Comments on: OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites

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By: bob

bob — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:41:01 +0000

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bob — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:40:57 +0000

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Sequoia, Greylock Take Stake In OpenDNS | Stoth — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:40:36 +0000

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By: Sequoia, Greylock Take Stake In OpenDNS

Sequoia, Greylock Take Stake In OpenDNS — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:41:44 +0000

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By: Paul W

Paul W — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:11:47 +0000

Sean, that’s just a mere fact. You’ll never be able to sell that to the idiot masses who thing that large scale services like this can magically run without fees or ads. If only the evil corpucrats wouldn’t focus on making money and just make life fun for everyone! Some of these empty-headed slackers later find work in politics where they continue to believe that money grows on trees.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:09:22 +0000

Honestly guys… They have to pay for their millions in infrastructure and network costs somehow. Either you pay a monthly fee to use the service, or you get it for free and they monetize it somehow other way. If it seems that somebody is offering a competing service for free for now, the only guarantee is that it’s a temporary attempt to get customers and collect data, after which they will either start charging or start using that data to make money. It all comes down to making money (even for non-profits). Nothing is free. Don’t expect it to be.

By: ¿Problemas con los DNS’s de tu ISP? Usa OpenDNS

¿Problemas con los DNS’s de tu ISP? Usa OpenDNS — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:09:59 +0000

[...] Un efecto secundario de usar OpenDNS es que si visitas un dominio no existente o que no funciona, serás redirigido a una página de búsqueda de ellos, con anuncios claro, función de donde OpenDNS obtiene bastantes ingresos. [...]

By: Following_the_industry

Following_the_industry — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:10:03 +0000

There is another competitor for OpenDNS from the old CyberPatrol. This year a group of private investors acquired CyberPatrol from security vendor Websense, Inc. Soon after they purchased Emerald Technology, Inc (6/2008) and a couple of months later the launched a new offering (8/25/08) named SiteSURV that directly competes with OpenDNS.

SiteSURV is also based on DNS to offer content filtering. The difference is that they charge per user/computer instead of being free (ad-based) so their is not typo correction or ad supported pages for a query that does not resolve. Their pricing is $119 for 10 users per year ($19 per user per year) with the price per user decreasing with more users. This is an alternative for people that do not care for the ads.

I think it will be interesting to see how this evolve. Free/ad-based vs pay service. Unfortunately, we already know that the Web have trained the majority of users to be accustomed to free things (ad-based) even if its comes with some privacy sacrifices or annoying functionality (…free email, free chat, free content). The only ones that will be able to charge for anything on the Web are the Amazons of the world that sale real stuff. Everyone else is just eating from Google or Yahoo (lucky Microsoft, at least they have the Windows/Office franchise)…Let’s see what happens.

By: AP

AP — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:52:15 +0000

Google should come up with a service like this. Then they could keep their own revenew.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:49:24 +0000

OpenDNS is nice, but unfortunate it’s funded by advertising, the very thing that delivers most of the spyware/malware you get. While they set out to do a great thing, I think greed got the better of them. In my opinion it would have been much better to offer the service for a fee rather than to resolve typos and non-existant domains to ads.

As an IT consultant I grew very tired of cleaning up spyware/malware and the expense of hardware/subscription based content filters, that’s why I came up with my own solution: DNS Redirector – which was publicly available ~3 years before OpenDNS.

Today I’m left wondering if I have put myself out of a job, because my customers who used to call all the time with problems related to porn or advertisements just don’t have those problems anymore.

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Пульс интернета с 21 по 27 июля - inVenture — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:58:43 +0000

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By: caribbean social network

caribbean social network — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:02:26 +0000

OpenDNS is a great idea.. This will help protect businesses and parents who want to filter certain sites..

By: doctord

doctord — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:57:02 +0000

Tried to use it and noticed speed problems. My isp’s dns servers are faster.

By: Frank Daley

Frank Daley — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:16:18 +0000

The OpenDNS service is fantastic. I have been using it myself for more than 12 months and have also set it up for a number of home and SMB users.

Agreed that the use of “Open” is an unfortunate misnomer.

But overall, I say congratulations to OpenDNS for a fantastic service that has continued to improve – for example, a couple of months ago the granularity of categories was greatly improved.

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Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:10:47 +0000

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By: OpenDNS earns $20k/day filtering “phishing and porn”

OpenDNS earns $20k/day filtering “phishing and porn” — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:23:29 +0000

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By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:07:54 +0000

The only free thing in this world is the cheese in the mouse trap.

I wasn’t aware that OpenDNS is altering, not just blocking; knowing this now I will never use it, nor recommend it!

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:37:25 +0000

IT can just setup a whitelist of approved IP addresses. There’s no getting around that (not even with proxies), since only traffic to approved services would go through.

Obviously, this would mean using Yahoo or Live for search, to avoid the Google Cache and Translate loopholes…

By: Happy

Happy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:34:15 +0000

Expulsion will generally stop a 13 year old from viewing porn at school. After the expulsion, the kid will be using someone else’s computer.

By: Ad Server

Ad Server — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:47:11 +0000

We’ve been using OpenDNS for all of our computers and it’s fast and reliable. We have not experienced any outage for at least one year or more, can’t remember!

By: Jon Rolley

Jon Rolley — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:55:43 +0000

I run porn sites for a living, and I was worried about censorship too. I just tried using OpenDNS and I found all my sites work fine with a base install, so I guess you have to manually set it to filter adult content, which is great. My new free porn tube site worked fine too, and we use Squid.. No problems. http://www.norp.com if someone is interested. As far as the adult industry is concerned, we can’t ask for anything more than that!

By: Random Person

Random Person — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:23:13 +0000

OpenDNS has an exlcusive advertising deal with Yahoo. The “google proxy” is so that OpenDNS shortcuts work when you have the Google toolbar installed. Paranoids read more into it than what is there.

By: The Spectrum of Cybersecurity Approaches « Blurring Borders

The Spectrum of Cybersecurity Approaches « Blurring Borders — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:15:08 +0000

[...] approach to Internet security I recently learned about is OpenDNS which aims to speed up web-surfing and block malware sites. Unfortunately, because it is marketed as a solution to businesses, libraries and schools, [...]

By: Chris Parente

Chris Parente — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:25:51 +0000

Good conversation. Could someone — Mark Kaplan, David himself — explain the paragraph in post about only working with Yahoo vs. the comment re Google proxy servers?

Thanks.