February 2007 Blog Posts

OpenDNS Accounts to replace account-less preferences in April

When OpenDNS invited the public in on July 10, 2006, there was not yet a mechanism for controlling your DNS preferences. It only took one week for us to get started, with the introduction of account-less preferences (for single,…

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CBS 5: "OpenDNS Makes the Internet Fast"

The San Francisco CBS affiliate, KPIX, aired a segment yesterday about OpenDNS and how it makes the Internet faster. We were even the teaser before the commercial! John Roberts and our much-appreciated local customer, Sean…

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Making CacheCheck easier to use

We added two usability improvements to OpenDNS CacheCheck today.

1. When you refresh the cache for a domain, CacheCheck now automatically refreshes the records for that domain’s zone. For example, if you refresh www.opendns.com,…

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Great minds think alike...but some are luckier than others

This year’s Super Bowl commercials were largely uninspired and forgettable, but there was one notable exception. Sprint’s Connectile Dysfunction ad took us by surprise with its clever wordplay and dead-on parody of the drug…

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