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 announced 10 billion.
Why is this important? Because our rapid and steady growth is an indication of the demand for a rock-solid reliable and intelligent DNS service that not only makes your Internet faster and more reliable, but safer and smarter too. We now have more than 15 million users around the world. More than 25,000 schools in the U.S. choose OpenDNS to keep their kids safe online, and included in that number are some of the country’s largest school districts. Companies ranging from small mom-and-pop shops to Fortune 100 enterprises are switching in droves to OpenDNS for Web content filtering, DNS security and DNS resolution.
2009 was an exceptional year for OpenDNS, but the next year is poised to be even better. In 2010 we’ll be adding more server locations and more server capacity to make our international coverage even better. We’ll give you new features that allow more customization of how OpenDNS works for you. And, we’ll work hard to keep DNS innovation synonymous with OpenDNS.
Thanks for helping us get to 20 billion. I’m confident 50 billion is closer than it may seem. 
dekoderek
Congrats! That’s impressive. Will your servers handle it?
posted on December 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
John Roberts
Where’s the dancing banana?
posted on December 16th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Brad
Very nice!
Congrats OpenDNS, I have been using your service for almost a year and I really enjoy using it
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Keep it up!
posted on December 16th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
David Ulevitch, Founder/CEO
@John Roberts — Allison is more of an adult than I am.
But here ya go:
posted on December 16th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Mahmoud F.Elshazly
Great work.. go to the first..
posted on December 16th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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posted on December 16th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Houssam Moghrabi
Congratulation. I knew this will happen someday and today is the day.
posted on December 16th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Deborah
Congratulations on that astronomical number! I raise my glass to a great 2010 for you all.
Safe surfing,
Deborah
Web of Trust
posted on December 17th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Turkish
Congrats OpenDNS!!!!!Turkish ppl Love you!!!!
posted on December 17th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Mark Mathson
Way to go! Happy to be a few of the 20 billion queries…
posted on December 17th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Shakhawat
Happy to hear that! Go ahead OpenDNS!
posted on December 17th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Yatti420
Wow.. 20 billion for a single day seems like a lot!.. I really hope a Canadian DNS server is setup for 2010..
Running a DNS benchmark there are only 2 DNS servers faster then OpenDNS for me.. Barrett Xplore and Private World Communications..
posted on December 17th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Mohamed Elkhateeb
Congratulations! On this success
posted on December 18th, 2009 at 3:10 am
kusyairi
“In 2010 we’ll be adding more server locations and more server capacity to make our international coverage even better” – I really hope Southeastern Asia DNS server(Malaysia,Singapore)is setup for 2010.Good job OpenDNS!
posted on December 19th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
James Voss
Congratulations!
posted on December 20th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Andrew
What’s more boggling is that works out to 231,000+ DNS queries per second! Ace!
posted on December 21st, 2009 at 10:35 am
Rahul
thats Gr8 !
posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 4:30 am
Xuan Hien
Congratulations!
posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Homiebrah
They serve more DNS queries than McD’s serves…
posted on December 23rd, 2009 at 7:38 am
sjwalter
Interestingly enough, while 20 billion is a big deal and a huge accomplishment, I give bigger props to how much the service has improved in the last 3 months.
Good stuff all around.
posted on December 23rd, 2009 at 11:00 am