April 2011 Blog Posts

A new POP in Frankfurt, and some sysadmin travel tips

Here at OpenDNS we’re always working on expanding our global footprint and adding datacenter locations around the world. Understanding why this is important is easy when you know two things:

The more servers and locations we…

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A better privacy policy

Writing a Privacy Policy is hard work. A part of me would love to just have a Privacy Policy that says, “We won’t do anything stupid” — Just like I’d love a Terms of Service that says “Don’t do anything stupid.”…

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How to Identify a Spear Phish

Earlier this month, email marketing provider Epsilon announced that their database was hacked. Millions of email addresses were exposed thanks to this breach, and in the following days and weeks many of the companies that used…

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Tag a Domain For Good – All Month Long

Hey, do you like the idea of helping out while helping out? We do too, which is why throughout the month of April, OpenDNS will be donating 2 cents for every valid vote in Domain Tagging to the American Red Cross!

Domain…

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Announcing the “Internet Phonebook”

A couple of months ago, we created use.opendns.com (http://208.69.38.205/), a page you can visit if you or a friend’s ISP stops loading websites due to a DNS outage. Switch to OpenDNS using those instructions and you should be…

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