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2026 0316 A club for symmetrical DNS names

I have a demonstrated interest in symmetrical DNS names.

“Symmetrical” could mean several things. Maybe a single name that is a palindrome, like if you owned elpmaxe.www.example. Maybe a pair of names that have reversed components, like if you owned example.institute and institute.example. Or maybe URLs that can be cut in half and flipped 180°, like https://zq.suns.bz//:sdʇʇɥ.

With this interest, an unhealthy predilection to stay up late typing things into porkbun “just to see”, and the extremely flimsy justification that it would be fun to build all this on AWS and use hugo deploy instead of a full-fat static site host like Netlify, I found myself in possession of suns.bz. I set about building a tiny system that receives POST requests, validates DNS entries, and records validated entries. A club with membership, in other words.

I have some ideas for the future, like maybe a web ring, or a game inspired by https://ipv4.games/. Contributions are welcome.

Do you also have an interest in symmetrical names? Do you control a DNS zone? In that case, please join!

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