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elliottinvent

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Founder of NUM [1], always happy to hear from HN folks – elliott dot brown at the domain in [1]

1. https://www.num.uk

  1. Show HN: Automatic Domain Verification (domainverification.org)

    This is a project I've been working on for a little while and I'm interested in your feedback and point of view. The Domain Verification protocol stores a DNS TXT record at a DNS name derived from a hashed "verifiable…

    27 points 9
  2. Show HN: Make domain verification as easy as verifying an email or phone number (domainverification.org)

    Hi HN, This is a project [1] I've been working on for a little while and I'm interested in your feedback and point of view. Many of us would have verified a domain name by pasting a string into a DNS TXT record. Some…

    86 points 65
  3. A Short History of My Last Six Years (waitbutwhy.com)
    3 points 1
  4. Show HN: NPM package to fetch company contact data and logos

    A small team and I have built an npm package [0] that can be used to fetch company logos and contact data by querying a company domain name. On the face of it, it works like an API but under the hood it works quite…

    1 points 0
  5. Developers offered free, unlimited, unrestricted access to business contact info (iteuropa.com)
    1 points 0
  6. Show HN: DNS-based alternative to Semantic Web – 23M data points now in DNS

    We’ve just launched NUM [1] in the UK, it’s an alternative to the semantic web [2] but based in DNS. We’ve published 23 million data points about 4.8m UK businesses. We had some really interesting HN feedback when we…

    25 points 19
  7. We crawled 5M UK websites and published 23M data points to DNS – here’s why (num.uk)
    3 points 1
  8. Show HN: DNS-powered website with no back end (companydirectory.uk)
    83 points 89
  9. Show HN: DNS-based alternative to the web for structured data (num.uk)
    59 points 32
  10. Ask HN: Object Golf – Shortest way to serialize this object?

    I'm trying to find the most character efficient way to serialize an object. Using the JSON object at https://json.org/example.html (360 characters with all unnecessary spacing removed), what's the fewest characters it…

    1 points 0
  11. Ask HN: Anyone know what this DNS TXT record is?

    There are two DNS TXT records for example.com, one is an SPF record but I can't find out anything about the other one: $ dig example.com TXT +short "v=spf1 -all" "$Id: example.com 4415 2015-08-24 20:12:23Z davids $"…

    3 points 6
  12. Show HN: Minimal Object Description Language – char efficient data serialisation (modl.uk)
    2 points 3
  13. Show HN: Twatter – Find the best available Twitter handle (github.com)
    8 points 1