OpenDNS serves half a billion queries. w00t!!!

by David Ulevitch, Founder/CEO on Dec 19th, 2006

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.

If you’ve liked us in 2006, you’re going to love us in 2007. We’ve got some really fantastic technologies coming together that are going to continue to make the Internet a sweeter place to be (and it’s pretty sweet already).



Now if only I had a dollar for every DNS query…

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8 Responses

1. Josh Skidmore

   David,

   What’s even nicer than half a billion queries is that just like yesterday, OpenDNS still has the same quick speed and reliability as it did in September.

   Obviously you’re doing something right because ‘growing pains’ doesn’t seem to be in the vocabulary here.

   (Oh, you’re half a billion dollar check is in the mail … the bank is putting me through loops ever since that time I tried to by Facebook.)

   Congrats!
   -Josh

   posted on December 19th, 2006 at 7:31 pm

2. Manuzhai

   Great!

   Is there any news on getting a server in Europe?

   posted on December 19th, 2006 at 10:03 pm

3. David Ulevitch

   Manuzhai,

   It’s my top priority to make it happen before Christmas. Every morning I sit down and check on the status of where we are and I can tell you we are days away, not weeks or months.

   posted on December 19th, 2006 at 11:08 pm

4. w7

   You are too greedy. $0.01 per query would do me nicely. Great stuff, though. Looking forward to the London-based server.
   Merry Christmas!

   posted on December 20th, 2006 at 1:33 am

5. Karl Viklund

   OpenDNS is an excellent service! I love it!
   Now I’m just waiting for the servers in EU.

   posted on December 20th, 2006 at 4:01 am

6. Noah

   great news! I just set openDNS on my family router!

   posted on December 20th, 2006 at 7:44 am

7. Adam Messner

   Congratulations! Good news for you and me; seemingly bad news for phishers and slower DNS service providers.

   posted on December 20th, 2006 at 8:50 pm

8. David Hall

   I think this calls for you to update your website from 100,000,000 (or are you waiting longer just so you only have to add a comma and a 0?)

   posted on December 22nd, 2006 at 10:02 pm

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