Imagine a DNS server that simply didn't resolve the top 1 million domains. What would happen? What would you discover?

As another experiment, we at Million Short thought it would be pretty interesting to see what would break, what would work, and what we'd discover if we set up a series of DNS servers that redirected the DNS name resolution for up to the top million domains on the net to a "$URL on $domain would not exist page".

So, for example, if you set your machines DNS to use MillionShort DNS Sever 1 (107.22.190.159) pretty much any URL you can think of will display a "$URL on $domain would not exist page".

Also, if you happen to land on a page that isn't int the top millionth web site, but that site links to a JS files on a popular domain - that JS will also "not exist".

With that in mind, we've set up 5 DNS servers


      Remove Top 1 Million Sites: 107.22.190.159

      Remove Top 100k Sites: 23.21.207.146

      Remove Top 10k Sites: 54.243.228.66

      Remove Top 1k Sites: 107.22.217.82

      Remove Top 100 Sites: 184.73.242.177
Some notes:
  • If a domain being requested falls into the particular DNS server range, we resolve the request to dns.millionshort.com (ip) and only port 53 and ports 80 are open on this machine.
    All HTTP requests are streamed through a very simply index.php script with catch all mod_rewrite. Basically index.php outputs a page that says "Hey, this URL is in the top X, try searching for another site";
  • By using the DNS servers, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy policy
  • These servers are experimental/recreational use only. It sort of makes the web feel like it did in the very early days, pre search engines and pre directories.
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