> Trust them?

Quote: "OpenDNS makes money by offering clearly labeled advertisements
alongside  organic search results when the domain entered is not valid
and not a typo we can fix. OpenDNS will provide additional services on
top of its enhanced DNS service, and some of them may cost money."

While  they  likely  have  the  infrastructure  to serve requests (DNS
hardware  is  cheap,  real  expense is bandwidth, which they expect to
offset through ad rev, based on some calculation of typo frequency)...
a   corporation   who  would  choose  their  (certainly  rate-limited,
obviously  more  so  if  you're  not  linking to them over dark fiber)
service  over their own internal caching DNS would be making a strange
investment, IMO. Maybe a home user whose ISP's DNS sux?

Notably, this kind of "managed DNS" on has no impact on phishing sites
run off IP addresses alone. If all such URL formats aren't immediately
blocked  by  client-side phishing filters, then you're equally exposed
with  or  without  OpenDNS. Anyway, I vastly prefer inline web filters
like  Websense,  etc. whose phishing signatures operate equally on IPs
and  hostnames.  Such  egress  filters,  plus the ClamAV anti-phishing
signatures, approach the problem from more appropriate angles.

--Sandy


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Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
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