Love the comment about clip art. Vic "Vaporware" Gundotra. Yes I remember it well. Google is the new Microsoft. No joke.

Why isn't there a market (equal to the one for boards like these) for enclosures, "home racks" or something similar to house these things? Or is there a market but this guy just wanted to save a few quid?

Couldn't you accomplish this with djbdns' dnsrewrite or pdns_recursor's lua scripting?

Why anyone would want to write DNS server (=something that needs to be very fast) in Javascript is beyond my comprehension. The ASCII art is probably better work than the DNS server.

Or unbound's python scripting. Or if GeoScaling slightly improves its excellent smart subdomain service, 2 lines of php script.

That's funny. I would interpet it the other way around. It doesn't say much for SV if they have to make money off of redundant little .js hacks like this. They have nothing better? That's the problem with SV. Lots of stupid money, conniving VC and no standard for what constitutes an actual business. They can take anything and spin it into a "company" just to reach a "helluva exit". What a joke. It is all going to implode.