OpenDNS People-Powers Web Filtering

David Ulevitch thinks network administrators have better things to do than manage expensive web filtering solutions; he also believes 'free' sounds good for a price tag. OpenDNS to improve responsiveness for web queries, they can now enable filtering via a community-based domain tagging system. If this reminds you of manage web filtering through their OpenDNS dashboard. Numerous domains have been tagged already, and the community will continue tagging them to improve the quality of the filter.

Ulevitch already considered the potential negative side to community tagging. Using a model similar to that of PhishTank, the more accurate a tagger's vote for a site, the more weight that vote gets on other domains.

This keeps potential smart alecks from tagging adult sites as being healthcare or fashion related, for example. The majority of taggers will label content accurately, and their opinions will matter more when tagging future domains.

To Ulevitch, using OpenDNS saves someone the "protection money" they would pay for licensing and support of a filtering solution. With OpenDNS a hosted option, one also doesn't incur the hardware cost of a device to handle the web filter.