Adam’s Blog

Good News If You Have a Dynamic IP The vast majority of OpenDNS users have dynamic IPs, meaning their IP address can be changed by their ISP. That’s why we encourage users with dynamic IPs to download our dynamic IP client. That said, the system hasn’t been perfect, and from time to time users would [...]

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The #1 Most Blocked Site of 2010 If you had to guess what the #1 most blocked site of 2010 was, what would you pick? If you chose Facebook, you’d be right! More than 14 percent of OpenDNS users who used blacklisting to help manage Web content filtering on their networks chose to block Facebook [...]

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Best Practices for Security During the Holiday Season We love this time of year. It’s all gift-giving and holiday celebration from here. But along with the gift-giving and celebration comes an increased amount of time spent online, making purchases that require disclosure of personal information like credit card numbers. Unfortunately phishing scams and identity theft [...]

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 What does 1% of the world’s Internet users look like? Well, for starters, it looks like you guys. That’s right. A full 1 percent of all Internet users in the world are now using OpenDNS. This is an awesome milestone for the ever-growing OpenDNS community of 18 million smart, technology-conscious and Internet safety-aware people around [...]

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. 50+ Filtering Categories 2. SysAdmin Appreciation Party 3. PC World: OpenDNS Best of ‘08 4. Spotlight: Regence Blue Cross 5. Five Questions: Jonathan Yaniv ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================================================== 1. Free Web Filtering – More than 50 categories ====================================================== Have you logged into your Dashboard lately? If you have you’ve seen there are now 54 filtering [...]

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