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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."

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  1. Advantage? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Among its claimed advantages . . . Faster myspace


    Anti-fraud or not, someone's getting lied to there.
  2. This must be better by tdemark · · Score: 5, Funny

    But it has to be better, it has "Open" in its name.

  3. Re:Adverts? by kjart · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed. I enjoy how users are 'protected' from phising/spam/advertising by this service by getting more ads! It's like pushing someone out of the way of a speeding car and then punching them in the face.

  4. Re:DNS needs to be dumb, not smart by PeeAitchPee · · Score: 4, Funny

    that sounds like a job for a client-side application

    Yeah, my buddy turned me on to this great FREE program called Cool Web Search . . . it keeps track of all of my passwords too!

    On another note -- does anyone know why my PC runs so slow now? I think there's something wrong with my Yahoo.