<story><title>DNS: Basic Concepts (2013)</title><url>https://www.petekeen.net/dns-the-good-parts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>callmeed</author><text>If you want a startup&amp;#x2F;side-project idea, here it is. I can tell you from 10+ years in website hosting and maintenance that most laypeople, designers, marketers, and even some technical people will &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; understand DNS. (and they shouldn&amp;#x27;t have to)&lt;p&gt;A small business wants a website at SquareSpace, cloudflare CDN, email at Google Apps, landing pages on a subdomain with Unbounce, their blog on yet another subdomain, and DKIM&amp;#x2F;SPF records for the email newsletter system.&lt;p&gt;Setting this up is not easy for most people. Most people aren&amp;#x27;t even sure &lt;i&gt;where&lt;/i&gt; to do it–let alone &lt;i&gt;how&lt;/i&gt; to do it. (is your registrar handling your DNS? sometimes ...)&lt;p&gt;If you had a 1 or 2-click tool that setup these for people, maybe wrapped it around some domain search&amp;#x2F;affiliate tools, I think you could make some money.&lt;p&gt;My 2¢</text></comment>
<story><title>DNS: Basic Concepts (2013)</title><url>https://www.petekeen.net/dns-the-good-parts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aljones</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Email is so important to the functioning of the Internet that it gets its own record type.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well that is one way of looking at it.  Probably the appropriate way if you&amp;#x27;re teaching, but if you want to be critical then it reeks of poor design for a particular service to get special treatment by a fundamental part of the internet.  It isn&amp;#x27;t that MX records aren&amp;#x27;t needed.  They just shouldn&amp;#x27;t only be useful for email.</text></comment>