December 2009 Blog Posts

Headed home for the holidays? Set up OpenDNS for loved ones.

I love this time of year. People are cheerful and kind, offering to help each other however they can.

One of the easiest ways to help others? We’ve reminded you before, but while you’re home for the holidays this year, do your…

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OpenDNS is hiring!

We served 20 billion DNS queries in a single day earlier this week. We power the DNS for 15+ million people around the world. We operate 11 datacenters and are adding more. We’ve never had downtime. We’ve been customer-focused…

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Milestone: 20 billion DNS queries in 24 hours

Yesterday we hit a milestone big enough and important enough to share. In just 24 hours we successfully answered more than 20 billion (!) DNS queries, doubling the number we handle per day since April of this year when we…

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Some thoughts on Google DNS

Google launched a DNS service today, almost exactly four years after I started OpenDNS. This comes as no surprise as it was only a matter of time before one of the Internet giants realized the strategic importance of DNS. I’ve…

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How to enable SmartCache for your network

A few weeks ago we made the decision that SmartCache, one of OpenDNS’s most significant DNS caching innovations, would be available for free to all of our 15 million users around the world, regardless of which version of the…

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