Million Short DNS
Infrastructure
dns server
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
3 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Idea: 3 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good anti-procrastination tool
From 1 comment
This could work as a pretty neat anti-procrastination tool. HN is ranked 2.9k and reddit is 100-something.
makmanalp on HN
Name 'popularly obscure results' is better
From 1 comment
You get 'popularly obscure' results. Which I think is a better name than million short.
pixie_ on HN
Objections
Not useful; why bother
From 2 comments
Why is this useful in any way, shape or form?
bmmayer1 on HNI don't get it. What's the point of this?
smudgymcscmudge on HN
Can see only malicious uses
From 1 comment
I can only imagine malicious uses for this. "Sorry, you're no longer allowed to access Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Wikipedia." Not that that is entirely a bad thing.
garretruh on HN
Top million is too easy to enter
From 1 comment
You can get into the top million on Alexa with a minuscule amount of traffic so you'd be extremely limited. Losing the top 1000 would probably be a more interesting experiment…
petercooper on HN
Requests
Offer a proxy limited to top 1k/100k/1m sites
From 1 comment
What I think would be more interesting is a proxy that only uses the first 1k, 100k, 1m sites. I might be wrong, but it might be an easy way to keep users on the "bright streets"…
ChikkaChiChi on HN
Block only the top 1000 sites instead
From 1 comment
You can get into the top million on Alexa with a minuscule amount of traffic so you'd be extremely limited. Losing the top 1000 would probably be a more interesting experiment…
petercooper on HN
Questions
What are the removal criteria and how is the ranking made?
From 2 comments
So what's the criteria for removal? I.e. how does a domain get in the top 1m?
measure2xcut1x on HNHow did they do their ranking? Is it based on a web crawl, dns stats, other? Is their list of the top million domains public? I would love to see the data.
dumbfounder on HN
Would the site vanish if it entered the top million?
From 1 comment
If millionshort.com made it into the top 1 million domains would it cease to exist?
dumbfounder on HN
Alternatives named
Million Short search engine by the same makers
From 1 comment
This is by the same guys as the million short search engine (Google minus the top million). Probably good to use this in combination with the dns to find things that are not just…
samwillis on HN