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1. The Gift of Safe: the easiest gift you'll give this season.

2. Mark your calendar: Webinar December 18.

3. DNS-O-Matic is here!

4. Customer Spotlight: Australia Zoo.

5. 500 billion all-time DNS queries. Zero downtime.

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1. The Gift of Safe: the easiest gift you'll give this season.

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None of us have done our shopping yet, and we're not looking forward to it.

Still, with the help of our celebrity guest Chris Pirillo, we're proud to share the Gift of Safe this holiday season. Our gift has two parts:

 

First, you get to enjoy the brief, funny video Chris put together explaining the benefits of OpenDNS to his skeptical father. If you've ever done family tech support, you're going to recognize every step of the way.  ;-)

 

Second, you can share the extra protection of OpenDNS with your friends and family, all via a simple email. Who will you give it to?

 

Watch the video and share the gift: http://www.giftofsafe.com/

 

(Note: Chris Pirillo is a geek among geeks: technologist, television host, magazine columnist, blogger, author, and entrepreneur. You may know him from

Lockergnome: http://www.youtube.com/user/lockergnome)

 

 

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2. Mark your calendar: Webinar December 18.

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Pencil us in! Tuesday, December 8 at 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time CEO David Ulevitch will be live on the Internet, walking you through the ABCs of OpenDNS. He'll show you everything you need to know about the service and answer your questions. If you've ever wanted to know how to block Web proxies, or set a different custom message for the blocked page than the one on the Guide page, this is your chance.

 

Register here: http://www.opendns.com/webinar

 

 

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3. DNS-O-Matic is here!

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As OpenDNS members, you know how useful it is to customize your DNS preferences, whether for content filtering, statistics or just a company logo on the Guide page. For those with dynamic IP address networks, you've taken extra steps to keep OpenDNS updated even when your ISP changes your IP address.

 

We want dynamic IP support to be much, much easier. So we've created DNS-O-Matic to give you a free and easy way to announce your dynamic IP changes to multiple services with a single update.

 

For instance, if you have hostnames with DynDNS, ChangeIP, No-IP or a score of other services, you can send one update to DNS-O-Matic and we'll update all your services at once. As with PhishTank, we've taken a collaborative approach to this free service. Network services providers, software developers and hardware manufacturers are all participating -- and we're adding more all the time.

 

Got a dynamic IP network? Try DNS-O-Matic today.

http://www.dnsomatic.com/

 

More details in this blog post:

http://blog.opendns.com/2007/12/02/announcing-dns-o-matic/

 

 

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4. Customer Spotlight: Australia Zoo.

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Australia Zoo spans more than 60 acres and houses more than 1,000 native and exotic animals. It's the home of the famed Crocodile Hunter and employs hundreds of animal experts. It's also a happy OpenDNS customer. "It saves needless Internet usage which in Australia can amount to sizable excess usage bills," said Ben Johns, network administrator for Australia Zoo. "Plus having a service that's available to all of our sites and remote users saves us from buying filtering software and appliances."

 

Like many OpenDNS customers, the Zoo has two name servers within its network that all workstations and servers use for internal and external lookups. Johns set all to forward external requests to OpenDNS. He also set each of the Zoo's remote/VPN users to use OpenDNS so they don't have to worry about changing settings when traveling.

 

"The service has been exemplary and unfailable, the technical support is prompt and courteous and the features and statistics are abundant," said Johns. "I like the simplicity of having a single DNS service instead of using one for each ISP. While that was enough for me to begin using OpenDNS it's the extras that have made it a valuable service for a cost conscious organization like Australia Zoo."

 

Thanks Ben!

 

 

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5. 500 billion all-time DNS queries. Zero downtime.

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It seems like just yesterday we were telling you about our 300 billionth DNS request. Would you believe we're already at 500 billion, and 600 billion is just days away? The good news for you is this: the more people using OpenDNS, the faster Web pages load. So tell your friends.  :)

 

 

Happy Holidays from the OpenDNS family,

 

 

Allison Rhodes

Community Manager

allison@opendns.com

 

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