One year of OpenDNS

Yep, the free ser­vice that I use to replace my ISPs DNS has turned one. It’s been quite a year of growth, and I star­ted using OpenDNS back in March, but for me, it’s been pretty smooth.

The coolest fea­tures that I use are short­cuts and spelling cor­rec­tion. If I type want to vis­it this blog from my OpenDNS man­aged sys­tems, I simply type ‘blog’ in the browser address bar. If I mistype a web­site address, OpenDNS either makes an assump­tion (microsoft.cm == microsoft.com) or returns a page of near misses.

Earli­er this year, OpenDNS added a few new services:

Domain Block­ing — Many of you asked for a simple way to block a single domain on your net­work. With OpenDNS, now you can. You might have com­plex fire­walls and oth­er gear but they don’t eas­ily do the simple task of block­ing myspace.com. We’re glad to offer this ser­vice, and thou­sands of you have taken advant­age of it. Oh yeah, it’s free.

Adult Site Block­ing — If there was one com­plaint we got about domain block­ing it was that we did­n’t offer a list of adult sites to block. Good news — now we do. We teamed up with our friends at St. Bern­ard Soft­ware to provide an accur­ate and easy way to block adult sites on your net­work. Oh yeah, it’s free too.

Well done OpenDNS, and Happy Birthday!

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