September 2010 Blog Posts

Five Questions with an OpenDNS User: James Trippe

We frequently hear from people who are excited because OpenDNS has increased their Internet speed. James Trippe is something of an extreme case. He recently reached out to us and told us about how websites were taking a minute to…

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And the Prize for Best Slogan Goes To...

Earlier this month, we asked you to come up with your favorite OpenDNS slogan. We like to say OpenDNS makes networks safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, but we wanted to hear how you describe us, too.

When we closed the…

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Benvenuti ai Nostri Amici Italiani

Yesterday, the DNS servers of Alice.it, one of Italy’s largest ISPs, went down for several hours. People who rely on Alice.it for their Internet waited. And waited. And then waited some more for their Internet to come back…

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Five Questions with an OpenDNS User: Alexander Brown

When Internet and college students mix, there’s bound to be some less than savory websites being accessed. Such is the story of Alexander Brown, an IT support engineer at Boland College in South Africa. He was at his wit’s end…

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Proxies and Anonymizers: No Match for OpenDNS

A recent survey of IT Managers revealed that dealing with proxies and anonymizers — websites that allow users on a network to bypass Web content filtering that’s been set up — is a major headache: 87 percent of IT managers in…

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New Feature: Greater Block Page Customization

Starting today, all OpenDNS network administrators can choose whether or not they’d like to include a link to “Contact your network administrator” on the block page that pops up when users on your network try to access…

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Five Questions with an OpenDNS User: Keith Young

He rescues kittens in trees and people from car accidents. He’s a security official by day, and volunteer firefighter by night (and sometimes in the day, too). Meet Keith Young, EMT and volunteer firefighter for the Myersville…

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Five Questions with an OpenDNS User: Cameron Brister

In today’s installment of “Five Questions” we journey to the American South for a quick conversation with Senior Systems Engineer and OpenDNS fan Cameron Brister.

Tell us a little bit about where you work and why you use OpenDNS…

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World Economic Forum Names OpenDNS a 2011 Technology Pioneer

It’s been a tremendously exciting few weeks at OpenDNS. We’ve received some fantastic press coverage and experienced our biggest growth week ever. Today, I’m thrilled to announce some more good news: OpenDNS has been named a 2011…

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