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In This Issue
- Good News If You Have a Dynamic IP
- Your Vote Counts!
- OpenDNS in the News: The New York Times
- Meet an OpenDNSer: Michele Law
- Customer Spotlight: Vanderbilt University
Good News If You Have a Dynamic IP
The vast majority of OpenDNS users have dynamic IPs, meaning their IP address can be changed by their ISP. That's why we encourage users with dynamic IPs to download our dynamic IP client. That said, the system hasn't been perfect, and from time to time users would get messages like "Your IP address is taken by another user" when running the client — which wasn't really a great experience. For one, it meant Web content filtering settings couldn't be applied. And two, there wasn't a built-in, instant way to fix the issue!
To help address this, we've made some under-the-hood changes to free up IP addresses that were used at one point by OpenDNS users, but are no longer active. Today, if the dynamic IP client attempts to claim an IP address AND we find that the address was previously claimed by another updater client, but has not been claimed recently, we now give you the IP address. The end result? A better experience for the hundreds of thousands of OpenDNS users who have dynamic IP addresses.
If you have a dynamic IP and haven't downloaded the dynamic IP client, download it for a better OpenDNS experience.
Your Vote Counts!
While the OpenDNS moderators and staff are busy categorizing the Internet, we always need the help of the community and users like you. A few votes a day (or a week) go a long way. Voting is a great way to say "Thank You" to OpenDNS and the other users who work hard to make sure our service is optimal for everyone.
To vote on domains, simply visit Domain Tagging or go to the Community tab in your dashboard. Voting can be fun, and you may find some great sites to visit that you had never heard of! As they say in Chicago — vote early and vote often.
OpenDNS in the News: The New York Times
Ever wanted to learn more about OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch? He was asked to tell his story in the The New York Times Sunday Business section in February. In the first-person column "The Boss," David talked about his first job, why he started his first company (out of a dorm room!), and the challenges he faced when he was replaced as CEO — and then asked to return just over a year later. Read about David's story in The New York Times.
Meet an OpenDNSer: Michele Law
Building partnerships with hardware and software providers, figuring out how to scale our internal business processes and coming up with new ways to market and sell the OpenDNS Enterprise product are all in a day's work for Michele Law, OpenDNS' newly promoted Chief Operating Officer.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I'm an electrical engineer by education and training (I can still fix any home appliance or electronics myself :-)) and now run business operations for OpenDNS. I love building businesses around technology, the fast-paced chaos of start-up life, traveling the world and skiing down black-diamond runs in Tahoe.
What's a typical day in the job of the OpenDNS COO?
My days usually involve managing deals with new customers and partners, ensuring our internal business processes and systems are running efficiently, recruiting for new team members and looking for new business opportunities for OpenDNS.
What's the best thing about working at OpenDNS?
Our customers and our team at OpenDNS. It's amazing to be able to work with such enthusiastic customers and a great team that works hard and has fun together.
Learn more about who partners with OpenDNS.
Customer Spotlight: Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university and medical center with more than 12,500 full and part-time students; their faculty numbers 3,300 and the university employees more than 20,000 full and part-time staff. The diverse needs of these three different groups required a flexible solution that could be deployed in different ways for different audiences. Director of IS Salvador Ortega additionally needed a solution that didn't require hardware or agent-installs. With OpenDNS Enterprise, he's protecting students on campus from malware infections while preventing Vanderbilt staff from cyberslacking (thanks to Web content filtering). As an added benefit, managing OpenDNS Enterprise takes less time than other options, meaning Ortega and his team can tackle additional IT projects.
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