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OpenDNS Thanks Its Users with Cranberry Choice for Thanksgiving

Canned or whole cranberries, intelligent DNS platform offers users choice about how they want their turk…err, DNS.

PLYMOUTH ROCK, Mass. – Nov. 22, 2006 – Just in time for the American holiday of Thanksgiving, OpenDNS offers additional choice in DNS: canned cranberry sauce or whole cranberry sauce or none at all.

All OpenDNS users enjoy a fast, free, reliable DNS service, with the safety of phishing prevention and the intelligence of typo correction. That service is available with or without an Account. With a free OpenDNS Account. users can choose their own DNS preferences. Those preferences now include cranberries: canned, whole, or none at all.

By default, OpenDNS will deliver DNS without cranberries. But with an account, OpenDNS users can change their cranberry preference and have that taste distributed around the global OpenDNS network instantly.

Canned versus Whole

It’s a debate that stretches back generations: which kind of cranberry sauce goes best with the traditional turkey dinner? The advocates of canned sauce praise the consistency, in texture, mouth feel, and shape, and welcome the common thread that weaves together Americans throughout the nation. The ridges left by the sturdy can mean Thanksgiving to many.

For others, nothing says Thanksgiving more than whole cranberries, in all their aromatic tartness, waiting to be dribbled over their turkey (and anything else!). The variations are cherished, and the “natural” state gently evokes the first Thanksgiving’s hardships (without actually requiring suffering).

Further background may be enjoyed at “The Great Cranberry Sauce Debate.”

Note: For those who stay on the side of this great divide, stay with the default: DNS without cranberries. It’s still free, fast, and reliable.

Next year’s preference? Indicate whether you like your DNS with dark meat, white meat or drumsticks.

P.S. Happy Thanksgiving. OpenDNS understands that the cranberry preference may be of limited value to those who do not celebrate Thanksgiving; we promise to consider other preferences appropriate to local holidays.

There’s no denying it. The holidays are officially here.

My family will be en route to San Francisco by tomorrow morning and come early Thursday, the house will smell of baking turkey and sound of screaming football fans. (Not kidding about the screaming part. The neighbors have complained.)

It’s at this time of year, more than any other, that we’re compelled to pause and appreciate what we have – family, friends, health, a place to live and food to eat.

If you’re traveling to visit family or friends this week, I urge you to share your knowledge of OpenDNS and help keep them safe from phishing. Perhaps they don’t know what phishing is, even. Think about how much you’ve benefited from the service and know you can pass the benefit along. Take two minutes to add 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 to their Internet preferences and know you’ve done them a service – one that will give over and over again.

If you choose to share OpenDNS, tell us about it. We’d love to hear.

PS – A reminder to print the instructions out before you travel. If you don’t know what type of router your friends or family use, our single computer instructions for Mac and Windows are a good way to go.

PPS – If you live in a part of the world that doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving, this is still as good a time as any to tell friends and family. Giving thanks shouldn’t happen only once a year, anyway.