OpenDNS, which provides users with a safer and more reliable Domain Name lookup service has hit a huge milestone. When I say huge, I mean really really huge. They served 20 billion DNS queries in a single day, which is quite huge considering that back in April 2009 they had reached a 10 Billion milestone.

So has the Internet exploded? Or, are we just seeing more and more users switching to public DNS servers like OpenDNS and Google DNS ^[1]?

OpenDNS has come for some flak for the advertisements they display when a domain lookup is unsuccessful, this is not the same with Google DNS. It would be interesting to see the figures of both Google DNS and OpenDNS side by side in a month or so. However, that aside, this is a really really huge achievement for OpenDNS and kudos to them for it.

You can read more about it in the OpenDNS newsletter ^[2]. Don’t forget to also catch up on the OpenDNS founders response to the launch of Google DNS ^[3].