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At Klout, we know that understanding your influence through the Klout Score, Moments and analysis is just one step toward being recognized for your influence. We launched our Klout Perks program to recognize influencers with amazing products and experiences, and have partnered with major brands like Sony, Nike, Microsoft, Disney, Audi, Gilt and many others in an attempt to keep upping ourselves. Influencers clearly like this recognition – we delivered our one millionth Perk last week!
We think we’ve found another way to top ourselves…
Today we’re announcing a partnership with American Airlines that gives Klout users access to nearly 40 worldwide lounge locations including San Francisco, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, London and many more. Starting today, if you have a Klout Score of 55 or higher, you can gain access to the Admirals Club by going to aa.com/klout. You do not have to be an American Airlines passenger to be eligible for this Perk.
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This is only the beginning of the momentum we’re seeing with businesses and brands who recognize the power of Klout to further reward their best customers, and introduce themselves to a great breed of new customers.
Go to aa.com/klout to get your Klout treatment!
We aren't supposed to link to resources that don't exist either and (while it's not specifically about DNS) that's exactly what URL rewriting is used for today.
> Using URLs of the form http://example.com/ creates a number of problems, and we strongly recommend that you avoid it. http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/baredomain
> zone apex domains (also called bare, naked, or root domains) ... have serious availability implications https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains
Granted, you don't always have to follow the RFCs...
> the DNS RFC (RFC1033) requires the "zone apex" (sometimes called the "root domain" or "naked domain") to be an "A Record," not a CNAME ... Never one to let a RFC stand in the way of a solution to a real problem, we're happy to announce that CloudFlare allows you to set your zone apex to a CNAME http://blog.cloudflare.com/zone-apex-naked-domain-root-domai...
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034#section-4.3.3
To be fair, NFS Has had a history of doing things old-school (which is fine for most of their clientele), but the availability implications of Heroku is for something completely different. Also they're a special case with a much more complicated backend.
If you only have a dedicated box, or if you have a full time on-pager sysops team, then, yes, it's easy enough to set A records on the zone apex pointing to your web server.