New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service

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."

Comments

Re:Neither new nor useful

[Cytlid]

I don't know why there's so many Naysayers on here!

  I'd like to say to anyone who's badmouthed this: have you tried it? Where's your project?

  Personally, I think it's a good idea. It's important to note ... This is an option! In other words, I'm filing this in my head under "You might wanna try this...". If you don't like it, don't use it. If you do, well then good. If you think you can do better, do that too.

  I've personally had RoadRunner as an ISP for over 8 years. Sometimes their DNS is horrible. So I have run my own. At work (I work for another ISP), we provide plain vanilla DNS as best we can. Most ISPs do this. OpenDNS is "fancy" DNS, for clients. It's nice someone had the piece of mind to think of these ideas. Next time I'm at lunch with a nerdy group of friends I'm going to bring it up... to see how they might use it in their organizations and personal use. Others might want to do the same.

  I saw the article this morning. Realized it's the same guy (and team) who's been doing EveryDNS (which I use as secondary for my domains) and quickly rattled off an IM. Nice project! Not longer than 1.3 seconds later, "Thanks!". I then popped the nameserver IPs in a Windows 2000 VM and proceeded to try it out. If my sister-in-law on dialup has a problem with phishing sites, or typos, I might recommend this. If she tries it for a week and doesn't like it, so be it.

  My point is ... (and this is something I've said for years and appears on the site) ... phishing, spam, etc is a social problem not a technical one. The only way to stop these guys is the foundation in which the internet was developed on ... clever ideas and cooperation.

  So stop complaining and start cooperating. And David, keep up the good work!