OpenDNS.com is free DNS service provider that offers help in building a safer, faster and smarter internet.
OpenDNS was founded in July 2006 by David Ulevitch through a venture capital funding from Minor Ventures.
It has a variety of features in its system such as anti-phishing (through PhishTank), domain blocking, Recursive dns, Anycast routing, typo correction and advanced web content filtering.
It is powered by high speed and distributed network of Open DNS Server.
It provides protection from phising scams, malwares, unsolicited emails, and other unethical online practices without any DNS server download.
It is widely used in schools, major enterprises, companies and organizations worldwide to protect users from unwanted information access, provide tighter security and attain a faster browsing speed through an easy to configure dns server.
OpenDNS uses the two (2) IP addresses namely: 208.67.222.222and 208.67.222.220.
Corporate headquarter is located at 199 Fremont St, 12th Floor, San Francisco, California with CEO Nand Mulchandani.
In February 2009, OpenDNS and Kaspersky Lab Team fought against Massive Windows Conficker Worm (a.k.a. 'Downandup' or 'Kido') spreading in the internet.
OpenDNS.com was registered in September 04, 2003 through Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and a Google PageRank of 6.
It has a Forum, Blog, and Support Knowledge Base.
It is popular in the US, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Algeria, UK, Italy, China, Iran, Brazil, Germany, Canada, Philippines, Australia, and Russia.
Competitors are DNSStuff, and DynDNS.
