First, what Cloudflare does is hard and I want to start with that.

That being said, I think it’s worth a discussion. How much of the last 3 outages were because of the JGC (the former CTO) retiring and Dane taking over?

Did JGC have a steady hand that’s missing? Or was it just time for outages that would have happened anyway?

Dane has maintained a culture of transparency which is fantastic, but did something get injected in the culture leading towards these issues? Will it become more or less stable since JGC left?

Curious for anyone with some insight or opinions.

(Also, if it wasn’t clear - huge Cloudflare fan and sending lots of good vibes to the team)

Looking at Dane's career history on LinkedIn, it appears that he has only ever been in product and some variety of manager, and his degree is in 'Engineering Management System'. It's an odd choice given that the previous two CTOs (Lee and John) were extremely technical and how core technology is to Cloudflare.

As with any organisation where the CTO is not technical, there will be someone who the 'CTO' has to ask to understand technical situations. In my opinion, that person being asked is the real CTO, for any given situation.

looks cool - would be nice if it could view by city.

nice job!

great idea and execution!

Noticed several of the great domains it recommended were already taken tho

Thank you! On a rare occasion it would report taken as available; most often it reports domains that are for sale privately or at a high price as available because well, theoretically they are available, just not for a good price of $12, but something like 3 to 10 thousand dollars. I should find a way to filter those and perhaps mark them as "premium".

Another great post Ian!

If any researcher here needs data or help to do investigations like this please reach out to me chris at securitytrails.com - we're trying to hone the tools to be as useful as possible with as little effort.

hey Josh - just want to throw it out there that we love baremetrics.

serious question: does anyone think this is a good idea? is there an argument that this could be a good thing?

are you using http or https? following redirects? how many? This is all going to change the study.

you can compare it to this: https://www.isitwp.com/

It doesn't work, I introduced the url of my page (programadorwebvalencia.com) made in Jekyll (a static site) and it tells me that it is WordPress.

you have to use a larger sample. There are 300M+ domains. The longer tail will surely have more wordpress in it.

Some other notes: 1) you're not checking subdomains like blog.company.com or paths like company.com/blog 2) if you use something like zgrab you can do 1M site crawl in a couple of hours. Consider checking it out.

Or more Wix, Squarespace, and Shopify in it.