Browse Blog Posts In Category “Milestones”

Big News from OpenDNS

When I shared some stats earlier this year about our terrific 2012 growth, we already had big plans in the works to take OpenDNS to new heights. This morning we made two big announcements about how we’ll make it happen. First,…

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OpenDNS by the numbers in 2012

2012 was an outstanding year for OpenDNS. We’ve shared a number of great stats about the health of our business and the great security company we’re building with the press, and I wanted to share them here, too.

We grew our…

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DNSCrypt for Windows has arrived.

In December we delivered a preview of one of the most critical and innovative technologies DNS security has seen. DNSCrypt, available initially only for Mac, works by encrypting all DNS traffic between you and your DNS provider,…

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A tour of the new OpenDNS.com

OpenDNS.com has been redesigned to make resources more readily-available, and offer more insight into why OpenDNS is the best way to secure your network from threats at the DNS layer.

Let’s go for a quick tour:

The Technology…

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Ninety percent of public K-12 schools in Maine use OpenDNS

It’s a story we’ve heard time and again. Public school budgets are smaller than ever, and the funds devoted to improving technology (and security) get cut in half, and then cut in half again. Network administrators at schools are…

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Best Week Ever! Best Week Ever!

Nope, that’s not a typo in the headline, we had our best week ever, for the last two weeks running. It’s a great pleasure to run a company that has grown consistently since its inception five years ago. Being able to watch…

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22 Trillion DNS Requests Later, OpenDNS Turns Five

Five years of OpenDNS. We’ve come so far and have much to be thankful for.

In 2005, before launching OpenDNS, I went to talk with some of the leading DNS experts to get feedback — and the feedback I received was consistent…

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Milestone: 30 Billion DNS Requests in a day! Woo Hoo!

We just hit a big milestone at OpenDNS and I wanted to share it with you. Today OpenDNS successfully resolved the most DNS requests we’ve ever handled in a single day – 30 billion DNS requests!

We recently brought a Singapore…

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Reflecting on the World Economic Forum in Davos

Back in September I announced that OpenDNS had been selected as a World Economic Forum (WEF) Technology Pioneer for 2011. This is one of the greatest honors our company has ever received, second only to the recommendations our…

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End of the Year Contest: OpenDNS Haiku [Updated!]

UPDATE: And the winning haiku is:

Click malicious link?
OpenDNS says, “No.”
Surf on friends! Surf on.

-Christopher Manar

Two runners up:

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-David Desmond

The morning is slow
OpenDNS is fast
A world on my…

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