[skcin7]

BarackObama.com is hosted with Amazon Web Services as well. We can know by examining the domain servers when you look at the [whois record](http://whois.domaintools.com/barackobama.com) for that domain. (On a related note, the domain registrar used is GoDaddy)

It makes sense - government needs to host their files somehow, as we are moving into this digital age.

I don't see anything wrong with it, though it will further cement Amazon's standing as a big business superpower.

[jlgaddis]

That tells you that barackobama.com is using Amazon's Route 53 for DNS services.

This, however, shows that they are using AWS (EC2) for hosting:

    $ host -t a barackobama.com
    barackobama.com has address 50.19.226.77
    $ host 50.19.226.77
    77.226.19.50.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-50-19-226-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com.

[andreyf]

Off-topic: (foo)[url] syntax only works on reddit, on HN I usually put something like this [1]

1. url

[Semaphor]

It's markdown, a few more sites use that syntax. HN uses formatdoc which is a very small subset of markdown.

[gknoy]

Thank you! I've been wondering how people do italics and the like. Your post helped me find an HN comment [1] which discussed the Arc source code for highlighting.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606843 2: http://arcfn.com/doc/app.html#markdown

[Semaphor]

No problem, not sure if it's linked somewhere but there is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[thejosh]

There is a difference between a public facing website and what the CIA will use AWS for.