<story><title>Building fast.com</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/building-fastcom.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greenspot</author><text>First, I thought why another speed test, then I saw that they  link their results directly to speedtest.net (the reference) and finally, I realized that fast.com is so much faster in detecting the download speed (but lacks upload and ping).&lt;p&gt;Not bad.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: And they secured a fantastic domain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twinkletwinkle</author><text>I think the point was they conduct the speed test from the same servers that deliver video content. So ISPs can&amp;#x27;t throttle video streaming without it showing up in this speed test.</text></comment>
<story><title>Building fast.com</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/building-fastcom.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greenspot</author><text>First, I thought why another speed test, then I saw that they  link their results directly to speedtest.net (the reference) and finally, I realized that fast.com is so much faster in detecting the download speed (but lacks upload and ping).&lt;p&gt;Not bad.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: And they secured a fantastic domain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenspot</author><text>Since they took this precious domain, I was wondering about the purchase price and if it was worth to buy this awesome domain—we are talking here about a mid six digit at least, rather seven digits.&lt;p&gt;Then, I checked how much traffic speedtest.net is getting on SimilarWeb: wow, 150m visits per month, I didn&amp;#x27;t know that speed testing can be so popular.&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: Yes, it was right to buy this domain and if fast.com gets a large part of speedtest.net&amp;#x27;s traffic in the long term, Netflix has a neat free Marketing channel.</text></comment>