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In This Issue
- What does 1% of the world's Internet users look like?
- Get to know CacheCheck
- Take OpenDNS to Work in April
- What's new in OpenDNS Parental Controls
- Have ideas for how OpenDNS can be better? Tell us.
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 the world.
OpenDNS provides an array of features that make your Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. But these benefits are only afforded to OpenDNS users. Know someone who isn't yet using OpenDNS? Tell them about it.
We're pretty excited that the OpenDNS community accounts for 1 percent of the world's Internet users and hope you are, too.
Get to know CacheCheck
Have you met CacheCheck? Oh, you haven't? Wow. We're so rude for not making an introduction sooner.
CacheCheck is a first-of-its-kind tool that allows you to manually refresh the OpenDNS caches. Often times when you can't get to a Web site — but you know it exists — it's because the site has made some changes and the IP addresses haven't yet updated. The site is there, but the DNS doesn't know how to find it.
If this is, in fact, the reason a site isn't loading for you, all you need to do is visit CacheCheck, enter the domain you're trying to visit, and voila!
Yes another example of an OpenDNS innovation that gives you more control of your Internet experience.
Check it out.
Take OpenDNS to Work in April
April is Take OpenDNS to Work month!
Here's the gist: You use OpenDNS at home for a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable Internet. But have you ever thought about how much your company could benefit from OpenDNS, too?
If you're the IT guy or Systems Administrator, it's a slam dunk. Enable OpenDNS to boost network performance, and perhaps try some of of our security functionality as well. Our Web content filtering meets the needs of Fortune 500 companies around the world, and we're confident it can meet yours. If you haven't yet taken us to work, give it a try.
If you're not the IT guy, we'd love your help. Send him or her this email. It's got all of the important details about why OpenDNS is the perfect service for your organization. Then let us know what happens so we can thank you.
The more organizations around the world using OpenDNS, the better a place the Internet will be. Thanks in advance!
What's new in OpenDNS Parental Controls
For parents looking to secure their Internet, it doesn't get much better than OpenDNS Parental Controls. All you need to do to turn it on is log into your account and choose the categories of content, or individual Web sites, you want to block. If you want to make changes you just log into your account, over the Internet, from anywhere. You can remotely manage the computers at home anywhere you have Internet access.
We're always working to make OpenDNS Parental Controls better. Recently we've added:
- A new category: Academic Fraud. Excellent for parents looking to keep their kids on the up and up, this category blocks Web sites that promote all types of academic fraud. Term paper buying and selling, cheats and the like.
- Thousands of new proxy and anonymizer sites that are often used to bypass filtering settings.
If you're a Parental Controls user and haven't yet enabled these categories, give 'em a try.
Have ideas for how OpenDNS can be better? Tell us.
Everything we build is designed with you in mind. We have ideas for cool new features, but we'd also love to hear yours.
The best place to share your great ideas is IdeaBank in the OpenDNS Community. As an account holder you have free reign there and we encourage you to speak up and speak up often. Some of the most loved OpenDNS features were born in IdeaBank and the entire team pays close attention.
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