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New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the does-it-actually-work dept.

knownsense writes "A new DNS system to foil spammers, abusers, and other ills of the Internet is around the corner, reports Wired. It claims to be more user-friendly than your ISP's DNS. Among its claimed advantages . . . Faster myspace(!?), coordination with spamhaus, and typo-squatter squashing. The actual service is called OpenDNS."

2 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. Didn't RTFA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...but WTF is with "faster myspace". Mark article -1, irrelevant. What happened to news for nerds, or stuff that matters?

    Oh, f1rst p0st.

  2. Coordination with Spamhaus? Count me OUT... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Spamhaus is the most unreliable blackhole list I've ever seem. I'm amazed at how many people take that damn thing seriously. Their service is rife with collateral damage and Linford and his posse just don't care. In fact, there are at least two of his goons in the US that accept bribes on his behalf to get off their list, assuming you're not the most egregious spammer on earth that is. I had a run-in with these thugs once. After the six month saga of clandestine phone calls and back-alley dealings to get off their SBL/XBL, I tell everybody to not trust Spamhaus as far as they can throw it. Terrible people, absolutely terrible.