June 2007 Blog Posts

I just saved a bunch of money on my DNS service by switching to OpenDNS!

Yeah, we make your life easier with our 100% reliability and we save you time with super speedy browsing. We even keep you and yours safe with optional phishing protection. But often times it’s hard to quantify the amount of money…

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OpenDNS Terms of Use updated

We moved our San Francisco offices this week (a block away) and had to update our address in a bunch of places. I took that as an opportunity to review our Terms of Use.

Very little needs changing, but I wanted to share the…

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I have this friend, who saw this website...

The Internet is a big place and even with the best filtering you will eventually stumble upon a site you wish you could just “un-see.” Unfortunately, we can’t erase that mental picture from your mind, but we can let you help…

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T-minus 30 days: The countdown to SysAdmin Appreciation Day Begins

Once a year, we honor the person who keeps the mail server running, restores the file you accidentally deleted and makes sure you can watch funny videos of cats. This person is the SysAdmin, the unsung hero of every great…

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OpenDNS resolves 200 billion requests, never blinks

Yesterday, OpenDNS resolved its 200,000,000,000th request. That’s 200 billion with a b.

Thank you to our many customers for making OpenDNS the world’s largest and fastest-growing DNS service. It’s been less than 3 months since we…

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What's considered an adult site? Find out...

The famous quote about defining pornography is “I know it when I see it,” from a 1964 Supreme Court case. I’m glad we’re working with St. Bernard Software to get human-reviewed categorization of adult sites for our adult site…

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DNS outages are not Comcastic

BroadbandReports.com tells us Comcast’s DNS servers had a rough weekend. According to reports from Comcast customers, instead of being able to surf freely they were confronted with this page when they attempted to visit any Web…

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Adult site blocking now available on OpenDNS

Last month, when we launched the ability to block specific domains, we heard from you loud and clear: you want the ability to block adult websites in an easy way that puts you in control. Today we’re excited to offer you that…

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Some feedback for a Friday?

It’s a Friday and it’s warm out. So naturally I’m heading to a datacenter with George to go rack some gear. :-) Before I head out, I wanted to do a quick post and let people know that we’ve expanded our testimonials page a bit…

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