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dns.toys
A DNS server that offers useful utilities and services over the DNS protocol. Weather, world time, unit conversion etc.
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Dog is cross platform and has some nice features, like json output.
https://dns.lookup.dog/
DNS is everywhere. It offers massive caching potential. It is well-understood and there are multiple, interoperating, implementations. It is a data diode, which is to say read-only, which can simplify some risk assessments related to attack surface.
The README for this project may explain some of the general benefits (my project): https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns
HTTP is everywhere. I think SOAP sucks, but it's everywhere and it works well enough. (For that matter XHR sucks, but even I use it occasionally.)
(This is not the first time DNS Toys has shown up on Hacker News, there's a link in another comment.)