Windows IT Pro Awards OpenDNS “Reader Favorite” Recognition
Industry leading publication calls OpenDNS “bulletproof,” recommends it to “Secure and Accelerate DNS”
Nov 2, 2007 — SAN FRANCISCO – OpenDNS, the award-winning DNS provider that makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced Windows IT Pro magazine names OpenDNS a “Reader Favorite” in its November 2007 issue. Windows IT Pro is a leading independent, impartial source of practical, technical information to help IT professionals better understand and manage the Windows and SQL Server enterprise. The publication reports a circulation reaching more than 2.5 million IT professionals monthly. OpenDNS is the world’s largest, fastest-growing DNS service.
“As an organization we place tremendous value on the opinions of network admins and IT professionals. Our goal is to provide a service that makes their task of managing DNS easy and liberates them from the hassles of managing multiple appliances and other services,” said David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS. “To have the success of OpenDNS validated by a publication our customers trust is truly an honor.”
Writer Dan Orth applauds every aspect of the OpenDNS service, from the ease with which he created an account to the value of understanding which Web sites are most visited on his network and blocking those that are problematic with a single click.
“Setup of this free service is easy and bulletproof—from start to finish, the process took less than a minute,” writes Orth. “OpenDNS’s antiphishing feature is great. [It] lowers our risk by blocking many phishing and potentially dangerous Web sites, and the company maintains the list for us. If you need access to a Web site that’s currently blocked, you can simply remove that site from the blacklist.”
“The reporting feature can show us all of our top DNS queries by domain, DNS record, and IP address. From the reporting page you can easily block sites, such as ad sites, that are high on your domain list. You can also purge your records from the OpenDNS system if privacy is a concern,” he continues. “The price for OpenDNS is right, and it functions as advertised. It doesn’t get any better than that!”
The online version of this article [password-protected] can be found here:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/97146/97146.html
About OpenDNS
OpenDNS makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. Based in San Francisco, the company operates a large distributed network that powers a new kind of recursive DNS (Domain Name System) service that provides all Internet users increased security, reliability and performance. OpenDNS is thoroughly committed to building and operating the best DNS platform in the world and to improving the Internet. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: http://www.opendns.com
“As an organization we place tremendous value on the opinions of network admins and IT professionals. Our goal is to provide a service that makes their task of managing DNS easy and liberates them from the hassles of managing multiple appliances and other services,” said David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS. “To have the success of OpenDNS validated by a publication our customers trust is truly an honor.”
Writer Dan Orth applauds every aspect of the OpenDNS service, from the ease with which he created an account to the value of understanding which Web sites are most visited on his network and blocking those that are problematic with a single click.
“Setup of this free service is easy and bulletproof—from start to finish, the process took less than a minute,” writes Orth. “OpenDNS’s antiphishing feature is great. [It] lowers our risk by blocking many phishing and potentially dangerous Web sites, and the company maintains the list for us. If you need access to a Web site that’s currently blocked, you can simply remove that site from the blacklist.”
“The reporting feature can show us all of our top DNS queries by domain, DNS record, and IP address. From the reporting page you can easily block sites, such as ad sites, that are high on your domain list. You can also purge your records from the OpenDNS system if privacy is a concern,” he continues. “The price for OpenDNS is right, and it functions as advertised. It doesn’t get any better than that!”
The online version of this article [password-protected] can be found here:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/97146/97146.html
About OpenDNS
OpenDNS makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. Based in San Francisco, the company operates a large distributed network that powers a new kind of recursive DNS (Domain Name System) service that provides all Internet users increased security, reliability and performance. OpenDNS is thoroughly committed to building and operating the best DNS platform in the world and to improving the Internet. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: http://www.opendns.com
