Open DNS - History

History

July 2006: OpenDNS was launched by computer scientist and entrepreneur David Ulevitch. It received venture capital funding from Minor Ventures, which is led by CNET founder Halsey Minor.
July 10, 2006: The service was covered by digg, Slashdot, and Wired News, which resulted in an increase of DNS requests from just over one million requests on July 9 to 30 million on July 11.
October 2, 2006: OpenDNS launched PhishTank, an online collaborative anti-phishing database.
Before 2007: OpenDNS was using the DNS Update API from DynDNS to handle updates from users with dynamic IPs.
June 11, 2007: OpenDNS started advanced web filtering to optionally block adult content for their free accounts.
November 5, 2008: Nand Mulchandani, former head of VMware's security group, left VMware to join OpenDNS as new CEO, replacing founder David Ulevitch, who remained as the company's chief technology officer.
July 2009: OpenDNS was funded by Sequoia Capital and Greylock.
November, 2009: David Ulevitch resumed his post as CEO of OpenDNS.
June 2010: OpenDNS launched "FamilyShield", a service designed to filter out sites with pornographic content. The service uses the DNS addresses 208.67.222.123 and 208.67.220.123.
September 1, 2010: The World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.
November 8, 2011: Founder and CEO David Ulevitch wrote an open letter to Congress about the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.

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