27 Billion Queries Served: OpenDNS Sees Record Traffic
They’re currently seeing 27 billion queries per day – a massive number – and they’ve just hit up to seven times the average number of of account creations thus far. Why? Well, mostly because Pogue wrote about them and did a little video. I think the real draw is the free parental controsl. As we enter an era when, in short, almost everything on the Internet is porn, it’s nice to know there’s a way to limit a child’s browsing to a few pertinent sites. Basic filtering is free while more powerful filtering options are $9.95 a year for families.
Generally it’s nice to see a service like OpenDNS succeed. DNS is so boring that being able to convince thousands of people to reconfigure their computers to use a new service is a feat worthy of praise. Now if we could just get our parents to stop downloading IE toolbars and then we’ll be set.