only what can be checked
Who is running this, and who pays for it.
A verifier that will not say who it is has no business asking anyone else to. Everything below can be checked from a public source, and nothing is stated here that cannot.
operator
The HORIZONs Co., Ltd. · The HORIZ音s株式会社
corporate number
7021001075279 (Japan, publicly searchable)
supervised by
Toshikatsu Oga · ORCID 0009-0000-9180-903X · 30 years on construction sites
contact
contact@the-horizons-innovation.com
code
github.com/ogasurfproject-jpg/horizon-shield. The machine that produces the verdicts is in there.
Money
What we are paid for, and what we are not
not for sale
Verdicts. Listing order. Removal of a row. There is no price for any of these because there is no mechanism for any of these.
no referral fees
Zero. We are not paid by anyone listed here for being listed here.
paid
Continuous monitoring, walking an operator through a condition that is not met, and pre-connection audit reports for companies deciding what to connect.
free forever
The measurement itself. Anyone, any server, no account. Including servers we do not own, and including ours.
The obvious objection
We also sell things that are measured by this machine
Some of the rows on the register are our own servers, and some are firms we brought in. That is a real conflict and pointing it out is not a defence. What we did instead is make the conflict expensive for us:
- →Our own servers are in the same table, measured by the same machine on the same schedule, and they have failed in public.
- →There is no delete. A row that is not green stays visible, and the history stays published.
- →Every verdict is recomputable from a published procedure, so you do not have to take our word for any of it.