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Today we announced that OpenDNS now has 3 million users. That’s a lot of people. It’s also roughly the number of people living in Los Angeles, CA according to the 2000 Census.

If you’re reading this you’re probably one of those 3 million OpenDNS users. You did a great thing for your network by enabling OpenDNS, the biggest AND fastest-growing DNS service in the world.

2008 is poised to be a big year. We’re working hard to bring all sorts of new features to your OpenDNS account - tools we know you’re gonna wonder how you ever lived without. (Hint: Look for Web content filtering to get better and better.) As always, if you have an idea for a way we can make the service better for you, don’t hesitate to pass it along. Chances are some of the other 2,999,999 OpenDNS users want the same thing.

Happy New Year everyone.

We just served our 500,000,000,000th DNS request. In other words, a half trillion. Because of how we aggregate our stats and the volume in which we do them (many at the same time) we don’t know exactly what the 500 billionth request was. I’m sure it was a good one.

If I had to guess, it was probably someone looking up one of the best tech sites on the net, Digg.com or someone visiting one of the best new tech bloggers, Paul Stamatiou.

Update: Now that I think about it, it was probably someone buying a nice gift for their special someone over at Kathy Van Zeeland. (KVZ uses OpenDNS, of course)

Earlier today, OpenDNS resolved its 300,000,000,000th DNS request. That’s two months after hitting 200 billion, and five months after resolving our first 100 billion. In the past two weeks, we’ve been resolving more than 2 billion requests daily (stats).

All of us want to thank our customers for making OpenDNS the world’s largest and fastest-growing DNS service. With zero downtime (system status).

Yesterday, OpenDNS resolved its 200,000,000,000th request. That’s 200 billion with a b.

Thank you to our many customers for making OpenDNS the world’s largest and fastest-growing DNS service. It’s been less than 3 months since we responded to the 100 billionth request. We’ve averaged more than 1 billion requests/day for that period. On Thursday, OpenDNS responded to 1.4 billion DNS requests (stats).

All that, with zero downtime (system status), thanks to multiple servers spread across five geographically distributed locations connected by multiple Tier 1 telco providers to deliver an amazingly fast, reliable Internet experience no matter the size of your network.

Come on in! Get started.

The magic numbers:

• 208.67.222.222
• 208.67.220.220