by namecast 13y ago
I'll just put this here: Anycast doesn't _necessarily_ break CDNs in the way this thread has been implying. Ideally you've got some sort of loose unicast rpf in place for your DNS nodes, and have them receive DNS queries on t
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by namecast 13y ago
Yeah, you should never see anything like "IN ALIAS" in the output of dig, for example, and getaddrinfo(3) wouldn't know what to do with that sort of record. It's all internal to the authoritative NS. ...which is a bummer
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by namecast 13y ago
Some users are fine with using their registrar's domain servers, others prefer a dedicated DNS provider to escape the constant barrage of upselling (looking at you Register.com and GoDaddy), or to get access to advanced features (read:
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by namecast 13y ago
Yeah, that blog isn't right, or at least it shouldn't be. (Just because a DNS registrar allows you to set up @ to point to a CNAME, or www to point to multiple CNAMEs on their authoritative servers, doesn't mean that your rec
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by namecast 13y ago
I think that's right. But: a) this is a common problem for CDNs, as you can never guarantee the DNS server that's asking for your CNAME is close to the cache servers that you want to deliver your end-user content; I'd be surp
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by namecast 13y ago
DNSMadeEasy apparently supports ANAME records (according to their docs); ANAME's are essentially ALIAS records with a different qtype (though from what I remember, the RFC that proposed them is now deprecated.)
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by namecast 13y ago
Yep. ALIAS records exist basically to get around the CNAME restriction introduced in RFC 1034. Basically, with a CNAME, you can't have any other qtypes for the leaf that you're on. (I'll explain what that means...) For exampl
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by namecast 13y ago
Interesting how ALIAS records are becoming a de-facto DNS protocol feature. Despite not having even an RFC draft proposing their existence, GitHub recommends using ALIAS records, and large players (e.g. AWS, Dyn, and DNSSimple IIRC, as well
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by namecast 13y ago
I've recommended learnxinyminutes.com to tons of people, I even showed it to my landlord when I was visiting Thailand. Very cool project. For me: I re-built Namecast ( https://www.namecast.net ) this year. It allows you to ma
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by namecast 13y ago
Merry Christmas everyone!
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by namecast 13y ago
True, this is way anecdotal. Believe me, if I could have gotten a bigger sample size, I would have! As it stands I was excited that I had at least two different traffic sources within the same order of magnitude to offer a semi-well-not-com
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by namecast 13y ago
True on both counts. I should have qualified that statement by 1) removing highly (would you at least spot me "barely targeted"? and 2) added "in the ultra-short term" to the end of that sentence. If I'd have known
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by namecast 13y ago
I'll poke around. I admittedly have a bit of 'subreddit blindness'. I'll check those subs out on www.stattit.com. Thanks for the suggestion.
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by namecast 13y ago
I didn't even mention that! Reddit reported 100% more traffic than I actually saw with any analytics service. Not only that, I saw a bunch of suspicious hits from reddit referrers that didn't load any CSS or javascript. Like someo
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by namecast 13y ago
Which shocked me, to be honest. I think I may have tapped into some latent reddit vs. HN rivalry? Also, I put in graphics. HN loves graphics.
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by namecast 13y ago
damn you, jekyll! i'll see if i can fix that bug.
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by namecast 13y ago
Confirmed by my referral logs. This is how it works.
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by namecast 13y ago
The individual sample sizes are small, yes. The variance between the paid vs organic conversions was still stark to me, e.g. 54 paid visitors had a 0% conversion rate to trial vs ~20% with 5 of 26 organic users converting to trial. FWIW, th
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by namecast 13y ago
I counted at least two sites and one twitter bot that automatically culled "Show HN" posts and gave us traffic. Nice bump.
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by namecast 13y ago
vittore - ping us and maybe we can discuss? i'd like to hear more about your use case at least. You can hit us up at support at namecast dot net, or just log in, start your free trial and ping us via the support button.
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by namecast 13y ago
I'd be willing to try again on more dev and devops related subs, though the audience reach is a bit smaller there.
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by namecast 13y ago
Probably. My thinking is that the low CTR (click through rate) can be explained by poor targeting, but once you arrive to the landing page you should have a pretty good indication of whether you want to trial or not. The low number of conve
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by namecast 13y ago
I was going to say, that feels spammy and weird.
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Failed HN Launch vs. Reddit Paid Advertising: Which Converts Better(startops.namecast.net)
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying About(But Not Love) Kernel Panics(startops.namecast.net)
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Why Does GeoDNS still suck?(startops.namecast.net)
1 points by namecast 13y ago|0 comments
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To Freemium Or Not: Offering Free DNS to Every GitHub User(startops.namecast.net)
2 points by namecast 13y ago|0 comments

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