Re: Open DNS

On 7/19/06, Dave Hall <dave-slg@dnh.sk.ca> wrote:

> I'm not sure what the intent of OpenDNS is,
> they have no revenue stream from their service

http://www.opendns.com/faq/#how_does_opendns_make_money

"How does OpenDNS make money? OpenDNS makes money by offering clearly
labeled advertisements alongside search results on error pages.
OpenDNS will provide additional services on top of its enhanced DNS
service."

Error pages only show up for very wrong entries, BTW :)

e.g. as per http://www.opendns.com/what/

"We make corrections for common spelling mistakes, on the fly. That
means when you are typing fast and type yahoo.cmo instead of yahoo.com
you still get there. No annoying pop-ups or evil spyware installed
because you made a typo. Things just work."

but if I were to type http://qazxswedc.com/ I'd get one of their error pages.

CK
Received on Wed Jul 19 12:55:11 2006