December 2006 Blog Posts

Live from London, it's OpenDNS!

OpenDNS network map, updated. Full map.

It’s been a long time coming, but we are now online and operational in London! We actually turned up our routing announcements about two days ago but I wanted to hold off on the blog post…

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OpenDNS Forums: You've got questions. Lots of us have answers.

We launched Forums today for you to provide a venue to discuss the world of OpenDNS. This isn’t a weak attempt to get rid of support but is a new way for our users to communicate with us and each other. We are focused on…

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How OpenDNS saved Caio's job

We get lots of email, everyday, from our customers. Most of the emails are similar in topic – someone asking how to use OpenDNS with their setup. But every once in a while an email comes through that’s so touching we pass it…

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OpenDNS serves half a billion queries. w00t!!!

Today is a big milestone for OpenDNS. We served over 500,000,000 DNS requests in a single day. It seems like just yesterday that we hit 4 billion queries total and 100,000,000 queries per day. That’s child’s play these days…

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How to be sure a domain is resolving correctly: CacheCheck

We’ve announced OpenDNS CacheCheck, available at http://cache.opendns.com. If you wonder what’s in the OpenDNS cache for a domain, take a look. If you want OpenDNS to refresh its cache for a domain, use CacheCheck to do it…

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Opera adds phishing protection, powered by PhishTank

Opera and OpenDNS announced this morning that the latest version of the browser blocks phishing sites with PhishTank data. We’re pretty excited about it. (Just blogged about this over on the PhishTank blog, too.)

If you’re poking…

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Lifehacker: OpenDNS is one of the best apps of 2006!

Lifehacker loves OpenDNS and OpenDNS loves Gina Trapani, the editor over at Lifehacker. Gina named OpenDNS as one of The Best Apps of 2006!

We’re honored to be given this award. I know we will be doing great new things in 2007…

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Five questions with an OpenDNS user: John Fitch

John Fitch
Big Geek Daddy

OpenDNS: Tell us about yourself. What do you do for a living?

JF: I’m a former Marine with a BA in History and a MBA and I’m currently in sales for a Fortune 100 company. I’ve been married for over 10…

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OpenDNS now typo-correcting for .it domains

In response to a comment from Andrew to my previous post, we’re now auto-correcting typos for Italian Web sites – .iy domains are automatically corrected to .it

We love hearing how we can make our service better for you. Keep…

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Welcome Italians, Italiani benvenuti

Benvenuti a tutti gli Italiani che hanno letto di noi su La Repubblica. Ci gratifica molto sapere che il nostro servizio DNS, piu’ sicuro, piu’ utile e piu’ veloce, sia maggiormente conosciuto ora. Nelle prossime settimane,…

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