DNS Advantage

DNS Advantage
DNS Advantage
Type DNS Resolution Service
Founded December 2007
Website www.dnsadvantage.com

DNS Advantage is a proprietary opt-in DNS service. It does not follow internet standards—for example, the component of its service that implements typographical checking constitutes DNS hijacking.

Contents

Services

It provides the following two recursive nameserver addresses for public use, mapped to the nearest operational server location by anycast routing:

  • 156.154.70.1
  • 156.154.71.1

Current services are limited to DNS resolution and blocking of malicious or questionable websites. Independent testing of the malicious site blocking shows that the block list is limited.[1]

Planned services are:

  • Typographic correction
  • Management dashboard
  • Domain filtering 'site blocker'[2]

As of September 2009, DNS Advantage provides geographically distributed servers in 15 locations on 5 continents.
The cities hosting their servers are:

Four more locations are planned during 2008 to Canada, South America and the Middle East.[3]

History

DNS Advantage was launched on December 11, 2007 as a free DNS service. It is built on top of the infrastructure already provided by the commercial, fee based UltraDNS service. Both the free and fee based services are operated by NeuStar.[4][5][6] While UltraDNS provides DNS services to many household names such as Amazon.com, Gap, MySpace, LinkedIn and Oracle amongst others,[7] it is not clear who utilizes the free DNS Advantage service. The free service is in direct competition to OpenDNS.[8] Like its competitor, DNSAdvantage is based on closed-source software.

See also

References

  1. ^ Enterprise Networking Planet Article, Feb 13th 2008
  2. ^ DNS Advantage 'About US' webpage
  3. ^ DNS Advantage 'Node Locations' Webpage
  4. ^ DNS Advantage Media Webpage
  5. ^ ISP Planet January 22nd 2008
  6. ^ TechWorld Are free DNS services worth the cost?
  7. ^ DNS Advantage 'About US' webpage
  8. ^ Enterprise Networking Planet

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