A domain name system helps computers translate domain names into IP addresses. Every domain name has its own unique IP address, giving it an address on the Internet. When you type in a website address ...

If you use Google's Public DNS server or OpenDNS as your DNS server, you may notice starting today that YouTube videos load faster and other web content comes in quicker. If you're using your ISP's ...

Free DNS provider OpenDNS announced a free IPv6-based DNS sandbox for IT professionals interested in experimenting with the next-generation Internet technology. The free DNS recursive service ...

Nearly 40 million Internet users will experience faster Web browsing starting today, thanks to a protocol tweak being deployed by Google, OpenDNS and several content delivery networks that allows them ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. OpenDNS, the domain name resolution service, launched a ...

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein (DJB), author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying ...

A few days ago, I wrote about the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, free software from Microsoft that can remove the conficker (a.k.a. Downadup and Kido) worm along with other malicious ...

Last week, DNS provider Dyn was unavailable for a good part of Friday. I blogged late that day about how a computer using OpenDNS was able to access a particular website, while another computer, a ...

OpenDNS has released a preview of a tool that will encrypt DNS (Domain Name System) requests between a person’s computer and the company’s lookup service, potentially blocking malicious interceptions.

When I first read that some Apple TV users were seeing significant speed-ups when they start using a local ISP Domain Name System (DNS) server instead of continuing to use one of the universal DNS ...

In my recent Editors’ Notes post on Consumer Reports’ recommendation that Mac users dump Safari because the Apple browser lacks the anti-phishing tools of Firefox and Opera, I focused on behavioral ...