This week Facebook recommended OpenDNS on its Security Page, the place Facebook users are encouraged to go to learn how to stay safe on Facebook and on the Internet. OpenDNS is recommended because it takes the guesswork out of identifying phishing scams for you. Even if you click a suspicious link sent to you in a message by your Facebook friend, or posted on your wall, we’ll still prevent you from being fooled by showing you a warning. That’s a lot of incentive to use OpenDNS.
Like other social networks, Facebook seems to be working hard to eliminate phishing on its site. The more popular a site becomes, the more phishers are inclined to use it for phishing and saying Facebook has been gaining in popularity as of late is an understatement.
While Facebook has been growing its global user base we’ve been growing ours, and a big part of the reason people choose OpenDNS is our anti-phishing service. PhishTank.com has identified and verified more than 300,000 individual phishing scams, all of which are blocked for our users.
We’re thrilled Facebook recommends our service. 
Mina
This is great. I use Facebook myself. I’m just starting to enjoy the benefits of OpenDNS. I’m not savvy enough to change the DNS on the router, but I’ll certainly enjoy giving my computer and the other computers on the network a way to restore functionality. Before OpenDNS, we had no way to keep connected to Yahoo messenger without 20 minutes’ worth of reconnections because the DNS was messed up by the ISP. So annoying.
posted on December 18th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Mark
Mina, That is great that you are benefiting from OpenDNS. I too, benefit. I would be more than willing to help you get your router configured, gratis, so any Internet connected device on your network gets to benefit from OpenDNS. Feel free to contact me if you are interested. mark at keenpath.com.
posted on December 18th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Bill Sodeman
Excellent! I’ve been telling students and colleagues about OpenDNS for the last year, but a few have asked “who else recommends OpenDNS?”
“Facebook” is a nice answer!
posted on December 19th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Todd
Might I recommend OpenDNS create its own Fan Page on Facebook. You can use that to virally spread the word about your org. I for one would “fan” your page.
posted on December 21st, 2008 at 6:55 am
Ulanda
Everytime I try to get on facebook with this opendns, it says it is a blocked domain. What’s going on??
posted on December 21st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Mark
Todd, There currently is a fan page on Facebook for OpenDNS. If you do a search inside of Facebook for OpenDNS its the first result. There are about 355 members or so.
Ulanda, It sounds like the administrator of your network has blocked Facebook either manually using Domain Blocking, or by using the Category Social Networks. Your best bet is to submit feedback on the block page with a description.
posted on December 31st, 2008 at 8:54 am
Matt Willims
Ulanda, have you configured any block categories on OpenDNS yet? My guess would be that you have the social networking category ticked and it blocking it based on that.
posted on January 2nd, 2009 at 2:54 am
Hector
Hola, soy de México y la verdad es que mí proveedor de internet Telmex, deja mucho que desear con sus servidores de DNS. Pareciera que uno no puede usar su IP dinámica para relacionarla con un dominio propio por que curiosamente desde México se vuelve inalcansable para todos los que usan su conexión a internet. Su opción contratar una IP Fija a 140 USD al mes. Por suerte existe OpenDNS, para los que lideamos con este tipo de empresas. Doy gracias por vivir en un mundo globalizado e interconectado en donde uno puede tener acceso a servicios de mejor calidad en otros países.
Felicidades al equipo de Open DNS. Un saludo desde México!
posted on January 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Zhang
Excellent! I will be telling my friends and family that the popular Facebook also recommend OpenDNS.
posted on January 4th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Brian
Well I recommend it too
The speed gain I’ve gotten from OpenDNS is quite amazing. Why its so hard for a regular ISP to have decent servers is beyond me.
posted on January 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Shii
This is a great service! It fixed my ISP problems. You should set up a fan page on Facebook so users can add you.
posted on January 17th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Andrew
I am a fan of opendns on facebook and i’m a big fan of open dns in general! keep on rockin!!!
posted on January 19th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Keith
Thanks to MicroMart, here in the UK. I’ve just started to use OpenDNS on my pc. Still not sure how to add the settings to the router (I think they’re locked by my ISP!!). But changing the settings in ‘My Network Places’ has done the trick
Thanks for the clear instructions 
posted on January 25th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
atrix
This is great, myself is frequent user of Facebook. Found out they support OpenDNS thrilled me too. Love it !!
posted on February 1st, 2009 at 4:59 pm
toma
yes that is right i love it too.
posted on May 24th, 2009 at 11:43 pm