OpenDNS Sounds Closed to Me

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

From: http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6092980.html

A San Francisco start-up is promising faster, safer and smarter Web
surfing--but there's a catch.

OpenDNS says its free address-lookup service makes Web sites load
faster, and that it blocks malicious, data-thieving phishing schemes
and other threats. Furthermore, the service corrects obvious typos in
URLs, sending people to the site they intended to visit, it says.

To pay for it, though, the company serves up ads and a search page,
instead of an error page, if the user enters a Web address that
doesn't exist or can't be corrected. The approach is similar one used
in an unpopular VeriSign service called Site Finder, which was pulled
soon after its launch in 2003.

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Speaking of safe DNS, anyone have any info on the
list-of-domains-that-registered-in-the-last-72-hours spam fighting DNS
idea?

-JP
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