“Site-Lookup Service Foils Fraud” is Ryan Singel’s Wired News writeup about OpenDNS. Ryan and Kevin Poulsen, senior editor at Wired, publish 27BStroke6, a blog about security and privacy, so they grokked what we’re doing — putting some new intelligence into DNS.
Ulevitch’s seven-person startup is an attempt to revolutionize a layer of the internet’s architecture in order to clean its underbelly of scammers and spammers.
One important feature which is not yet available, but will be soon, is self-service control over the DNS settings. Ryan’s article, understandably, doesn’t mention this capability, since it’s not yet live.
The point? We’re going to put more control in your hands, so if you want to turn off features like typo correction or phishing prevention, you’ll be able to. Account management is the top priority now, to help demonstrate the power of control over your DNS. We think transparency and control will show you (not just tell) that we’re making the right choices. (UPDATE: July 17, 2006: try the preferences out. First step, with more to come. November 7, 2006: Set up an OpenDNS account.)
I encourage you to read the article for yourself. Having worked to explain what we do via our website, it’s rewarding to read an external description of OpenDNS that makes a lot of sense. Lots of people are reading the article and submitting excellent questions: we’ll be adding to the FAQ today.
T. Longren
What’s Wrong With OpenDNS?…
OpenDNS is surely going to prove to be a useful tool for those not intimately familiar with the internet. OpenDNS, provides some unique functionality compared with other DNS servers in that it detects typos and prevents phishing. For example, say you…
posted on July 10th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
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posted on July 10th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Tom Parker
Looks like you managed to pull through the digg effect too
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posted on July 11th, 2006 at 3:06 am
Christian Knappskog
You’ve also been featured on the Buzz Out Loud! podcast. Cnet’s main podcast with hundreds of thousands of listeners. : http://bol.cnet.com/
posted on July 11th, 2006 at 3:46 am
Rohan Pinto » OpenDNS
[...] I’m not sure on how far this could be a valid argument, as the openDNS system currently DOES NOT correct errors in the domain name itself, but just in the domain suffixes. As far as typo corrections in the domain name itself but in the domain suffixes. in a recent blog post, it was also mentioned that this service would put “CONTROL” in the users hands. One important feature which is not yet available, but will be soon, is self-service control over the DNS settings. Ryan’s article, understandably, doesn’t mention this capability, since it’s not yet live. [...]
posted on July 11th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Brian K
I started using OpenDNS yesterday and discovered that it is indeed a faster resolver than my high-speed Internet DNS resolver. OpenDNS’s ability to correct incorrectly spelled domain names is terrific and in testing accurately identifies spamming and phishing sites. Definitely impressive. I’d like to see where they’ll take it, such as filtering at the name resolution level to prevent unwanted content from being accessed by children, etc. Once again, impressive!
posted on July 11th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Doug
I’d love to see spyware rendered useless. The host file attack while effective is so much less elegant. Man, there are so many options. I’d even pay a small monthly fee to block porn, spyware, and add sites.
posted on July 11th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
What’s Wrong With OpenDNS? at T. Longren
[...] But, I’m sure these questions will be answered in the near future, after all, today is the company’s first day with exposure to the “public”. There’s already mention of a new feature on the most recent post at the OpenDNS blog. One important feature which is not yet available, but will be soon, is self-service control over the DNS settings. Ryan’s article, understandably, doesn’t mention this capability, since it’s not yet live. [...]
posted on August 20th, 2006 at 8:36 pm