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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. oingo.com is the source of much typo squatting by winkydink · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Note that a search on Google for oingo.com returns nothing. Try, say, Yahoo. See what you get back.

    Now why, do you ask, does Google not have any info on oingo,com? Well, whois tells us that oingo.com is owned by Google.

    Don't be evil. Yeah, right.

    --

    "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey

    1. Re:oingo.com is the source of much typo squatting by Ougarou · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Google is already evil:
      • They are domain squatters and facilitators of it
      • They allow large amount of AdSense ads leading to sites to rip you off (selling single page PDF files for $30+)
      • It's hard to report copyrighted material on Google Video
      Greed has taken over, slowly but surely.
  2. Danger to Net Neutrality? by rickatnight11 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Although I don't know if this was the intention, something about this article gets my Net Neutrality Sense tingling. Couldn't any particular organization take advantage of this with enough money, or couldn't domains just start paying to obtain priority?